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  • Location: Rotherhithe, 5.8M ASL
  • Location: Rotherhithe, 5.8M ASL
2 minutes ago, SLEETY said:

With any cold spell that might affect the UK,until it reaches down to around +96 hours on the models then think that its NOT going to happen.

It will save you a lot of heartache in the end,the amount of times I have seen cold spells evaporate  before they count down to the reliable timeframe in the output,yet if its mild being shown...........

To be fair most models are only hinting at snap from north not a blockbuster 2010 style cold spell. We will see our Atlantic amplification so that’s one big hurdle overcome. My experience the models do much better with northerlies than easterlies.

it’s unusual to see such good agreement...  

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  • Location: Woodchurch, Kent.
  • Weather Preferences: Storm, drizzle
  • Location: Woodchurch, Kent.

A white christmas looking possible, a fresh day today.

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Late December Gefs looking great.

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Gefs Control has a great Christmas day @Steve Murr come back we've seen a great run.Polar high doing it's job.

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To qoute @Northwest NIimage.thumb.png.4202b6bc8b52a79323bc655f9f546937.png

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  • Location: Maidstone, Kent
  • Weather Preferences: Anything below 0c or above 20c. Also love a good thunderstorm!
  • Location: Maidstone, Kent

Good morning all, really informative posts as ever!

Yes I'm not a fan of watching for cold further than 3 days off. 

Here's the ensemble from the start of December, we had a potential snow event round the corner and loads of models were pointing to a real cold spell. I was gradually getting sucked in when, oh... uh oh... a mild GFS outlier popped up! 

Quite simply the Atlantic is always trying to fight back and the models are very familiar with its' moves. This means that if even one or two runs show what we have today, they're probably right!

Look at it this way, less money on heating!

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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.
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  • Location: St Austell,Cornwall
  • Location: St Austell,Cornwall
16 minutes ago, SLEETY said:

With any cold spell that might affect the UK,until it reaches down to around +96 hours on the models then think that its NOT going to happen.

It will save you a lot of heartache in the end,the amount of times I have seen cold spells evaporate  before they count down to the reliable timeframe in the output,yet if its mild being shown...........

Seeing a few posts saying "it's happening"

I'm a fan of cold but being 11 days away I wouldn't get excited yet

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  • Location: Liphook
  • Location: Liphook
43 minutes ago, Catacol said:

Heavyweight strat experts are beginning to agree that the answer is yes....but none are seeing it this side of New Year. The best end solution for us would be a split rather than displaced vortex SSW and for this to happen - and this won’t be a popular statement for some! - we could do with amplification after Xmas producing another Russian ridge. The strongest wave 2 impacts are produced this way and not from one over Greenland. So - I guess watchers here have to decide whether they want to put their faith in a shorter term mild solution with potential longer term Beast benefits (no guarantee....) via a Russkie/Scandy block or not worry about the vortex and instead seek a Greenland High over New Year in the hope of shorter term cold. For me it has to be the wave 2 end product. MetO text is suggesting a shift to mild and wet into January and if this is because we have a U.K. trough up against another Scandy or ScEuro or ideally ScRusskie high then I’m happy with that. 

Of course the golden bullet would be for the Scandi/Russian high to be strong enough that it actually keeps the southerlies out in the Atlantic at least for a time and allows us to tap into a colder easterly/south easterly (something the GFS ensembles in the longer term are hinting at being possible) and then perhaps end up with a battleground situation. That way we obviously gain potential wave 2 impacts as well as having a short term realistic risk of snow and cold towards the back end of Dec.

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

Monday 14 December 500mb update

Ec-gfs:- Only fairly small changes in both but the result means that the ridging causes the 500 flow to veer to n of w as it moves into the uk. Also for the first time in a longish time the contour heights have fallen over the uk?

Noaa has a slightly less flat/westerly flow in the far west. The trough, in the past 24-48 hours is shown as having moving east and the minor buckle in the flow ahead also and increased very slightly. Both these are needed IF any cold air via any meridional flow east of this is to develop.

So in summary, a slightly better looking set of charts for 6-10 days ahead with the 8-14 noaa not too different upstream. Give these charts 2-3 days and they should show a better idea of if any meridional flow and subsequent colder air is going to develop. Currently maybe 15-20% probable in my view.

http://mp1.met.psu.edu/~fxg1/ECMWF_0z/hgtcomp.html

 

 

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  • Location: Woodchurch, Kent.
  • Weather Preferences: Storm, drizzle
  • Location: Woodchurch, Kent.

Christmas day

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Looking like an Atlantic low across the UK on Christmas Day, with the teps we could be looking at a Merry Christmas.

Happy Xmas sorry fr my writing i'm not gonna do well on my English Gcse's:santa-emoji:

 

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  • Location: Live in NW Kent by the Thames & work in SE London
  • Weather Preferences: Snowy November to March and Sunny and warm April to October
  • Location: Live in NW Kent by the Thames & work in SE London

Better heights towards ESB on latest 6z Icon at the same timeframe vs 0z run although the purples just above between Eastern Canada and Western Greenland could prove detrimental?

