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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: Somerset/Devon border, 220masl
  • Weather Preferences: See if you can guess
  • Location: Somerset/Devon border, 220masl

Day 10 (+240) ECM chart:

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May I ask, since I'm not a total expert, how 'good' this is for us?

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  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
  • Weather Preferences: Heavy disruptive snowfall.
  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
3 minutes ago, chionomaniac said:

I guess it’s for fun. We know that, but it’s a bit like when we dream of spending lottery winnings. And it is model related so is perfectly entitled to be in this thread.

I do agree with your comments in the main - wrt posting snow depth charts, but the ECM ones are so obviously falsified (Nick L has the real ones and they never correlate), so its not like you are hoping the pattern verifies - even if it does, you wont see that much snow, so its almost like planning to spend a billion pound if you win the lottery, as opposed to 8 million.

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  • Location: Castle Black, the Wall, the North
  • Weather Preferences: Spanish Plumes, Blizzards, Severe Frosts :-)
  • Location: Castle Black, the Wall, the North

The Gfs 12z clearly hasn't read the script for February!!:gathering:

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  • Location: leicester
  • Location: leicester
6 minutes ago, bluearmy said:

Note the little lows popping up on the occlusion at T126 ...could get even more interesting ........

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I Still think midlands and wales shall be sweet spot!!

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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.
2 minutes ago, feb1991blizzard said:

I do agree with your comments in the main - wrt posting snow depth charts, but the ECM ones are so obviously falsified (Nick L has the real ones and they never correlate), so its not like you are hoping the pattern verifies - even if it does, you wont see that much snow, so its almost like planning to spend a billion pound if you win the lottery, as opposed to 8 million.

Any chart may or may not verify. I take all snow charts with a pinch of salt, but the point is that any member can post any model related chart, so let’s move on.

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  • Location: ipswich <east near the a14> east weather watch
  • Location: ipswich <east near the a14> east weather watch

all i got  to say these  will give us some sleepiness  nights!!!

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  • Location: STEVENAGE, HERTS (100M ASL)
  • Location: STEVENAGE, HERTS (100M ASL)

Just going by the amount of precipitation you would expect to fall from a low of that depth I expect more snow than being shown on those depth charts. IMO 10cm around the sweet spot and widely 6-10cm around it. More snow is showing than expected for Thursday though 

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  • Location: uxbridge middlesex(- also Bampton oxfordshire
  • Weather Preferences: blizzard conditions. ice days
  • Location: uxbridge middlesex(- also Bampton oxfordshire
1 minute ago, shaky said:

I Still think midlands and wales shall be sweet spot!!

I dont..

And it maybe-an even keel..@southern peripherals.

With the slaged'm4 and down..4 the 1st feature.

 

 

Northern france is the catch point now..

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  • Location: Bournville Birmingham
  • Weather Preferences: Hot n cold
  • Location: Bournville Birmingham
3 minutes ago, tinybill said:

all i got  to say these  will give us some sleepiness  nights!!!

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yes cos i would be looking at lamposts all night! 

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  • Location: HANDSWORTH BIRMINGHAM B21. 130MASL. 427FT.
  • Weather Preferences: WINTERS WITH HEAVY DISRUPTIVE SNOWFALL AVRAGE SPRING HOT SUMMERS.
  • Location: HANDSWORTH BIRMINGHAM B21. 130MASL. 427FT.

 wow what an evening cross model agreement for the up  coming  the snow event just getting a little excited now what’s more Villa won today 2 one so all in all it’s a good Saturday night those who will get the snow well enjoy your self 

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  • Location: Hull
  • Weather Preferences: Cold Snowy Winters, Hot Thundery Summers
  • Location: Hull

Hello, its been an eventful couple of days hasn't it?

12z swingometers for January 31st are now in almost full agreement that we will be in a rather cold/cold situation. A lot going on up until then we have some very windy weather tomorrow as well as some borderline sleet/snow up here. Tuesday looks fascinating though and given the ECM,GFS parallel and UKMO now show this low we have to be increasingly confident that a snow event is looming on the horizon though still a lot to resolve before we get there.

Then we have the low on Thursday which the GFS and ECM are in some agreement on. It's arrival is slower however whilst on the UKMO it is far weaker!. I would side with the GFS and ECM here as they both show the deeper low. Situations like this are very difficult to forecast though and sudden changes to the output may occur. Very little of the GFS ens support the UKMO so far but P8 for example is similar.

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For early February things are still highly uncertain as we may expect and what happens early on with have a butterfly effect on later so I would expect further big swings, especially to colder solutions if later this week we are still in cold air. P1 has more lows bumping into cold air again.

