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

Good morning, peeps...But the GFS 00Z isn't all that summery, temperature-wise, it has to be said, though there should be quite a lot of sunshine; and the scrag-end 'offers' some, very limited, suggestion of an eventual break in the easterlies...?:unsure2:

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And, worse still, the operational run is on the warm side of the ensembles!:shok:

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  • Location: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
  • Weather Preferences: Cold, frost and snow
  • Location: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

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Has to be said looks like the 00z op was definitely on the milder side 850s wise longer term.  Most ensemble members and mean taking a sharp drop.

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  • Location: Hertfordshire
  • Weather Preferences: SNOW AND FREEZING TEMPS
  • Location: Hertfordshire

If only it was winter . Some stonking charts this morning if it’s wasn’t May that is . 

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

If only it was winter . Some stonking charts this morning if it’s wasn’t May that is . 

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Yes end of ecm would be amazing for  winter,one day it might happen again....

Spring skiing in the Highlands in May  if ECM  is correct.,can have the occasional bitter May up there with plenty of snow.

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

Yes, staggering blocking high from the ECM 00z. Meanwhile GFS dropped the baton on that for its 00z effort but we'll see if the 06z follows suit.

The Arctic high development looks largely stratosphere-driven, as a response to the final warming of the polar vortex. It will be interesting to see how it interacts with the tropical forcing, which will be Nino-like for the next week or so (aids -AO and -NAO in May, similar to winter), then looks to transition to neutral or Nina-like (strongly encourages a +NAO in May). 

Broadly, I can see grounds for a notably cool period within the middle-third of the month, followed by a markedly warmer final third but with this being via westerlies (driest in SE).

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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

That sure is a decent ECM 0z ensemble mean once we’re through the next few days with a more settled look to our weather next week..fingers crossed!☀️

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  • Location: New Forest (Western)
  • Weather Preferences: Fascinated by extreme weather. Despise drizzle.
  • Location: New Forest (Western)
On 30/04/2020 at 00:24, Mark wheeler said:

Are we looking at mid 20s in this set up ? , still learning but want clarification. Thanks 

Hi Mark, just seen this sorry. The surface wind looks to be generally from the east and drawing in air that's at fairly typical temps for the time of year. Generally mid-teens to low 20s depending on how much sunshine there is, but may only be low teens on eastern coasts.

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

Yes, staggering blocking high from the ECM 00z. Meanwhile GFS dropped the baton on that for its 00z effort but we'll see if the 06z follows suit.

The Arctic high development looks largely stratosphere-driven, as a response to the final warming of the polar vortex. It will be interesting to see how it interacts with the tropical forcing, which will be Nino-like for the next week or so (aids -AO and -NAO in May, similar to winter), then looks to transition to neutral or Nina-like (strongly encourages a +NAO in May). 

Broadly, I can see grounds for a notably cool period within the middle-third of the month, followed by a markedly warmer final third but with this being via westerlies (driest in SE).

Looks right to me. Certainly not going to be a repeat of April’s weather. Mid month looking a bit dodgy in terms of temperatures, but hopefully not a washout. It’s these kind of set ups that can mean low pressure can get stuck over The UK and rain for ages. Too far off for that kind of detail.

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  • Location: Maldon, Essex
  • Location: Maldon, Essex

I’d rather suffer a dodgy May and get it out of the way before summer starts.

The charts do look quite extreme, so I would expect the usual moderation.

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  • Location: just south of Doncaster, Sth Yorks
  • Location: just south of Doncaster, Sth Yorks
30 minutes ago, mb018538 said:

Looks right to me. Certainly not going to be a repeat of April’s weather. Mid month looking a bit dodgy in terms of temperatures, but hopefully not a washout. It’s these kind of set ups that can mean low pressure can get stuck over The UK and rain for ages. Too far off for that kind of detail.

But then the end of March and 1st week of April hardly suggested what much of April turned out to be

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

Good afternoon all, happy first day of May! The GFS 06z has a high developing over the British Isles on day 5, so hopefully we will see some settled and perhaps warmer weather for a time.

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  • Location: Cambridge, UK
  • Weather Preferences: Summer > Spring > Winter > Autumn :-)
  • Location: Cambridge, UK
1 hour ago, johnholmes said:

But then the end of March and 1st week of April hardly suggested what much of April turned out to be

This is true - but now that the final warming has happened, we have that to contend with. All part of the fun!

 

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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 general theme going on the models suggest a settled spell next week and largely dry with sunny spells.. Perhaps similar to back in April... Beyond that the signs of a general cool down and at times unsettled.. Exeter hinting at a warming up towards the final 3rd and more settled again.. I think singularity also hinted at this in an earlier post.. So if that's the way it's gonna be... I will take it.. In the shorter term some decent weather to come one hopes. 

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

A pretty grim-looking GFS 06Z, but at least there's one decent run in the GEFS ensembles!:oldlaugh:

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It's the trendsetter!!!