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  • Location: Lincolnshire - 15m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Frost and snow. A quiet autumn day is also good.
  • Location: Lincolnshire - 15m asl
14 minutes ago, kold weather said:

Of course the golden bullet would be for the Scandi/Russian high to be strong enough that it actually keeps the southerlies out in the Atlantic at least for a time and allows us to tap into a colder easterly/south easterly (something the GFS ensembles in the longer term are hinting at being possible) and then perhaps end up with a battleground situation. That way we obviously gain potential wave 2 impacts as well as having a short term realistic risk of snow and cold towards the back end of Dec.

Not going to argue with that  - would be a complex solution to allow poleward warmth as well as easterlies at lower latitudes....but it is Xmas after all and Santa owes us 10 years of backorder presents.........

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  • Location: Orpington Kent.
  • Location: Orpington Kent.
2 minutes ago, mb018538 said:

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Well now....that's interesting!

They do look good.  But have I read that when there is only 1 cluster we should be wary.  

Although by my logic I had thought few clusters would mean less uncertainty?

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  • Location: Rotherhithe, 5.8M ASL
  • Location: Rotherhithe, 5.8M ASL
25 minutes ago, Bradley in Kent said:

Good morning all, really informative posts as ever!

Yes I'm not a fan of watching for cold further than 3 days off. 

Here's the ensemble from the start of December, we had a potential snow event round the corner and loads of models were pointing to a real cold spell. I was gradually getting sucked in when, oh... uh oh... a mild GFS outlier popped up! 

Quite simply the Atlantic is always trying to fight back and the models are very familiar with its' moves. This means that if even one or two runs show what we have today, they're probably right!

Look at it this way, less money on heating!

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Were they? Them ens look pretty unimpressive to me they did show it milder towards mid month but nowhere to this extent. We had synoptics which looked very good, but the cold air was severely lacking what you see on ground would disappoint. I’ve not once seen solid evidence of a proper cold spell this month, and still waiting. In the outlook the air which is potentially accessible is colder so I suppose that is more interesting.

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  • Location: Carryduff, County Down 420ft ASL
  • Location: Carryduff, County Down 420ft ASL
1 hour ago, Broadmayne blizzard said:

The path it takes will decide whether it's a hindrance or not. It's 850'are minus 5 to minus 10 and it's sat in a north to northwesterly air stream. 

I say that's pretty polar.

It maybe pretty polar, but it's not a Polar low.

Polar lows are only detectable/forecastable at short range, normally one or two days out, certainly not at 10 ten days.

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  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
  • Weather Preferences: Thunder, snow, heat, sunshine...
  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
9 minutes ago, TSNWK said:

They do look good.  But have I read that when there is only 1 cluster we should be wary.  

Although by my logic I had thought few clusters would mean less uncertainty?

It's nae only me, then! Surely, should the day when NWPs are anything like 100% accurate ever materialise, there would only ever be one cluster... the right one?:drunk-emoji:

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  • Location: Redhill, Surrey
  • Weather Preferences: Southerly tracking LPs, heavy snow. Also 25c and calm
  • Location: Redhill, Surrey
1 hour ago, Broadmayne blizzard said:

The path it takes will decide whether it's a hindrance or not. It's 850'are minus 5 to minus 10 and it's sat in a north to northwesterly air stream. 

I say that's pretty polar.

Agreed, on that particular run the movement from t214 to t240 suggests it’s coming at us on a NNW/SSE trajectory

 

BFTP

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  • Location: Woodchurch, Kent.
  • Weather Preferences: Storm, drizzle
  • Location: Woodchurch, Kent.
2 minutes ago, Sky High said:

Hi Sheldon, I saw your previous post where you stated you are only 13.

 

It's great that you interested and taking part at such a young age, even if you are not getting it quite right at the moment. Keep up the interest lad and in time your knowledge and experience will grow. We can then start to hang on your every word, like we do many others here.

 

Good luck with your GCSE's btw, I'm sure you'll do just fine.

Thanks any tips on reading into charts such as these

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and wether it contributes much.

 

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  • Location: Kirkburton, Huddersfield - 162.5mtrs asl.
  • Weather Preferences: Winter synoptics.Hot summers.
  • Location: Kirkburton, Huddersfield - 162.5mtrs asl.
4 minutes ago, Daniel* said:

Am I missing something. What’s interesting a toppling ridge? 

It ain't toppling while there are low heights over Genoa 

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  • Location: Woodchurch, Kent.
  • Weather Preferences: Storm, drizzle
  • Location: Woodchurch, Kent.
3 minutes ago, Daniel* said:

Am I missing something. What’s interesting a toppling ridge? 

@Daniel*the happiest guy on this Forum.

 

15 minutes ago, mb018538 said:

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Well now....that's interesting!

You never know what could happen with these.

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  • Location: Rotherhithe, 5.8M ASL
  • Location: Rotherhithe, 5.8M ASL
6 minutes ago, winterof79 said:

It ain't toppling while there are low heights over Genoa 

Ah I got confused I thought those were 3 clusters for same time period. This does look very good for longevity but a lot to happen before we get there.  
 

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  • Location: Cambridge, UK
  • Weather Preferences: Summer > Spring > Winter > Autumn :-)
  • Location: Cambridge, UK
Just now, Daniel* said:

Ah I got confused I thought those were 3 clusters for same time period. This does look very good for longevity but a lot to happen before we get there.  
 

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Looking blocked still - Atlantic and Scandi/Ural high linkup there....anything better than +NAO zonal!

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