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Model Output Discussion - Staying cold into the new year


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  • Location: Yarm , Middlesbrough
  • Weather Preferences: snow
  • Location: Yarm , Middlesbrough

dorset , 

 

sorry not sure where you got those temperatures from but they are wrong , been watching the weather for four decades and those numbers are wrong , usually the north sea changes slowly month to month and not as quick as you show , but thanks for the info 

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  • Location: Wyke regis overlooking Chesil beach.
  • Weather Preferences: Snowfall
  • Location: Wyke regis overlooking Chesil beach.

GFS moves towards UKMO early on then eventually loses the plot in la la land. I await the ECM with interest.

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  • Location: South Essex
  • Location: South Essex

Unusual to see GFS, GEM and ECM looking so similar at day 10 (and in a good way!!). 

If were looking at that set up in 10 days time it would potentially be a lot colder than the current 'Mouse from the Med' easterly .

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  • Location: Leicester
  • Location: Leicester
1 hour ago, Steve Murr said:

Yes UKMO still all kinky at 72 ☃️☃️

Steve that means we will find out on the t72 chart whether ecm follows ukmo or not?love the close up charts you do with the circles to point out the differences mate!!to the naked eye and at a quick glance you would think ecm and ukmo look the same!!

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  • Location: Ponteland
  • Location: Ponteland
1 minute ago, Doctor96 said:

dorset , 

 

sorry not sure where you got those temperatures from but they are wrong , been watching the weather for four decades and those numbers are wrong , usually the north sea changes slowly month to month and not as quick as you show , but thanks for the info 

The temperature I quoted is just offshore I presumed and I got it from the web

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  • Location: G.Manchester
  • Location: G.Manchester
12 minutes ago, Doctor96 said:

Is the north sea colder than it should be at this time of year .below is the forecast for mid January and it shows the middle of north sea 6 C . I am sure this is 1-2C colder than our normal years and will have an effect on the est coast  marginal areas .

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Sea surface temperatures are well in to single figures (7 - 9  C) and this equates to 1.5° C - 2.5° C above normal:

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  • Location: Croydon. South London. 161 ft asl
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, snow, warm sunny days.
  • Location: Croydon. South London. 161 ft asl

I think that would be cold enough for snow if the lows slides under

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2 minutes ago, Steve Murr said:

 

West based NAO Summary

* Is usually poor for the UK because the cold air usually filters SSW west of Iceland towards the azores & this is where the low pressure settles - as a result this encourages high pressure over France & warm SW Winds over England... 

This situation usually manifiests it 'worse' when we go straight to a WNAO from the standard westerly pattern > its a worse case scenario.

* WNAO from a strong ENAO is fine.

This is because before the high transitions west from the core over Greenland it will nearly always leave residual over heights to our South & crucially east > as well as a node of high pressure over Scandi-

As a result of this the normal low swinging south out of iceland will be butting into continental cold from the East so the WNAO is negated. - It can be a snow maker.

Par example from the GEFS

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The only time the SE can get snow from a sliding south as cold air is ahead of the front...

It ls worth highlighting again that in 50 - 60 years of archive reviewing the 'classic' <0c CET months have multiple repetitive cycles like this within 4 weeks to keep the UK cold.

To get a shot like 1963 you need about 10 cycles over 8-10 weeks. We are at number 1.

 

This is surely an equally distributed profile of -NAO pressure?

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  • Location: Essex Riviera aka Burnham
  • Weather Preferences: 30 Degrees of pure British Celsius
  • Location: Essex Riviera aka Burnham
10 minutes ago, Doctor96 said:

Is the north sea colder than it should be at this time of year .below is the forecast for mid January and it shows the middle of north sea 6 C . I am sure this is 1-2C colder than our normal years and will have an effect on the est coast  marginal areas .

Coastal areas of Eastern England are currently slightly above normal and presently dropping by approx 0.2c a day. Hartlepool 7.5c, Scarborough 8c, Grimsby 6.2c,  Cromer 7c Lowestoft 7.2c, Clacton 7.1c - biggest anomalies in the North Sea are over towards the Dutch side. Central North Sea is slightly warmer than normal by a degree or so but not excessive. Biggest problems as mentioned are the 850's and DP's.

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  • Location: Yarm , Middlesbrough
  • Weather Preferences: snow
  • Location: Yarm , Middlesbrough

optimus , thanks but that is pre 2000 figures , honestly we are much colder in north sea than anytime i can recall since 2000.  With the up comming easterly  , i think the usual wet snow on east coast may be less marginal in later January as north sea is much colder. 

 

usually an easterly never gives us east coast snow in the north until february  , lets see what SSW comes and the effect may be superb for the east 

 

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  • Location: Essex Riviera aka Burnham
  • Weather Preferences: 30 Degrees of pure British Celsius
  • Location: Essex Riviera aka Burnham
14 minutes ago, Griff said:

Happy New year....  

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That's what we need a higher latitude Russian HP...GFS 12z still rather sucking towards us low latitude easterlies, that would be cold on the GFSp but too far ahead to take seriously.

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  • Location: Near Gouda, Holland. 6m Below Sea Level.
  • Weather Preferences: Sun, snow, ice. Very hot or very cold.
  • Location: Near Gouda, Holland. 6m Below Sea Level.
4 minutes ago, Steve Murr said:

It ls worth highlighting again that in 50 - 60 years of archive reviewing the 'classic' <0c CET months have multiple repetitive cycles like this within 4 weeks to keep the UK cold.

To get a shot like 1963 you need about 10 cycles over 8-10 weeks. We are at number 1.

 

That is crucial to understand about severe winters. It is never a pattern set in stone for weeks on end, it is waxing and waning constantly.

