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  • Location: Carryduff, County Down 420ft ASL
  • Location: Carryduff, County Down 420ft ASL
56 minutes ago, shaky said:

my thinking is if we are gona get a cold spell its going to be one of those legendary out the blue moments 

I'm afraid the days of a cold spell suddenly developing out out of the blue are long gone which is why we can be very certain of no proper cold at least out to mid January.

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  • Location: Dundee
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, thunderstorms, gales. All extremes except humidity.
  • Location: Dundee

A number of recent posts are more suited to the moans thread. Please stick to the models in here.

Thanks.

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  • Location: Drayton, Portsmouth
  • Location: Drayton, Portsmouth

Morning all, no point dressing up the ECM clusters any other way, the D11-D15 period suggests average to above average temperatures on a W or SWly flow, probably the return of rain at times, just the slight chance of a breakaway ridge to Scandinavia but low chances for now. 

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  • Location: Redhill, Surrey
  • Weather Preferences: Southerly tracking LPs, heavy snow. Also 25c and calm
  • Location: Redhill, Surrey
1 hour ago, northwestsnow said:

The zonal winds plot posted Nick is utterly awful..

If anything it is showing the PV getting stronger as we move through Jan,

Awful indeed, HP in the wrong place is likely for some ‘considerable’ time ahead and Dec being on the much milder side fuels my concerns even more.  The idea of HP oscillating to our SW, SE and over us seemed and still does seem a decently plausible theme to me for January and February as a whole.

 BFTP

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  • Location: Ossett, West Yorkshire
  • Location: Ossett, West Yorkshire

Here we are again at the end of another December with nothing of note showing in the models from the perspective of a proper cold spell as we move into January.  If things do not begin to improve soon we could be looking at yet another poor winter from a cold perspective and that is with solar minimum and a fairly neutral ENSO state.  I know that background signals like high solar activity, a strong ENSO anomaly either way and a westerly QBO are generally not conducive to cold winter conditions in the UK, but in a year where these background signals are not poor in this way, if we cannot see something decent in cold winter conditions in the UK, then we have to question if we can ever see winters like 2009-10 ever again, or ever again see the sort of severe spells like December 2010, or see even the cold spells like we had in the 2012-13 winter ever again. 

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  • Location: Ossett, West Yorkshire
  • Location: Ossett, West Yorkshire
18 minutes ago, BLAST FROM THE PAST said:

Awful indeed, HP in the wrong place is likely for some ‘considerable’ time ahead and Dec being on the much milder side fuels my concerns even more.  The idea of HP oscillating to our SW, SE and over us seemed and still does seem a decently plausible theme to me for January and February as a whole.

 BFTP

Actually around the third week in December this year, pressure was quite high over Greenland, and we got close to a cold spell synoptically, but it never materialised.

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  • Location: Walsall, West Midlands
  • Weather Preferences: Winter - cold, summer - not hot
  • Location: Walsall, West Midlands

Come to Daddy 

 

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Waaay out in GFS FI but, hell if there's a straw to be clutched I might as well grab it with both hands.

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  • Location: Calgary, Canada. Previously, Saffron Walden (Essex/Herts border), United Kingdom
  • Weather Preferences: Continental:Warm dry summers, cold snowy winters
  • Location: Calgary, Canada. Previously, Saffron Walden (Essex/Herts border), United Kingdom
1 hour ago, North-Easterly Blast said:

Here we are again at the end of another December with nothing of note showing in the models from the perspective of a proper cold spell as we move into January.  If things do not begin to improve soon we could be looking at yet another poor winter from a cold perspective and that is with solar minimum and a fairly neutral ENSO state.  I know that background signals like high solar activity, a strong ENSO anomaly either way and a westerly QBO are generally not conducive to cold winter conditions in the UK, but in a year where these background signals are not poor in this way, if we cannot see something decent in cold winter conditions in the UK, then we have to question if we can ever see winters like 2009-10 ever again, or ever again see the sort of severe spells like December 2010, or see even the cold spells like we had in the 2012-13 winter ever again. 

I wouldn't get too downtrodden. There will likely be a string of cold winters again in the next years just as they were in 2009-2012. I mean just look back at 1895-1928. It probably seemed cold winters wouldn't return but they did. Global warming will change things but not as dramatically over the next few years. 

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  • Location: Midlands
  • Weather Preferences: Very Cold, Very Snowy
  • Location: Midlands
2 hours ago, North-Easterly Blast said:

Here we are again at the end of another December with nothing of note showing in the models from the perspective of a proper cold spell as we move into January.  If things do not begin to improve soon we could be looking at yet another poor winter from a cold perspective and that is with solar minimum and a fairly neutral ENSO state.  I know that background signals like high solar activity, a strong ENSO anomaly either way and a westerly QBO are generally not conducive to cold winter conditions in the UK, but in a year where these background signals are not poor in this way, if we cannot see something decent in cold winter conditions in the UK, then we have to question if we can ever see winters like 2009-10 ever again, or ever again see the sort of severe spells like December 2010, or see even the cold spells like we had in the 2012-13 winter ever again. 

2018?

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  • Location: portsmouth uk
  • Weather Preferences: extremes
  • Location: portsmouth uk
2 hours ago, North-Easterly Blast said:

Actually around the third week in December this year, pressure was quite high over Greenland, and we got close to a cold spell synoptically, but it never materialised.

i've got to agree.

but the cold run of winters during cycle 24 minimum started with 2008 back end cold.

its possible by mid month something could arise polar vortex has been a dominant beast this year and if i was to be realistic it would take something special to knock it of its perch.

but never say never.

look at 2013 march.

but as you say the teleconnection have been conductive at times.

but as gp pointed out the indian ocean dipole is perhaps the thorn in our side.

