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  • Location: Wantage, Oxon
  • Weather Preferences: Hot, cold!
  • Location: Wantage, Oxon
1 hour ago, stodge said:

Cohen does suggest normal to below normal temperatures for the UK over the next couple of weeks.

I'd also suggest while he doesn't see the IOD as a reason for the mild winter, he hasn't got a better (or rather another) reason at this time. 

Finally, the question needs to be asked what happened this winter that the PV became so strong and the AO so positive.  I do believe that the extreme positive AO was in large part related to the strong PV.  But what caused the strong PV?  I know the direct answer to this question.  The large-scale circulation pattern in the NH was hostile to disrupting the PV for all three winter months of December, January and February.  The pattern most favourable for disrupting the PV is ridging/high pressure across Scandinavia and the Urals with troughing/low pressure in East Asia the northern North Pacific.  This pattern existed in November, when we observed the only disruption to the PV this fall and winter, but the opposite pattern has persisted non-stop for three straight months (see Figure iv). 

Weather patterns typically change every week or so what caused the same weather pattern to persist for three months?  I have no idea and I don’t think there are any easy answers. For much of the winter as I have discussed previously, I do believe that Arctic sea anomalies were not favourable for disrupting the PV but I fail to see how that is really the answer.  The Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO) did behave strangely this winter but it did vary and the MJO were in the phases considered most favourable for disrupting the PV (Garfinkel et al. 2012).  People have mentioned the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) being in the positive phase but I just checked and the period when the PV was the least susceptible to weakening and the AO was its most positive, the late 1980’s early 1990’s, the IOD was predominantly negative.  So, for now I believe any easy answers will remain elusive.

So the question remains - why, once the pattern changed in December did or has it remained so persistent?

I think it is because the trop and strat vortexes coupled strongly in mid December and have never looked back, it's still going strong now up there in the strat:

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GFS has the zonal winds going into the mesosphere (sic).  So looking for reasons beyond mid December seems a bit pointless to me, the damage was done before then and the +IOD is on the naughty step!

 

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

The core of the precipitation is well into France on the ICON, the SE gets some rain and maybe a band of light rain, sleet in the Midlands:

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  • Location: Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex
  • Weather Preferences: Winter Snow, extreme weather, mainly sunny mild summers though.
  • Location: Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex

The wedge is back on the ICON...:spiteful:

 

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  • Location: Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex
  • Weather Preferences: Winter Snow, extreme weather, mainly sunny mild summers though.
  • Location: Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex
12 minutes ago, Snowy L said:

Moderate snow for North Midlands on that.

South Midlands could hit the jackpot...penny slots though.

 

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  • Location: Bedfordshire (35m ASL)
  • Weather Preferences: All of it!
  • Location: Bedfordshire (35m ASL)

MetO is quite confident on the track of the low being south as their favoured model solution, straight through the channel.  Not bringing much in the way of snow, more like rain.  Saturday I would suggest is looking like a rain only event, no sign of anything white.  

 

 

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

GFS sticking to its guns, no real change up to the 48hr mark.  Looking good for the Midlands particularly:

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Then the risk moves south and east during the afternoon.

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Looks nice, but I certainly wouldn't put too much money on this being the final outcome!

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  • Location: NR Worthing SE Coast
  • Location: NR Worthing SE Coast

their is no bitter easterly or northerly  airstream  over the u.k. before this weather system moves in wed night,so no chance of a decent snow event,so even though the low is engaging cold air ithe air is nowhere near cold enough for a decent snow event.

Just about sums up this rubbish winter.

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

GFS track at T45:

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Looks better for snow prospects than ICON to me.  I'm struck by the amount of uncertainty that still remains about this, it is unusual.  Looks exactly like a situation that is difficult to forecast, and surprises could very well happen.

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  • Location: Burton-on-Trent (90m), Larnaka most Augusts
  • Location: Burton-on-Trent (90m), Larnaka most Augusts

GFS and Met Office continue to be about 300 miles apart. Huge difference 48 hours away.

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

The Arpege at 10:00hrs and 13:00hrs on Thursday.  According to this, still decent for Wales and the Midlands but pretty much a non event for the south and south east.  Not to worry, the GFS is always right at this range 

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  • Location: Walsall, West Midlands 135m/442ft ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Heatwaves, thunderstorms, cold/snowy spells.
  • Location: Walsall, West Midlands 135m/442ft ASL

I say its 50/50 for Thursday's possible event, there's been many marginal events that has been on the right side and has given a dumping to areas. With it being in the coldest part of the day over the Midlands particularly, wouldn't that be a factor of whether its rain/sleet or just snow? 

Also the 12z GFS looks a little colder on the northern edge of that system, may make more of it snowfall instead of Sleet/Rain but still mostly rain for the most part say from stafford/stoke south, but even areas south of that may get some very back edge stuff as it moves south and east with the cold coming south with it, but its still all up for grabs.

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  • Location: Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex
  • Weather Preferences: Winter Snow, extreme weather, mainly sunny mild summers though.
  • Location: Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex

Here we go, GEM take on things, similar to the other models, snow apx north of the M4 into the Midlands clearing SE.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  • Location: Nr Chelmsford, Essex
  • Weather Preferences: Hurricanes, Thunderstorms and blizzards please!
  • Location: Nr Chelmsford, Essex
1 minute ago, feb1991blizzard said:

An Easterly!!!

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It is, unfortunately a very tame one with no cold air to tap into!!

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  • Location: Eastbourne and Larnaca,Cyprus .
  • Location: Eastbourne and Larnaca,Cyprus .
Just now, feb1991blizzard said:

An Easterly!!!

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Yes and typically too late and with no cold air to draw on ! 

These huge highs even in mid winter are too big for their own good , we want to see a chunk of the PV drop south to the east to inject some cold into the flow . 

Scandi highs boxed in are much better , bigger isn’t always better ! 

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

Yes and typically too late and with no cold air to draw on ! 

These huge highs even in mid winter are too big for their own good , we want to see a chunk of the PV drop south to the east to inject some cold into the flow . 

Scandi highs boxed in are much better , bigger isn’t always better ! 

I wouldnt say too late, they can deliver right up until early April, but you are right regarding PV chunk, its all about timing you want a snap off of the siberian vortex but it needs to align with the UK along the surface isobars.,

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  • Location: Eastbourne and Larnaca,Cyprus .
  • Location: Eastbourne and Larnaca,Cyprus .

Quite a few wedges popping up in the GEFS.

The models still seem unsure as to what happens with low pressure over the UK after day 5.

The control run almost produces a throwback to Feb 1996.

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