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Please ensure that the majority of your posts in this thread are model related - a theme of model discussion needs to run throughout.
Some off topic chat and reactions are ok, but please use other, more relevant threads for entirely off-topic chat (such as snow reports, met office forecasts and general chat/moans about the weather or this winter).

For more no banter and just model discussion please head to the new focused model thread - this is also a great place to post (or cross post) your longer model summaries or thoughts around the models.

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  • Location: Mill Corner East Sussex, 55m asl
  • Weather Preferences: snow,thunder,tornados
  • Location: Mill Corner East Sussex, 55m asl
1 minute ago, RAIN RAIN RAIN said:

Kablamoo!!! 

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Day 10 by any chance

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  • Location: South Croydon
  • Location: South Croydon
1 minute ago, feb1991blizzard said:

As long as the majority cluster signals cold you are ok, they are tweaked to show different outcomes because of their low DEFINITION, 

Well partly and the fact that the initial input data is tweaked for the ensemble members (control excluded).

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  • Location: Hertfordshire
  • Weather Preferences: SNOW AND FREEZING TEMPS
  • Location: Hertfordshire
1 minute ago, snowrye said:

Day 10 by any chance

Errr yer why , they always verify .

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  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
  • Weather Preferences: Heavy disruptive snowfall.
  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
2 minutes ago, Trom said:

Well partly and the fact that the initial input data is tweaked for the ensemble members (control excluded).

When i say OK, i don't mean its 100% going to verify of course, just that there is no panic at that point, i would rather have 35 showing cold, than 15 plus the op.

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  • Location: Liphook
  • Location: Liphook

There is considerable differences in the GFS ensembles even at 96hrs, indeed I'd say a slight majority now have a slight easterly influence  by 120hrs. Nothing too extreme but could be a snowy set-up for a time for the SE as that low sinks southwards.

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  • Location: Manchester
  • Weather Preferences: Sunny and warm in the Summer, cold and snowy in the winter, simples!
  • Location: Manchester

When this is the mean at 24h...

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I will give us a 50/50 chance of cold 

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  • Location: Weymouth, Dorset
  • Location: Weymouth, Dorset

Very good ens all round at the moment.

Seen a marked dip for Feb 1st enough times on them in recent days to make me think this is a trend, and could be a date to ring on the calendar.

Maybe as the date winter proper got going??

 

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  • Location: Waddingham, Lincolnshire. (9m asl)
  • Weather Preferences: Anything newsworthy, so long as it's not in the Daily Express
  • Location: Waddingham, Lincolnshire. (9m asl)

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Just realised that if I’d have spent the same amount of hours doing overtime at work this winter that I’ve spent gawping at Siberian-sourced weather porn on the NW forum, I could have afforded a week in Lapland dressed in an elf costume throwing snowballs at Santa. 

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  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)

12z EC a mild outlier day 9 for London, makes sense looking at the milder SW flow then

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  • Location: Hayward’s Heath - home, Brighton/East Grinstead - work.
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and storms
  • Location: Hayward’s Heath - home, Brighton/East Grinstead - work.

P6 out on its own by 1st feb. All others below -5°c and many look to be diving below -10°c by the 2nd

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  • Location: Nr Chelmsford, Essex
  • Weather Preferences: Hurricanes, Thunderstorms and blizzards please!
  • Location: Nr Chelmsford, Essex

Very decent mean at 204, looks much 'tighter' than the 12z

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  • Location: Lytchett Matravers - 301 ft ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Snowy Winters, Torrential Storm Summers
  • Location: Lytchett Matravers - 301 ft ASL

Bit of a pub special that! Cracking stuff and not the first time we’ve seen the gfs chuck that sort of run out in the low res over the past couple of days. It’s picking up on something for sure, let’s hope that’s the watered down version ???

That reminded me of march 2018 but with staying power!! 

How cold

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  • Location: South Croydon
  • Location: South Croydon
3 minutes ago, feb1991blizzard said:

When i say OK, i don't mean its 100% going to verify of course, just that there is no panic at that point, i would rather have 35 showing cold, than 15 plus the op.

I agree about the no panic it's just that I'd rather see a cold op supported by the ensembles rather than an operational that's at variance with it's ensembles.  Hopefully, you are correct and the ECM op moves into alignment with the ensembles.  My unease is also compounded by the fact that it's the ECM op that is so out of kilter with its ensembles and GFS output.

Another way of viewing it that the volatility caused by Trop/Strat interplay is having a major effect on the reliability of the model output and that higher definition compounds this uncertainty.  We did see all models struggle significantly with the quick trop impact last year.  This year's been a more normal SSW impact (i.e. slower) but we know it's impacting shortly. 

Fingers crossed.

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  • Location: Hayward’s Heath - home, Brighton/East Grinstead - work.
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and storms
  • Location: Hayward’s Heath - home, Brighton/East Grinstead - work.

Gfs op is the coldest member 3rd feb by a country mile. Outlier unfortunately 

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  • Location: Delph, historic West Riding of Yorkshire, 225m asl
  • Weather Preferences: All 4 seasons and a good mixture of everything and anything!
  • Location: Delph, historic West Riding of Yorkshire, 225m asl

image.thumb.png.0277e1af24c8d45f82136d4534b47124.pngHmm something does look a tad out of place here, unfortunately. 

 

Still though, some good signs here and there today. 

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  • Location: Hertfordshire
  • Weather Preferences: SNOW AND FREEZING TEMPS
  • Location: Hertfordshire
5 minutes ago, chionomaniac said:

Gfs op is the coldest member 3rd feb by a country mile. Outlier unfortunately 

Don’t be silly it’s the trend setter they will all follow in the next few days

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  • Location: West Sussex
  • Weather Preferences: Extreme cold & snow
  • Location: West Sussex
6 minutes ago, chionomaniac said:

Gfs op is the coldest member 3rd feb by a country mile. Outlier unfortunately TRENDSETTER

Tidied for you Chio...

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  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
  • Weather Preferences: Heavy disruptive snowfall.
  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
Just now, CSC said:

That GFS 18z run, despite it being extraordinary, ITS NOT AN OUTLIER for most of the run!

Fantastic stuff that! Mean temperature beginning of February is below 1ºC all the way to the south coast!

Yes although i is a big outlier for the part of the run where its a real stonker!!

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  • Location: Gillingham, Kent
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, Thunderstorms,
  • Location: Gillingham, Kent

The 18z Op had -15c uppers over us, I'm not surprised it's a huge outlier!

That's one hell of a cross polar flow on the gfsp, the Strat split finally splitting the Trop Vortex too!

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