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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: Walsall Wood, Walsall, West Midlands 145m ASL
  • Location: Walsall Wood, Walsall, West Midlands 145m ASL
1 minute ago, feb1991blizzard said:

True, but given we have past solar min now, we could do with a decent one soon, just to steady the fears.

Hopefully so 

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  • Location: Sedgley 175metres above sea level
  • Weather Preferences: Any kind of extremes. But the more snow the better.
  • Location: Sedgley 175metres above sea level
1 minute ago, Don said:

I’ll give it until next weekend before properly throwing the towel in!

Bloody hell Don you must have a hell of a lot of towels, the amount you have through in

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  • Location: Live in NW Kent by the Thames & work in SE London
  • Weather Preferences: Snowy November to March and Sunny and warm April to October
  • Location: Live in NW Kent by the Thames & work in SE London
51 minutes ago, feb1991blizzard said:

I think we will be ok one of the winters in the next few years as we are now at solar min.

Apparently were still not out of solar cycle 24 fingers crossed for a late sting if not surely next winter background signals or not

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  • Location: Scouthead Oldham 295mASL
  • Location: Scouthead Oldham 295mASL
Just now, Mattwolves said:

Bloody hell Don you must have a hell of a lot of towels, the amount you have through in

TBF to Don whose posts i enjoy its hard not to feel deflated by all this.

ANOTHER winter with no northerly to speak of.

Anyway, i'm still thinking late Feb, if no signs of that materializing by the 18th enoughs enough and i will have given up too.

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  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
Just now, Mattwolves said:

Bloody hell Don you must have a hell of a lot of towels, the amount you have through in

Nope, haven’t actually thrown in the towel yet, but have been very close and still am!  Will give it to next weekend just in case.

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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 hunt for cold has been a running joke all winter.

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  • Location: Brighton (currently)
  • Location: Brighton (currently)
7 minutes ago, northwestsnow said:

Think i would speak for many feeling utterly shortchanged again for this poxy effort of a winter for the UK ..

Its likely not what people want to hear but i honestly believe next one will be better, the QBO with a bit of luck will be easterly which will do no harm at all.

Im struggling to think of any other reason than QBO as to why its been so awful, only other culprit i can think of is SSTS?

Re: better prospects next winter, that's assuming that the QBO will turn easterly early enough to save the winter. If the switch takes long to complete then we may be chasing cold spells in Feb/March again.

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  • Location: Scouthead Oldham 295mASL
  • Location: Scouthead Oldham 295mASL
1 minute ago, karyo said:

Re: better prospects next winter, that's assuming that the QBO will turn easterly early enough to save the winter. If the switch takes long to complete then we may be chasing cold spells in Feb/March again.

Yes its something we will have to keep an eye on K, i'm so disappointed though, even ENSO wasn't to bad this time around.Knowing our luck we will get a super EL NINO later this year..

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  • Location: Co.Laois > Ireland
  • Weather Preferences: Historical weather events. ❤ the seasons! Winters crisp snow!
  • Location: Co.Laois > Ireland
16 minutes ago, Don said:

I’ll give it until next weekend before properly throwing the towel in!

Would like to say I would ,but guarantee I will be having a squirrels look next week and the week after lol ☺ 

Waiting to see what the ever optimist TI has to say. Can't trust this set up past 6 days i suggest. 

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  • Location: Sedgley 175metres above sea level
  • Weather Preferences: Any kind of extremes. But the more snow the better.
  • Location: Sedgley 175metres above sea level
4 minutes ago, northwestsnow said:

TBF to Don whose posts i enjoy its hard not to feel deflated by all this.

ANOTHER winter with no northerly to speak of.

Anyway, i'm still thinking late Feb, if no signs of that materializing by the 18th enoughs enough and i will have given up too.

I understand where your coming from this winter, even Mr optimistic me is starting to wane, I will give it til the 28th, just watch bloody march bring an ice age now, Yeh I like dons posts as well, also he is easy to have a banter with.

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  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
4 minutes ago, karyo said:

Re: better prospects next winter, that's assuming that the QBO will turn easterly early enough to save the winter. If the switch takes long to complete then we may be chasing cold spells in Feb/March again.

Hopefully we won’t get a repetition of 2016 when the easterly QBO failed and remained westerly!  However, I think that will be highly unlikely.  It will probably be touch and go as to where we are with the QBO next winter as we haven’t long been in the westerly phase.  Atlantic SST’s were also a fly in the ointment for the NAO this winter, so although ‘background’ signals have been positive, they have not been perfect.

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  • Location: Brighton (currently)
  • Location: Brighton (currently)
4 minutes ago, northwestsnow said:

Yes its something we will have to keep an eye on K, i'm so disappointed though, even ENSO wasn't to bad this time around.Knowing our luck we will get a super EL NINO later this year..