The raging vortex usually limits (or ends)  the number of cycles, but this year our hope is that Weak Vortex+Great pattern+SSW will let these cycles continue...
We'll see!

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  • Location: Aldridge, West Midlands, 161m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: All the Interesting stuff
  • Location: Aldridge, West Midlands, 161m ASL
26 minutes ago, Mike Poole said:

Genuine question, all this talk of a west-based -NAO, can anyone post a chart of when we last had one, a proper one?  

Because I don’t think it is relevant to the current evolution, yes the blocking might be west, but for it to be a bad setup for UK, it would need a substantial low to be even further SW, no?

Is this west Based?

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  • Location: Solihull, WestMidlands, 121m asl -20 :-)
  • Weather Preferences: Cold and Snow -20 would be nice :)
  • Location: Solihull, WestMidlands, 121m asl -20 :-)
16 minutes ago, Cuban Zebra said:

Why are people picking out 384 hr charts and stating them as fact that the cold won’t be happening! 
 

There is so much to play for in the short term!!!! Just enjoy and stop looking for the end before it starts!!

Absolutely...does anyone know what’s happening on the 5th January or what!!! ....well hopefully regarding SSW anyway

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  • Location: Essex Riviera aka Burnham
  • Weather Preferences: 30 Degrees of pure British Celsius
  • Location: Essex Riviera aka Burnham

The turd that is the CFS currently similar at 120z to other outputs but drops the trough to the north over us (again) and fills in situ, so no easterly.

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  • Location: Wantage, Oxon
  • Weather Preferences: Hot, cold!
  • Location: Wantage, Oxon
17 minutes ago, D.V.R said:

I think that would be cold enough for snow if the lows slides under

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Never seen so much white since Meteociel introduced it on their charts a couple of years ago, but...where’s the other testicle?  

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  • Location: Port Of Ness.
  • Weather Preferences: Cold weather in winter
  • Location: Port Of Ness.
8 minutes ago, Cold Winter Night said:

That is crucial to understand about severe winters. It is never a pattern set in stone for weeks on end, it is waxing and waning constantly.

The raging vortex usually limits (or ends)  the number of cycles, but this year our hope is that Weak Vortex+Great pattern+SSW will let these cycles continue...
We'll see!

I believe multiple repetitive cycles are a pattern.

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  • Location: Wantage, Oxon
  • Weather Preferences: Hot, cold!
  • Location: Wantage, Oxon
11 minutes ago, phil b said:

Is this west Based?

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Maybe for the high, but the key thing is the low pressure system propping up such a high,  and there isn’t one.  This is my point.  The highs can go as far west as they like at the moment...there is no energy underneath.  

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  • Location: Hadleigh, Suffolk
  • Weather Preferences: An Alpine climate - snowy winters and sunny summers
  • Location: Hadleigh, Suffolk
12 minutes ago, Doctor96 said:

optimus , thanks but that is pre 2000 figures , honestly we are much colder in north sea than anytime i can recall since 2000.  With the up comming easterly  , i think the usual wet snow on east coast may be less marginal in later January as north sea is much colder. 

 

usually an easterly never gives us east coast snow in the north until february  , lets see what SSW comes and the effect may be superb for the east 

 

This discussion is in danger of derailing the thread, but as easterlies off the North Sea are in the forecast, maybe worth trying to pin the answer down. From the two sites I use the North Sea temps are currently above long-term average. First the Met Office:

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Source: http://ghrsst-pp.metoffice.gov.uk/ostia-website/sstbrowser.html

Next from Surf Forecast.com:

SST 186245441_SSTUnitedKingdom.thumb.jpg.70b6e8c44e1a656d1ebfe51825cdc07b.jpg Anomaly 2013068588_SSTUnitedKingdom.sstanomaly.thumb.jpg.6deba2939cd6b31c7baeb8be3ebfd989.jpg

Source: https://www.surf-forecast.com/current-maps/United-Kingdom/sea-surface-temperatures

Maybe you could tell us the source of your info as it looks incorrect.

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  • Location: Solihull, West Midlands. - 131 m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Sun, Snow and Storms
  • Location: Solihull, West Midlands. - 131 m asl
2 hours ago, Midlands Ice Age said:

Good post Andy...

 

I will always remember the reconstructed charts shown that book  reviewing  the coldest winter in hundreds of years.  (think the one I mainly phantisize about was for 1689?? clearly a reconstruction), when temperatures were kept between -15C - 18C for a whole day in an easterly severe gale, in the SE of England.

The chart was I thought impossible to ever reproduce.

It showed high pressure over Siberia stretching thru Scandy to Greenland. Low pressure was lined up from the Azores thru the Med to Turkey. Can we get somewhere near that, whilst I am still alive? 

It is my one wish... thou I do worry about the social impacts of such a thing!!

MIA

 

 

24 minutes ago, D.V.R said:

I think that would be cold enough for snow if the lows slides under

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Hey....

Just stop this now.

It is 7/8 of the way to my fantasy.  (spelt correctly!)

You cannot destroy it.... otherwise I will have nothing to live for!! 

MIA

 

 

 

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  • Location: STEVENAGE, HERTS (100M ASL)
  • Location: STEVENAGE, HERTS (100M ASL)

Ensembles show we are on for further snow chasing for at least the next 10 days. A few very cold runs showing now as well ??

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To find out whether the neg NAO is west based or east based do the following. Take the mean 500mb height value for Southern Greenland from the mean value for the Azores & an area about 200 miles west of Azores to derive value 1. Do the same between midway point Iceland/Scandi and north Iberia to Italy for value 2. Take value 1 from value 2. 

A high value = west based -NAO tendency and vice versa. 

Apply this to this frame & it's -44 = central based / slightly east based so whilst there is a -NAO signature out west it also has a significant east component. Bit technical but thought this would be of interest.

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