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  • Location: North East Cotswolds, 232m, 761feet ASL
  • Location: North East Cotswolds, 232m, 761feet ASL
14 minutes ago, shaky said:

Icon 12z absolute filth at 132 hours!!dunno why i even bothered to look lol!bartlett high basically!!! 

Yep, I can only see a big back track in the GFS now ref the weekend cold snap 

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  • Location: North East Cotswolds, 232m, 761feet ASL
  • Location: North East Cotswolds, 232m, 761feet ASL

Actually, the 12z has a better ridge than the 06z...

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  • Location: leicester
  • Location: leicester
5 minutes ago, Ali1977 said:

Actually, the 12z has a better ridge than the 06z...

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Yeh but how much can we trust it!ukmo looks a little better at 120 hours but not much of a ridge!!

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  • Location: North Newbald , 139 feet asl
  • Location: North Newbald , 139 feet asl

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Both UKMO 12z and GFS 12z are ok for 4th Jan at t120 if you live in the North East of the UK and want a 24 hour cold shot ........but not really of much interest to others down South.   

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  • Location: leicester
  • Location: leicester
17 minutes ago, Ali1977 said:

Actually, the 12z has a better ridge than the 06z...

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Yeh but how much can we trust it!ukmo looks a little better at 120 hours but not much of a ridge!!at least gfs looks cold and frosty till 192 hours!if ecm moves towards it then maybe its correct until then the poor form on the gfs continues!!

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

So we are now in the middle of this horror show for coldies!   Before a look at the current models, a look at the strat for context is I think appropriate, zonal winds:

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Speed well up and no sign of it declining, vortex at various levels here:

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It has got it's grip now, remember I posted this plot earlier in Nov Dec and the ellipses describing the the strat vortex at various levels were all over the place.  They aren't all over the place any more, are they?  At all levels from 1mb to 150 mb massive whirly thing centered on the pole at 15 Jan...

I think everyone knew we might end up here this year, given seasonal models especially, personally I hoped we might squeeze some wintry weather while the trop vortex was still disorganised, but no, for most.   GFS 12z it's having a laugh now, that vortex, bear balancing ball on head, T252:

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Ho hum...

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  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
10 minutes ago, Mike Poole said:

So we are now in the middle of this horror show for coldies!   Before a look at the current models, a look at the strat for context is I think appropriate, zonal winds:

image.thumb.jpg.78bc4e865d31d67c6c685d6168bdeb93.jpg

Speed well up and no sign of it declining, vortex at various levels here:

image.thumb.jpg.6aa2fab443a9d4356c5cb8289e6374bd.jpg

It has got it's grip now, remember I posted this plot earlier in Nov Dec and the ellipses describing the the strat vortex at various levels were all over the place.  They aren't all over the place any more, are they?  At all levels from 1mb to 150 mb massive whirly thing centered on the pole at 15 Jan...

I think everyone knew we might end up here this year, given seasonal models especially, personally I hoped we might squeeze some wintry weather while the trop vortex was still disorganised, but no, for most.   GFS 12z it's having a laugh now, that vortex, bear balancing ball on head, T252:

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Ho hum...

I reckon we will be in the same position in a month's time.  Got 1988/89 written all over it.  Ok, so December has been less mild than 1988, but it wouldn't surprise me if January or February is exceptionally mild.

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  • Location: leicester
  • Location: leicester
10 minutes ago, Mike Poole said:

So we are now in the middle of this horror show for coldies!   Before a look at the current models, a look at the strat for context is I think appropriate, zonal winds:

image.thumb.jpg.78bc4e865d31d67c6c685d6168bdeb93.jpg

Speed well up and no sign of it declining, vortex at various levels here:

image.thumb.jpg.6aa2fab443a9d4356c5cb8289e6374bd.jpg

It has got it's grip now, remember I posted this plot earlier in Nov Dec and the ellipses describing the the strat vortex at various levels were all over the place.  They aren't all over the place any more, are they?  At all levels from 1mb to 150 mb massive whirly thing centered on the pole at 15 Jan...

I think everyone knew we might end up here this year, given seasonal models especially, personally I hoped we might squeeze some wintry weather while the trop vortex was still disorganised, but no, for most.   GFS 12z it's having a laugh now, that vortex, bear balancing ball on head, T252:

image.thumb.jpg.19690c367608811939991964307e69ae.jpg

Ho hum...

Only comfort is usa is hardly getting any meaningfull cold either since the stsrt of winter!!its flat around the uk but also the states!!

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  • Location: Wantage, Oxon
  • Weather Preferences: Hot, cold!
  • Location: Wantage, Oxon
3 minutes ago, Don said:

I reckon we will be in the same situation in a month's time.  Got 1988/89 written all over it.  Ok, so December has been less mild than 1988, but it wouldn't surprise me if January or February is exceptionally mild.

I fear so, Don, and I usually try to look for the positives, but there really aren't many at the moment.

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  • Location: Kings Norton, West Midlands
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, Cold & Snowy
  • Location: Kings Norton, West Midlands

Is it over yet? The dross, I mean. Is it? Anything interesting on the horizon? Anything? No? 

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  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
2 minutes ago, Mike Poole said:

I fear so, Don, and I usually try to look for the positives, but there really aren't many at the momment. 

I know.  As you know I've had low expectations for this winter for a while and thought that would save disappointment at least, but I still am!  At least the rain has stopped for now!

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  • Location: Ossett, West Yorkshire
  • Location: Ossett, West Yorkshire
14 minutes ago, Don said:

I reckon we will be in the same position in a month's time.  Got 1988/89 written all over it.  Ok, so December has been less mild than 1988, but it wouldn't surprise me if January or February is exceptionally mild.

Last February was exceptionally mild - the warmest since at least 2002 and not far short of 1998.

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