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Posted
  • Location: Cleeve, North Somerset
  • Weather Preferences: Continental winters & summers.
  • Location: Cleeve, North Somerset
1 hour ago, Don said:

Agreed, winter 13/14 was abnormal and December 2015 was just ridiculous!  However, I wouldn't say this winter has been normal.  December was warmer than average and January so far is running well above average.  Barely seen any frosts either.

Indeed, broadly speaking it's not been unusual in that the weather has come from the Atlantic, but it's been of unusual strength since Christmas and the conditions delivered wouldn't be out of place in November.

I have a feeling that going forward, as long as the area of high pressure at the end of the week doesn't squeeze one last visit to the mainland EU before January 31st, and it slight into the Atlantic, that future such onslaughts will come from a more standard westerly direction if not northwesterly, which would be well timed!

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  • Location: NR Worthing SE Coast
  • Location: NR Worthing SE Coast
1 hour ago, bluearmy said:

No respite for coldies on the latest ec46 .... euro high persists throughout the period post week 2

And if was showing siberian high post week 2 would it verify, just us anything else  at that timescale cannot be guaranteed, so you can't write off our chances of a much colder 2nd half of winter based on that. And remind everyone how ec46 performed last winter, which you failed to mention either. 

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  • Location: Roznava (Slovakia) formerly Hollywood, Co Wicklow
  • Weather Preferences: continental climate
  • Location: Roznava (Slovakia) formerly Hollywood, Co Wicklow

MJO fail? I am wondering where is the response in modeling to phases 6 or 7? Mean just mirrors what we have in winter so far,blocking almost non existent and restricted to few days under inflated Azores high,then migrates to its default location-Europe

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  • Location: Midlands
  • Weather Preferences: Very Cold, Very Snowy
  • Location: Midlands
3 minutes ago, Weather-history said:

That's a  hefty high pressure. 

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Do you know when we last had a high pressure of this strength that hung around for a week or more? Feels like years......

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  • Location: Irlam
  • Location: Irlam
4 minutes ago, Climate Man said:

Do you know when we last had a high pressure of this strength that hung around for a week or more? Feels like years......

They rarely last that long that strength. I think mid February 2008, we had about a week of high pressure of 1030mb+, that comes to mind

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  • Location: Weymouth, Dorset
  • Location: Weymouth, Dorset
56 minutes ago, jules216 said:

MJO fail? I am wondering where is the response in modeling to phases 6 or 7? Mean just mirrors what we have in winter so far,blocking almost non existent and restricted to few days under inflated Azores high,then migrates to its default location-Europe

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Little sign of MJO influences on this specific run but this is often the case. Pacific forcing doesn’t always engage with the atmospheric flow and often becomes mere noise as it’s overridden by stronger influences.

Juries still out on this one, it could easily yet still turn in our favour as we head through the final third of the month into Feb. Early days yet, with up to a two week lag and it is at a very decent amplitude so we should remain optimistic at least.

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  • Location: Bournemouth
  • Weather Preferences: Dry mild or snow winter. Hot and humid summer.
  • Location: Bournemouth

For the last 4 days I have saved the 0z run for the 20th as this was suggesting the high over us, consistency is good. However the pv was shown to be different on each day. The last two screen shots are where ecm had the high going 4 days ago and where it thinks it will go now on the 21st. 

 

I would suggest that it was too keen for the ridge to go nw and move more of the pv east.  

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  • Location: Abergavenny
  • Location: Abergavenny

Aside from the Northerly n deep FI, the GFS 00z output is somewhat uninspiring this morning. I hope a more knowledgeable  poster can tell me otherwise. 

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

we are already beginning  to to classic model differentiation -via placement  of HP. ..

a definitive  sign of promise 'perhaps '...as gain and waine,  play out.

yet with that large lobe encroachment  @siberian/nonorthern eurasian  sectors. ...the feeling  has to be positive. 

the swings north west -to north east speak volumes. ...but a classical  insight  to the big possibilities of possible large scale gain! !!!

 

I'm very much liking this evloving evolution  'personally '...in the hunt for cold! 

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

Aside from the Northerly n deep FI, the GFS 00z output is somewhat uninspiring this morning. I hope a more knowledgeable  poster can tell me otherwise. 

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Not suggesting I’m more knowledgeable in replying to your post but here is my thoughts on day 10. Looking at the various ideas from gfs many support what the ecm is showing. A high to our sw which allows a nw flow for the north. The high just can’t get enough north to allow anything more exciting as the jet is to strong. Now from there onwards all options are on the table and we will have to watch with interest. 

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  • Location: Cambridge, UK
  • Weather Preferences: Summer > Spring > Winter > Autumn :-)
  • Location: Cambridge, UK

All depends what happens with the MJO and if it has any effects down the line..

GFS still showing high amplitude phase 7, perhaps going into phase 8:

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ECM has lower amplitude phase 7 before quickly going back to the COD:

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Not really surprising to see the ECM OP collapse the high and westerlies of a form returning - the extended has been showing this for days.

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  • Location: Carryduff, County Down 420ft ASL
  • Location: Carryduff, County Down 420ft ASL
13 minutes ago, DavidS said:

Aside from the Northerly n deep FI, the GFS 00z output is somewhat uninspiring this morning. I hope a more knowledgeable  poster can tell me otherwise. 

The general direction has been well sign posted for a few days now I think.

High pressure near the British Isles from the weekend until around month end followed by a colder North or North Westerly airstream in response to the MJO phase 7.

