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  • Location: HANDSWORTH BIRMINGHAM B21. 130MASL. 427FT.
  • Weather Preferences: WINTERS WITH HEAVY DISRUPTIVE SNOWFALL AVRAGE SPRING HOT SUMMERS.
  • Location: HANDSWORTH BIRMINGHAM B21. 130MASL. 427FT.
On 12/11/2020 at 00:27, SLEETY said:

That's about the only time the met office forecast of HLB actually came off in 2010,other times when they forecast it the opposite happened. So don't get this idea they are always accurate when they forecast HLB during the winter months. They are WRONG most the time regarding long_range 

A Computer doesn't actually make the weather remember

  they don’t get it right all the time how ever well predicting mild and Atlantic crap for the UK most of the time they are right and the November long-range update for the winter does not fill me with confidence most likely we will get a another crappy mild Atlantic crap for the next three months of winter just like the last few years. then again living in the UK we shouldn’t expect any decent winter they are very rare for here sadly.

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  • Location: NW LONDON
  • Weather Preferences: Sun, sleet, Snow
  • Location: NW LONDON
19 hours ago, TSNWK said:

Nice try.. but 1st WIO post was last week.. can we make October next year

I already posted that winter was over in October because the OFI was zero

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  • Location: Leeds/Bradford border, 185 metres above sea level, around 600 feet
  • Location: Leeds/Bradford border, 185 metres above sea level, around 600 feet

Although tropical convection may be abnormally active (not actually that bad come December onwards) it is worth noting that there are two similar years..

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Both years stayed abnormally active through winter as the La Nina weakened.

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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)
3 hours ago, booferking said:

Slider vile has commenced early this year :snowman-emoji:

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There's nothing vile about those charts

anyway....yeah! lol

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  • Location: Scouthead Oldham 295mASL
  • Location: Scouthead Oldham 295mASL

Updated ECM Winter pressure maps still pointing to a blocked Atlantic in December ..

Simon Lee has posted it on twitter.

 

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  • Location: sheffield
  • Weather Preferences: cold ,snow
  • Location: sheffield
12 minutes ago, northwestsnow said:

Updated ECM Winter pressure maps still pointing to a blocked Atlantic in December ..

Simon Lee has posted it on twitter.

 

Indeed along with ukmo and metio france

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  • Location: Ireland, probably South Tipperary
  • Weather Preferences: Cold, Snow, Windstorms and Thunderstorms
  • Location: Ireland, probably South Tipperary

 

I assume this is what's being referred to. Quite a few straws in there for us to clutch!

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  • Location: Kensington
  • Location: Kensington
6 minutes ago, northwestsnow said:

Yes, updated ECM looks pretty good to me...

It does  looking decent for December    interesting  the zonal winds are not a disaster either   even for January   looks like at this juncture  early winter is our best chance 

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6 hours ago, SLEETY said:

despite global warming etc,we still  seem to be able to get severe cold like Nov, dec 2010 and  march 2013 where even here on South coast had 3ft snow drifts mid month then severe cold spell end of feb  2018 into March 2018 with coldest ever march max temps,recorded.

 

So maybe more extreme both ends of the scale.

Glosea bust already?☺️

How can a DJF forecast be bust in November??  

 

The bottom line here is that the seasonal forecast smooths the 3 months into an anomaly, if the heights are below average for Greenland then across the 12 week period its expected that there will not be any sustained blocking as this would produce a positive signal.

The reason its smoothed is to avoid trying to pinpoint a cold spell within a fixed period of time.

You keep going on about the UKMO seasonal being wrong & it cant tell all that time in advance but at a seasonal level you are just not correct.

 

going back to 2009 Year UKMO seasonal gone with Greenland blocking = 2

2009 & 2010

Actual smoothed Anomalies > Remarkably accurate.

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Look at 16 - Scuero High

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Now positive NAO -

2019 Awsome match

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2015

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Again remarkable.

 

So the meto seasonal should be considered one of the leading most accurate forecasts out there. 

Its great the end of November might bear some snow for the UK however thats not a huge input on the seasonals.

S

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  • Location: Southside Glasgow (135m)
  • Weather Preferences: Beginning with S ending with W ;)
  • Location: Southside Glasgow (135m)
2 hours ago, northwestsnow said:

Updated ECM Winter pressure maps still pointing to a blocked Atlantic in December ..

Simon Lee has posted it on twitter.

 

And this is how they looked for November - based on October runs. With now half way through November almost, this can show how well (or not) they are faring for November.

