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  • Location: Broxbourne, Herts
  • Weather Preferences: Snow snow and snow
  • Location: Broxbourne, Herts

Th prospect of a plume for the first weekend of May reminds me of 1998  when it was just about as warm a start of May as I recall, But better remembered by me for the birth of my daughter!   If it does come off, it certainly wouldn't bear any relation to the previous month which I recall being very wet and occasionally cold!

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  • Location: Bedfordshire
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, plumes, snow, severe weather
  • Location: Bedfordshire

And of course, along with most Spanish plumes, is the risk of thunderstorms :oldlaugh:

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

EC clusters - close to the plume but I'm guessing the warmest air is forecast to miss atm - plenty of time to change though, cluster 1 would give potential for a "hit" with that cut-off low, cluster 4 probably a brush with the SE corner.

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Further along into May - 60% of runs (clusters 2 and 3) bring a ridge reasonably close to the UK, which may benefit SW areas in particular, whilst 40% (cluster 1) maintains a trough over the UK. In short - no real indication of the way forward for May. Probably need to see how this plume over Europe develops first. 

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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

The mean not quite so keen as the ECM op for a plume, all things considered it should be warming up come the weekend... In the short term Tuesday is looking a potentially wet day with the rain now showing its hand over France... And it as out name firmly written on it... So all in all an eventful several days ahead... Stay safe. 

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  • Location: Thorley, west Isle of Wight
  • Weather Preferences: Spanish plumes & stormy winters. Facebook @ Lance's Lightning Shots
  • Location: Thorley, west Isle of Wight
53 minutes ago, Zak M said:

And of course, along with most Spanish plumes, is the risk of thunderstorms :oldlaugh:

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Looks very tasty, just needs bringing forward 6 hours to allow for a more favourable time of day (well, night  ) 

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

Just thought I'd post the GFS 06Z temperature ensembles. And, compared to the control, the operational run is dire!:oldlaugh:

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  • Location: New Forest (Western)
  • Weather Preferences: Fascinated by extreme weather. Despise drizzle.
  • Location: New Forest (Western)

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This potential vigorous low peripheral to a fairly potent plume for the time of year... has my attention.

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Hard to see when side-by-side, but GFS has been trending slower with the north-east motion of the trough. It's coming closer to cutting-off, though I'm not sure it'll ever quite get that far.

It's now close to what the 00z ECM depicted. 

This scenario brings the risk of some severe thunderstorms, depending on how well the low-level flow brings in very warm and moist air beneath the cooler, drier air being driven eastward by the low.

So, something worth keeping an eye on. Could lead to some huge rainfall totals in places, especially if it then becomes trapped for a while by the Azores High extending northeast and across to its north, as some model runs have been suggesting.

Once it clears, comes our shot at a return to fine, dry weather as that's when the lagged response of the AAM rise should start to make itself known (never mind how poorly recent GFS runs have been illustrating that!).

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

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This potential vigorous low peripheral to a fairly potent plume for the time of year... has my attention.

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Hard to see when side-by-side, but GFS has been trending slower with the north-east motion of the trough. It's coming closer to cutting-off, though I'm not sure it'll ever quite get that far.

It's now close to what the 00z ECM depicted. 

This scenario brings the risk of some severe thunderstorms, depending on how well the low-level flow brings in very warm and moist air beneath the cooler, drier air being driven eastward by the low.

So, something worth keeping an eye on. Could lead to some huge rainfall totals in places, especially if it then becomes trapped for a while by the Azores High extending northeast and across to its north, as some model runs have been suggesting.

Once it clears, comes our shot at a return to fine, dry weather as that's when the lagged response of the AAM rise should start to make itself known (never mind how poorly recent GFS runs have been illustrating that!).

I hope so! Longer term into May the ECM and GFS both have Ely trades dominating the scene, which isn’t usually good news for the UK.

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  • Location: Bedfordshire
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, plumes, snow, severe weather
  • Location: Bedfordshire

Evening all. Still some pretty high temperatures to come next weekend from what could be our first Spanish plume of the year, with temperatures into the low-twenties possible in the south. The GFS 12z ends the plume with a thundery breakdown. It will be uncertain what happens after the plume, but right now, the latest GFS run is showing some days of rain and some days of sunshine, with temperatures around average for the time of year.

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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

Icon model was first to pick up the prospect of continental tropical heat drift next week close to the British Isles. Ecm model seems to be supporting that on this evenings latest run. Ripe for heat low formations . As usual time and more runs will tell but interesting charts all he same.