After that topples, more probable that we return to Westerlies.

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  • Location: Abergavenny
  • Location: Abergavenny
4 minutes ago, That ECM said:

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Not suggesting I’m more knowledgeable in replying to your post but here is my thoughts on day 10. Looking at the various ideas from gfs many support what the ecm is showing. A high to our sw which allows a nw flow for the north. The high just can’t get enough north to allow anything more exciting as the jet is to strong. Now from there onwards all options are on the table and we will have to watch with interest. 

Yes the high not as far north, and perhaps not as much surface cold as hoped for.

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  • Location: uxbridge middlesex(- also Bampton oxfordshire
  • Weather Preferences: blizzard conditions. ice days
  • Location: uxbridge middlesex(- also Bampton oxfordshire
6 minutes ago, mountain shadow said:

The general direction has been well sign posted for a few days now I think.

High pressure near the British Isles from the weekend until around month end followed by a colder North or North Westerly airstream in response to the MJO phase 7.

After that topples, more probable that we return to Westerlies.

brave call pal..

even with mjo-projection.. (as it stands. ..

a brave call! 

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  • Location: st albans
  • Location: st albans
7 hours ago, SLEETY said:

And if was showing siberian high post week 2 would it verify, just us anything else  at that timescale cannot be guaranteed, so you can't write off our chances of a much colder 2nd half of winter based on that. And remind everyone how ec46 performed last winter, which you failed to mention either. 

It was generally more than reasonable for weeks 3 and 4 .....  more relevant was people’s interpretation (out of desperation) of a slight high anomoly being a massive block ! 

The ec46 picked up the euro low height episode last winter from five/six weeks out .....the fact it was brief and failed to deliver winter wasn’t the models fault!

 

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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
11 hours ago, carinthian said:

Looks like UKMO extended at 168t similar to ECM chart below. Mild flow into Scotland particularly. Difference in the positioning of the high centre compared to the American models who develop a colder continental flow into Southern Britain at least. Who will be right or will they all get in wrong ?

C

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RE: above post. Looks like UKMO yet again comes on top again over the other models in the 144t range. At least this chart below shows some much colder upper air advancing into the Alps , however, not likely at this stage to produce much needed snowfall. We now await for further runs to see if the strong development of high pressure over Southern Britain starts to retrogress, maybe the UKMO extended chart will provide a clue .

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

You know it is a terrible winter when even a cold high downgrades at short notice. Looking at the latest GFS op (supported by the control and a cluster) it brings in more cloud and relative warmth:

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This is dragging the mean up despite some members still supporting a cold high. The op would lead to relatively mild temps night and day and the current CET of +3.8c above the average will face very minor pressure. So down south, not even a cold high, probably similar to what we have just experienced? Still time for more flip-flops though?

As for after D12, the nascent signs of a Pacific ridge are less so this morning, and those relying on the MJO to rescue the winter should remember last year when we were promised changes that never happened, when the signal was muted by other variables. It may be a case where we are in a period where just pumping out MJO charts as a forecast will not be wise.

A basic analysis of the mean probably gives a clue as to what we are facing for the rest of January. GFS has been pretty consistent with the signal; the tPV moving to Siberia and mostly returning to Canada. That, we know, is a pretty mediocre "big picture":

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So although we cannot rule out transient cold, we are seeing that getting any sustainable blocking in our region with this pattern is pretty much a no-go, a pattern change is definitely needed. ATM it is heading for one of the mildest winters of recent times despite many expecting the contrary!

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  • Location: Essex, Southend-On-Sea
  • Weather Preferences: Warm, bright summers and Cold, snowy winters
  • Location: Essex, Southend-On-Sea
1 hour ago, That ECM said:

For the last 4 days I have saved the 0z run for the 20th as this was suggesting the high over us, consistency is good. However the pv was shown to be different on each day. The last two screen shots are where ecm had the high going 4 days ago and where it thinks it will go now on the 21st. 

 

I would suggest that it was too keen for the ridge to go nw and move more of the pv east.  

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It’s the Pacific ridge it got wrong here without it our high doesn’t have the potential link up to make it further North. 

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

Now, after December GEFS debacle, this obviously to be taken as a pinch of salt. But let's see if this time we are on the downward slope to a reasonably sustained period of weak westerlies.

Probably too early to be even thinking about reversals though.

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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
1 hour ago, carinthian said:

RE: above post. Looks like UKMO yet again comes on top again over the other models in the 144t range. At least this chart below shows some much colder upper air advancing into the Alps , however, not likely at this stage to produce much needed snowfall. We now await for further runs to see if the strong development of high pressure over Southern Britain starts to retrogress, maybe the UKMO extended chart will provide a clue .

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The UKMO extended follows a similar pattern to ECM run. Some ridging WNW but not enough amplification to allow a more direct Arctic source into NW Europe , however a bit of an opportunity for colder interludes into Scotland in the day 10 range. Still things can change rapidly post 144t for a change.

 C

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  • Location: Cambridge, UK
  • Weather Preferences: Summer > Spring > Winter > Autumn :-)
  • Location: Cambridge, UK
7 minutes ago, Dennis said:

Winter ahead with Greenland blocking? - to the MJO signs it should be shown up late Jan

 

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That's last nights 18z run..


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00z Greenland pressure ensemble doesn't really show any appetite for developing a strong Greenland block. The outlying OP run with strong SLP isn't even a proper GH if you follow the 500mb heights. We might drag some colder air down temporarily, but at the moment it's not on the table.
 

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