Should add someone on here mentioned about DWD being one of few models who didn't go for 18/19 winter blocking. Compared to October run for December, the most recent DWD run goes for stronger blocking in mid Atlantic and towards Greenland. 

 

 

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  • Location: sheffield
  • Weather Preferences: cold ,snow
  • Location: sheffield
1 hour ago, Steve Murr said:

On a lighter note for December in isolation...

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A few tumblers in there...

 

How do you see or think December may pan out Steve given the decent ukmo outlook on today's update

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  • Location: sheffield
  • Weather Preferences: cold ,snow
  • Location: sheffield
5 minutes ago, daz_4 said:

Well this wouldn't be a bad start at all for winter season in Central Europe.

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Great for skiing esp⛷️

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  • Location: Crewe, Cheshire
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, storms and other extremes
  • Location: Crewe, Cheshire

Liking the look of the EC seasonal. Keeps the core of low heights to the E of Greenland even through Jan and Feb. This means we would never be out of the game for surprise snow events e.g snow on N flank of runners etc.

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

Good points about seasonal model profiles, these will always show an average out picture, give you a general flavour, but not enough to say what conditions would be from one week to the next. You could for example have 3 weeks with a zonal west-east flow and a week with a northerly flow, the average skewed to the zonal west-east.

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  • Location: Northwich south cheshire 35m or 114ft above sea le
  • Weather Preferences: snowy winters,warm summers and Storms
  • Location: Northwich south cheshire 35m or 114ft above sea le
1 minute ago, Weather-history said:

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Don't let @Day 10 see that chart

C.S

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  • Location: Scunthorpe
  • Location: Scunthorpe
5 hours ago, northwestsnow said:

Updated ECM Winter pressure maps still pointing to a blocked Atlantic in December ..

Simon Lee has posted it on twitter.

 

 

5 hours ago, northwestsnow said:

^^ 

To me EC looks more inclined to offer genuine heights in the North Atlantic.

But yes, no sign of a raging zonal setup at this juncture.

 

4 hours ago, weirpig said:

It does  looking decent for December    interesting  the zonal winds are not a disaster either   even for January   looks like at this juncture  early winter is our best chance 

Maybe the perfect reaction to the La Nina seemingly shifting weaker again and more EP based again recently

Compare the La Nina on the latest anomaly chart with the one from a couple of weeks back

Nov 1st                                                       Latest

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That is what we want to see, coming back from the brink of a possible strong La Nina and curtains for winter event. Now it is more weak/moderate again so winter is back on again

Now which of these Nina types do you think best fits the latest pattern

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CP La Nina                                                 Mixed La Nina                                         EP La Nina

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Hope the precipitation forecast for 21st November comes off, right in the firing line for that snow event in Scunthorpe

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Getting off to an early start to winter if that comes off

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  • Location: Lincolnshire - 15m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Frost and snow. A quiet autumn day is also good.
  • Location: Lincolnshire - 15m asl

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The more I browse and the more I stare at the current data and projected impacts the more I find myself looking to an SSW to deliver the goods (again). I still think it will start cool, maybe chilly in early December, but everything is lining up for +NAO influence for the most part after that. Nina too strong...QBO in the wrong phase...north pacific remaining too warm. 

The forecast chart above is by no means catastrophic for SSW hopes. A strong but relatively withdrawn north pacific high can allow low pressures to zip through the aleutians and on to the rockies, and a sceuro high remains a building block for vertical warming in Russia, offering chances for a spanner in the spokes wave 2 moment.

We will see. I think, once the first half of December has passed, we may need a great deal of patience this season............

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

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The more I browse and the more I stare at the current data and projected impacts the more I find myself looking to an SSW to deliver the goods (again). I still think it will start cool, maybe chilly in early December, but everything is lining up for +NAO influence for the most part after that. Nina too strong...QBO in the wrong phase...north pacific remaining too warm. 

The forecast chart above is by no means catastrophic for SSW hopes. A strong but relatively withdrawn north pacific high can allow low pressures to zip through the aleutians and on to the rockies, and a sceuro high remains a building block for vertical warming in Russia, offering chances for a spanner in the spokes wave 2 moment.

We will see. I think, once the first half of December has passed, we may need a great deal of patience this season............

Look again quite a warm up in last 2 weeks In 3.4 region a strong Niña event is not expected this winter will be weak-moderate. The QBO is confusing to me, but easterlies have strengthened in lower atmosphere which is most important. Things look much more promising than last few to me. There wasn’t enough drivers. 

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