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Hunt For Cold: Model Discussion - Heading Into Christmas


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If you're hunting for cold potential in the model output, this thread is for you. But if you'd like to look more widely at the models, please head over to the general model discussion thread.

This is a model related thread, so a general, frequent theme of the model output is a given, but it will not be strictly enforced:

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  • Location: Mid Welsh/English Border
  • Weather Preferences: Snow! Exciting weather!
  • Location: Mid Welsh/English Border
12 minutes ago, Steve Murr said:

Just for reference what area are you referring to as the GFS doesnt model any area better than the Euros blended

In this scenario the NOAA write the GFS off saying its to too far East - so your betting on the heavy underdog...

 

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  • Location: Wantage, Oxon
  • Weather Preferences: Hot, cold!
  • Location: Wantage, Oxon

I haven't posted much recently, and if I have it's largely about the uncertainty in the strat.  That uncertainty is reducing now, but it doesn't seem to be helpful in resolving what happens down here in the 10+ day timescale.

Main models at T144 tonight:

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ECM best, GFS and ICON runners up, no point going beyond T144, they haven't a clue.

Still maybe a couple of days before the fog clears, but if we are indeed talking about a not perfect downwelling of the strat pattern, coupled with MJO forcing from the trop, then as I said in a post a few days ago it's squeaky bum time, but the sphincter holds tonight, in my view!  I think 48 hours from now should confirm this post SSW spell as a goer or not, I'm still 60% for goer!

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  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
  • Weather Preferences: Heavy disruptive snowfall.
  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
45 minutes ago, Evening Star said:

Can anyone clarify what actually causes a SSW?  I know the stratosphere is stratified with cooler air closer to Earth and warmer air higher up near the ozone layer (UV light from the Sun is absorbed in this region) but I am puzzled by what mechanism could cause such a dramatic change in temperature.

EDIT: Okay so after a little search on the Met Office site they mention the breaking of waves in the Polar Jet that then cause the air in the stratosphere to collapse.  Quite strange how this doesn't occur every winter.  

Nobody seems to mention the Brewer Dobson Circulation any more, its a model (not a computer one) to show how Ozone is produced at the equator and is transported to the poles, the stronger the circulation and more Ozone, means a warmer stratosphere (i think).

 

 

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6 minutes ago, feb1991blizzard said:

Nobody seems to mention the Brewer Dobson Circulation any more, its a model (not a computer one) to show how Ozone is produced at the equator and is transported to the poles, the stronger the circulation and more Ozone, means a warmer stratosphere (i think).

 

 

Never heard of that but looks like it could be a good bit of stuff to study.

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  • Location: st albans
  • Location: st albans

Certainly a less vigorous Atlantic on the 12z ecm suite .... we still end up with a broad low euro mslp  anomoly ........but the clusters will reveal more ......the end week 2 on both gems and eps look unsettled with a capital U ....a few well placed wedges wouldn’t go amiss ........

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  • Location: uxbridge middlesex(- also Bampton oxfordshire
  • Weather Preferences: blizzard conditions. ice days
  • Location: uxbridge middlesex(- also Bampton oxfordshire

The overide/modeling of trop/strat responces..being miss-interp imo..

The warming and placements of the disolving pv-at the layers..are confused and miss aligned..as the basis are fraught..as the notions of asian/siberian/alaskan, geop pots are missing the format..by way of position!

And with ckear and concise secondary warm @the strat  are also not being fed through..YET!..

DOWNWELLING is indeed of rapid responce..and troughing..'again' imo miss-placed via action and pulses.

The polar vortex is under increadable strain...already..

And with melt flux happenings, and a paused reckoning of a forming 2nd'ery warm even the polar notes..wafz are confused!..

The massive amp..of hp format and missing of a link...are not noted..im sure!!!..

And as the gain cements..im sure so will 2 outs....

Through cross..

And on a euro window...the ssts..are playing ball now ..also!!!

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  • Location: Windsor
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and cold
  • Location: Windsor
1 hour ago, More Snow said:

Anybody else get that feeling that the GFS is about to perform a massive flip in about 3hrs time and this place will go into melt down once more. its normally the way with real deep cold in the UK, the big guns run around blind as a bat for days only for ECM to pick up the baton and then the others jump in line just in time for the ECM to have a wobble before the way forward emerges, and then we all start the uppers debate the shift west shift east with each run then about when the cold spell is 3 days out the hunt for the breakdown starts. 

The SSW promises some snaw to some for sure ❄️❄️ The ensembles look promising too for snaw ❄️❄️❄️

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  • Location: Scouthead Oldham 295mASL
  • Location: Scouthead Oldham 295mASL
5 minutes ago, bluearmy said:

Certainly a less vigorous Atlantic on the 12z ecm suite .... we still end up with a broad low euro mslp  anomoly ........but the clusters will reveal more ......the end week 2 on both gems and eps look unsettled with a capital U ....a few well placed wedges wouldn’t go amiss ........

Not convinced 120-168 is a done deal yet..

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  • Location: Home: Bournemouth (Iford) Work: Eastleigh
  • Location: Home: Bournemouth (Iford) Work: Eastleigh
14 minutes ago, northwestsnow said:

TBH EC 46 tonight is a real biggie- it will almost certainly play a big part in Exeters update tomorrow, finger crossed..