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

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Almost unanimous ensemble agreement for some cooler weather setting in after the first week is on the mild to warm side. This tying in with an expected moved to -AO and -NAO with high pressure building over Greenland and the pole. Could be good if you like convection and spring showers. If you like the warmth and sunshine, enjoy every bit of what’s coming next week, because it may be a little while before it returns.

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

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Could be the first proper -AO of 2020. The AO has been strongly and record breakingly positive at times through the winter, feeding back to the record strong PV, and also the reason it was so wet with devastating floods in the UK. 

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  • Location: Rotherhithe, 5.8M ASL
  • Location: Rotherhithe, 5.8M ASL

Incredible -NAO pattern on latest ECM locked in a very chilly pattern there. More chance of verifying with death of polar vortex and it is of course May.

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

Evening all, just had a look at the ECM 12z... more settled and perhaps warmer weather could be on the cards for next week. However, low pressure out in the Atlantic could bring some spells of rain for parts of the SW, and then into next weekend there could be a spell of perhaps more unsettled weather.

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If you're planning to take your barbecue out soon, next week is surely the chance!

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Take care and enjoy the rest of your evening. :oldsmile:

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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

Brace yaself for some sunning next week, get the lawns cut, perhaps chill and have a beer of the evening... Then get ya ice scrapers ready for the following week, wouldn't be surprised to see a bit of wintryness over those mountains with that set up... Alot can change though.. So let's just see how it unfolds... Do take care. 

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  • Location: Kirkheaton, Huddersfield
  • Weather Preferences: Sunny days and balmy evenings.
  • Location: Kirkheaton, Huddersfield
On 29/04/2020 at 19:31, Zak M said:

By the looks of it... the ECM joins in!!

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If that cold spell was to happen, am I right in thinking it could be very damaging to crops? I remember my parents always worried about frosts once the fruit trees had blossomed?

The recent spell of settled weather showed a breakdown to northwestern blocking but it didn't materialise, let's hope it doesn't this time either (although it's looking ominous)

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  • Location: Rotherhithe, 5.8M ASL
  • Location: Rotherhithe, 5.8M ASL
1 hour ago, mb018538 said:

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Almost unanimous ensemble agreement for some cooler weather setting in after the first week is on the mild to warm side. This tying in with an expected moved to -AO and -NAO with high pressure building over Greenland and the pole. Could be good if you like convection and spring showers. If you like the warmth and sunshine, enjoy every bit of what’s coming next week, because it may be a little while before it returns.

The EPS from this morning offers strong support for a similar solution, potential for noteworthy cool weather in Europe.

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  • Location: South Oxfordshire
  • Location: South Oxfordshire

FOR SOMETHING'S SAKE... we're bound to get frost now, I've just planted out all my seedlings this afternoon...  

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  • Location: East Ham, London
  • Location: East Ham, London

Evening all

Another day of April showers in lowland East London - not quite as sharp as yesterday but we're a long way from summer yet.

So, what of this evening's offerings from the models as we head further into the new month?

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The T+240 charts tonight from ECM, GEM, GFS OP and GFS Control

The first thing to say is the GFS OP looks out on its own tonight but even that has some heights over Greenland whereas both ECM and GFS Control have very strong blocking over Greenland so it becomes a question of modelling the trough. ECM has the kind of chart which, if it was at T+6 in early January, would have many salivating uncontrollably. It's a uniformly cold and bleak chart for the British Isles with a strong NE'ly flow bringing plenty of rain or showers. GFS Control has the trough rather further north over Scandinavia so the NE'ly becomes a N'ly or NNW'ly with pockets of -8 850s over Scotland which suggests snow for the mountains.

GEM plays a different game with more extensive blocking from Greenland to the north of the British Isles so the flow is more E or ESE over most parts so dry and fine conditions with decent temperatures by day but a risk of frost at night (for both ECM and GFS Control there would also be a strong likelihood of rural ground frost under any clear skies).

As for the GFS OP, the key difference is the core of heights never becomes established over Greenland but sinks SE back toward the British Isles and by T+240 there are weak heights over us keeping the weather fine and dry. Again reasonable day time values but chilly evenings.

As I've stated before, none of this is unusual for May - as Michael Ventrice points out, the collapse of the PV often allows for a negative NAO/AO regime in May. In some years, the block is over Scandinavia as we saw last week and the British Isles benefits from clear skies and warm sunshine but if the block retrogresses to the NW, the air flow shifts to the north-east or north and that just draws in the cold air from north Scandinavia or the Arctic. In addition, we see lower pressure over Europe in response and that either leaves us in the ECM situation (at the sweet spot between the pressure systems) or under the influence of the trough to the east. Either way, it's cool if not cold and unsettled but this is the Buchan cold spell which we often see in early May. It lasts 7-10 days and what often happens is the Atlantic moves back in before the summer pattern asserts. 

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

ECM is truly awful at day 7-10 tonight. You can still get decent weather in an -NAO set up, but that certainly isn’t it! GEM isn’t bad in comparison. More than likely an unsettled outlier.

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