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

It's nice to see a heat-peak (and maybe even some storms!) at or around Star Wars Day; but, by the time we get to the 8th, all is lost amongst the scatter: :oldgood:

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May the Fourth be with you?:oldlaugh:

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  • Location: Bedfordshire
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, plumes, snow, severe weather
  • Location: Bedfordshire

I'll happily take this from the ECM

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@General Cluster If it verifies, it might be 'May the storms be with you' :oldlaugh:

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

ECM looks very optimistic. Almost certainly a very warm outlier (though hoping deep down its correct!)

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  • Location: Carryduff, County Down 420ft ASL
  • Location: Carryduff, County Down 420ft ASL
Just now, mb018538 said:

ECM looks very optimistic. Almost certainly a very warm outlier (though hoping deep down its correct!)

Just saw it myself. It's a cracker.

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  • Location: Maldon, Essex
  • Location: Maldon, Essex
4 minutes ago, mb018538 said:

ECM looks very optimistic. Almost certainly a very warm outlier (though hoping deep down its correct!)

Nah it’ll be a cold outlier!

in all seriousness, it may be towards the warm end of the ensembles, but the whole evolution is on a knife-edge, so wouldn’t take much for it to come off.

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  • Location: New Forest (Western)
  • Weather Preferences: Fascinated by extreme weather. Despise drizzle.
  • Location: New Forest (Western)
2 hours ago, mb018538 said:

I hope so! Longer term into May the ECM and GFS both have Ely trades dominating the scene, which isn’t usually good news for the UK.

Yeah, those trades aren't going to help matters - but thankfully, it's not as simple as A + B = C when it comes to the downstream impacts, thanks to the presence of the Atlantic Ocean and its various mannerisms.

 

Back to the near-term modelling and we sure have an interesting conundrum manifesting in the mid-range.

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ECM 12z is more progressive in moving the leading trough (the one arriving as I type this) away east Sat-Sun, which coupled with even slower movement of the low out west, allows a ridge to build between the two features. ICON also does this, though not quite as much so. The same is true of GEM - but note the little low it has south of Greenland. Important going forward.

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Sorry for the bombardment but I wanted to hammer home the distinct divide in solutions present at +144 hours. This is actually caused by that little low south of Greenland (JMA had it too), rather than the slowing of the low west of Iberia or the quicker eastward motion of the low that affects us this Wed-Fri. 


It's interesting that GFS falls into the less progressive camp alongside UKMO and ICON, yet develops much more of a low than ICON, with greater NE movement.

ECM is in a league of its own - whether its a more successful one,remains to be seen.

ICON also enters its own league between +144 and +168. It does this by fully cutting-off the low west of Iberia - something I've been contemplating the possibility of having seen the slowing-down trend of the parent trough in the GFS modelling today.

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Alas, with GEM and JMA on such different paths, we can't sensibly expect that slowing trend to continue in GFS, or ECM to hold its ground, or ICON for that matter. Only hope, if you like it summer-like in early May!

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  • Location: Hoyland,barnsley,south yorkshire(134m asl)
  • Weather Preferences: severe storms,snow wind and ice
  • Location: Hoyland,barnsley,south yorkshire(134m asl)

Hi everyone,hope you are all well

@DiagonalRedLine,thanks for the nice post/reply^

the ECM as some have said above is a beauty isn't it and will be interesting to see where it sits in the ens soon

a closer look:-

at 72 hours has a little nasty low in the SW

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then from 144 hrs>

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  • Location: Windermere 120m asl
  • Location: Windermere 120m asl

Quite a shift in the overall pattern of recent weeks taking place, and a volatile set up makes medium range forecasting very uncertain, fine margins between cool and unsettled or something warm and unsettled by the weekend. In the short term, some significant rainfall for much of England and Wales to end what was looking like being a very dry April, alas the next 3 days will put pay to that. Also much cooler, tomorrow looking particularly cool in central england, wouldn't be surprised if many spots struggle to make 8 degrees, which under rain and leaden skies will come as a shock.

As said the end of the week looks messy, the trough will be close but pulled back further west allowing a surge of warmer uppers from the south, more so in the SE, a thundery interlude could well be the end result with convective downpours popping up all over the place.

Looking further beyond, signs we may see a ridge building through mid atlantic to the north behind the trough, but with low pressure/ltrough formation to our SW, we could be looking at a trough dominated scenario, cool in the north, something warmer in the south. 

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