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Next week we see a big cold pool leaving the US which means we will see some deep lows spawn off NE Canada (just look at the UKMO T144 for example). Hopefully any lows in the region can be sent to the west of Greenland to help build a block. Elsewhere good to see Australia getting a heatwave reprieve though the arctic looks to be turning a bit milder again.

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  • Location: Hertfordshire
  • Weather Preferences: SNOW AND FREEZING TEMPS
  • Location: Hertfordshire
7 minutes ago, Frosty. said:

The Gfs 12z clearly hasn't read the script for February!!:gathering:

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Don’t worry frosty that will all correct west as we get closer . That big purple blob will be over us .

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  • Location: Bournville Birmingham
  • Weather Preferences: Hot n cold
  • Location: Bournville Birmingham
3 minutes ago, syed2878 said:

 wow what an evening cross model agreement for the up  coming  the snow event just getting a little excited now what’s more Villa won today 2 one so all in all it’s a good Saturday night those who will get the snow well enjoy your self 

nice outlook. But... SOTV

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  • Location: HILL OF TARA IRELAND
  • Weather Preferences: SNOW ICE
  • Location: HILL OF TARA IRELAND
Just now, Steve Murr said:

ECM mean is a little further North than the operational

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Could be interesting for members further north! 

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  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
  • Weather Preferences: Thunder, snow, heat, sunshine...
  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.

Manyana, manyana, manyana...Some of the models are telling me it will snow tomorrow!:yahoo:

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  • Location: Frankley, Birmingham 250masl
  • Weather Preferences: the weather extremes in general but my favourites are snow & thunderstorms
  • Location: Frankley, Birmingham 250masl
2 minutes ago, Sweatyman said:

nice outlook. But... SOTV

Couldn’t agree more KRO!! 

Anyway I wouldn’t pay to much attention to precipitation charts at this stage as they will swing in roundabouts constantly. Worry about that nearer the time.

what I do no though at this point is that next week is looking quite exciting 

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

Moyenne time!

Never thought it would be worth posting a mean chart at T72, but here goes from ECM

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Looks like the channel is about the mid point of the uncertainty re the trajectory of the key low, and that's good.

Less good news on the potential storm T144

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I think this might not happen, but the higher res op runs will decide that, I think.

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  • Location: Reigate Hill
  • Weather Preferences: Anything
  • Location: Reigate Hill

The ECM op compared to the mean for Tuesday's low:

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  • Location: Ynys Mon - Cymru (Isle of Anglesey - Wales)
  • Weather Preferences: Whatever Mother Nature cares to throw my way
  • Location: Ynys Mon - Cymru (Isle of Anglesey - Wales)
9 minutes ago, Sweatyman said:

nice outlook. But... SOTV

Ouch that's a bit harsh ....perhaps SOB ,.  Snow on Birmingham  

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  • Location: Bristol
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms and Snowstorms
  • Location: Bristol
9 minutes ago, IDO said:

The ECM op compared to the mean for Tuesday's low:

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Do you have corresponding 850hpa temps for the ECM Mean for that particular time?

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  • Location: Addington
  • Weather Preferences: Love a bit of snow
  • Location: Addington
22 minutes ago, tight isobar said:

I dont..

And it maybe-an even keel..@southern peripherals.

With the slaged'm4 and down..4 the 1st feature.

 

 

Northern france is the catch point now..

Totally agree 

touch and go if even Home Counties get a dusting @tight isobar

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  • Location: Banbury
  • Location: Banbury
24 minutes ago, Tim Bland said:

Just going by the amount of precipitation you would expect to fall from a low of that depth I expect more snow than being shown on those depth charts. IMO 10cm around the sweet spot and widely 6-10cm around it. More snow is showing than expected for Thursday though 

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Probably a fair assessment , people expecting " carnage"  wont get it from Tuesday's feature 

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  • Location: Reigate Hill
  • Weather Preferences: Anything
  • Location: Reigate Hill
Just now, Ben Sainsbury said:

Do you have corresponding 850hpa temps for the ECM Mean for that particular time?

Yes:

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Both GEM and GEFS have the mean low at T72 in N France.

So no real clarity, though siding with the ops may be, at this range, the best guess?

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  • Location: Bournemouth
  • Weather Preferences: Dry mild or snow winter. Hot and humid summer.
  • Location: Bournemouth
30 minutes ago, tight isobar said:

I dont..

And it maybe-an even keel..@southern peripherals.

With the slaged'm4 and down..4 the 1st feature.

 

 

Northern france is the catch point now..

FWIW and let’s be honest it’s a punt but looking at the output I would like to be in the north Cotswolds. Stow on the wolds maybe. I think it’s more likely to be all snow.  Or  snowshill just down the road

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