It is going a very long wait for winter as this one was practically cancelled.

Maybe around September we should start a QBO monitoring thread to see how long the switch is likely to take.

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  • Location: Raynes Park, London SW20
  • Location: Raynes Park, London SW20

Too early to be throwing in the towel. The 500Mb anamolies for this winter to date will surprise folk.  Heights have been higher than normal over Greenland and other polar regions.  We just haven’t got rid of those bl**dy Azores / Euro heights.  

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  • Location: Darlington
  • Weather Preferences: Warm dry summers
  • Location: Darlington

UKMO extended keeps most of the UK dry but fairly windy as a deep low moves closer bringing some rain to western Scotland, NI & ROI

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  • Location: Brighton (currently)
  • Location: Brighton (currently)
13 minutes ago, Don said:

Hopefully we won’t get a repetition of 2016 when the easterly QBO failed and remained westerly!  However, I think that will be highly unlikely.  It will probably be touch and go as to where we are with the QBO next winter as we haven’t long been in the westerly phase.  Atlantic SST’s were also a fly in the ointment for the NAO this winter, so although ‘background’ signals have been positive, they have not been perfect.

That's true. I think most of us would have been happy to achieve a decently cold month (below average temperatures) and some snow that lasts on the ground for a few days. Alas both Dec and Jan are well above average and February looks like going the same way.

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  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
14 minutes ago, northwestsnow said:

Yes its something we will have to keep an eye on K, i'm so disappointed though, even ENSO wasn't to bad this time around.Knowing our luck we will get a super EL NINO later this year..

We will know by autumn if we are going to get a super El Niño, in which case our expectations for a cold winter will be virtually zero!

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  • Location: Raynes Park, London SW20
  • Location: Raynes Park, London SW20
1 minute ago, karyo said:

That's true. I think most of us would have been happy to achieve a decently cold month (below average temperatures) and some snow that lasts on the ground for a few days. Alas both Dec and Jan are well above average and February looks like going the same way.

January CET was 4.0C - below the 1981-2010 average.

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  • Location: Co.Laois > Ireland
  • Weather Preferences: Historical weather events. ❤ the seasons! Winters crisp snow!
  • Location: Co.Laois > Ireland

If any one has time.  . .

Not sure what the gap in the jet means but maybe this is our chance of pushing it south. Maybe I am mistaken. New to this any help would be appreciated.

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Watching the evolution of it makes u think it could split south is this a possibility? 

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  • Location: redcar,cleveland
  • Weather Preferences: Winter cold,snow and frost. Summer hot and thundery
  • Location: redcar,cleveland
33 minutes ago, northwestsnow said:

Think i would speak for many feeling utterly shortchanged again for this poxy effort of a winter for the UK ..

Its likely not what people want to hear but i honestly believe next one will be better, the QBO with a bit of luck will be easterly which will do no harm at all.

Im struggling to think of any other reason than QBO as to why its been so awful, only other culprit i can think of is SSTS?

The may NAO signal was for a positive/neutral winter so that was bang on, must other signals pointed to cold especially around December. Although those using the solar cycle will know the winter before solar minimum is usually poor for us so there were clues to be fair. With such confidence from very talented people on here and the met office it was hard not to be optimistic.

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  • Location: Hull
  • Weather Preferences: Cold Snowy Winters, Hot Thundery Summers
  • Location: Hull
29 minutes ago, Summer Sun said:

Subject to no further shut-downs across the pond the delayed GFS upgrade will take place on March 20th

and the next government shutdown will take place on March 19th 

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  • Location: Brighton (currently)
  • Location: Brighton (currently)
9 minutes ago, mulzy said:

January CET was 4.0C - below the 1981-2010 average.

Amazing outcome! 

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/cet_info_mean.html

It seems they are using the 1961-90 average so still just above average.

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  • Location: Darlington
  • Weather Preferences: Warm dry summers
  • Location: Darlington

12z ECM ens following recent runs mild air peaking on Friday then a steady downward trend with the Op on the mild side again in the later stages

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Southern Scotland

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  • Location: Leigh-on-Sea
  • Location: Leigh-on-Sea
16 minutes ago, karyo said:

Amazing outcome! 

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/cet_info_mean.html

It seems they are using the 1961-90 average so still just above average.

You'd pretty much call that average with an anomaly of 0.1c. Certainly not well above average though as you thought.

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  • Location: Kirkburton, Huddersfield - 162.5mtrs asl.
  • Weather Preferences: Winter synoptics.Hot summers.
  • Location: Kirkburton, Huddersfield - 162.5mtrs asl.

Has this thread been infiltrated with people who just want to comment/discuss instead of posting actual model output?

Pages of obituary's and no model output 

The GEFS are very average and ECM look no better at the moment

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