It won't determine what actually happens though. The real biggies always get to t+72 with cross model support. 

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  • Location: Slovenia (Maribor)
  • Location: Slovenia (Maribor)
19 minutes ago, carinthian said:

Last one from me for 6 weeks before I leave in the morning for Canada . Our experts we use in resort have told me that todays upper air soundings over the Russian Arctic are showing Easterlies now established at 10mb level.  They expect this flow direction to run down to the troposphere in the coming days ( the start of the reversing the westerly flow for much of Northern Europe including the British Isles ). This will impact on the models in the next 48 hours. So hopefully some good looking winter charts for you lot just around the corner.  Will be watching from far a field with great interest. Bye for now and a happy New Year to all our forum members, young and old ! 

C

Thank you buddy for this information. We can only hope for the best.

In the evening runs I find the UKMO model quite interesting at 144 h. Statistical comparision has shown us that if we compare the GFS, ECMWF, UKMO models together, that UKMO model was even the second on the list right behind the ECMWF model. The GFS came just third on the list. It also depends on the situation.

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  • Location: Home: Bournemouth (Iford) Work: Eastleigh
  • Location: Home: Bournemouth (Iford) Work: Eastleigh
42 minutes ago, Steve Murr said:

ECM Mean 144 V GFS 144 Mean shows the eastward bias of the GFS, also if you scroll through the GFS at 144 they are all over the shop!

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maybe ECM's westward bias? Let's be honest, we would have had a lot more snow over the years if the GFS could just be ignored or it always simply caught up with the ECM.

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  • Location: Windermere 120m asl
  • Location: Windermere 120m asl

State of flux is the best term to apply to the models at the moment = so expect further probable wild swings in the days ahead as they get to grips with the projected flushing out of the zonal winds - which are forecast to collapse. 

GFS has flipped quite a bit in the past few runs, 12z forecasts showing significant amplification with a southerly tracking - plausible, but perhaps too must gusto to it, and too much easterly bias. ECM showing a 13-15 Dec scenario with the block holding firm against a weakening trough to our west. A middle ground scenario would bring fairly typical January fayre, temps about average with something wintry for the north.

The atlantic is very fragile right now at the time of year when it should be most rampant, and typically we turn a corner come early Jan, when high pressure has an easier time in overriding it - and ever more so as we move further through winter..

 

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  • Location: Windermere 120m asl
  • Location: Windermere 120m asl
1 minute ago, damianslaw said:

State of flux is the best term to apply to the models at the moment = so expect further probable wild swings in the days ahead as they get to grips with the projected flushing out of the zonal winds - which are forecast to collapse, from a very weak base state relative to the time of year anyhow.

GFS has flipped quite a bit in the past few runs, 12z forecasts showing significant amplification with a southerly tracking - plausible, but perhaps too must gusto to it, and too much easterly bias. ECM showing a 13-15 Dec scenario with the block holding firm against a weakening trough to our west. A middle ground scenario would bring fairly typical January fayre, temps about average with something wintry for the north.

The atlantic is very fragile right now at the time of year when it should be most rampant, and typically we turn a corner come early Jan, when high pressure has an easier time in overriding it - and ever more so as we move further through winter..

 

 

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  • Location: Ski Amade / Pongau Region. Somtimes Skipton UK
  • Weather Preferences: Northeasterly Blizzard and sub zero temperatures.
  • Location: Ski Amade / Pongau Region. Somtimes Skipton UK
2 minutes ago, Redbull165 said:

Thank you buddy for this information. We can only hope for the best.

In the evening runs I find the UKMO model quite interesting at 144 h. Statistical comparision has shown us that if we compare the GFS,ECMWF,UKMO models together, that UKMO model was even the second on the list right behind the ECMWF model. It also depends on the situation.

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Yes it is interesting. Certainly has the coldest air massing just to the east. Where the high relocates will be important. GFS/ECM seem likely it to sink it a bit and cut off further cold air advection into Europe /Eastern Britain. UKMO positioning looks the best placed for it to develop further towards Scandinavia , then Bingo. However, we know this can change in the morning.

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  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
  • Weather Preferences: Heavy disruptive snowfall.
  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.

Icon 18z  is absolutely beautiful synoptically but none of these runs are going on to deliver, we will never know whether this one would or not as it terminates at 120.

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  • Location: Hoyland,barnsley,south yorkshire(134m asl)
  • Weather Preferences: severe storms,snow wind and ice
  • Location: Hoyland,barnsley,south yorkshire(134m asl)

There is a big difference in just 3 hours on the 18z ICON at 96 with better height's into Greenland

96 18z v 99 12z

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  • Location: Hoyland,barnsley,south yorkshire(134m asl)
  • Weather Preferences: severe storms,snow wind and ice
  • Location: Hoyland,barnsley,south yorkshire(134m asl)

At 120 and the Scandi trough looks like cutting back SW.

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  • Location: Wantage, Oxon
  • Weather Preferences: Hot, cold!
  • Location: Wantage, Oxon

Actually this is a decent run from ICON. T120 Z500 and jet stream 

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Does anyone else see the polar bear in the second one??

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