Express at it AGAIN
Big headline - 6 INCHES OF SNOW THIS WEEKEND
Anyone seeing the headline would think it everywhere and panic, the Express take something from a northern peak or Scottish mountain and spin it to look like it's going to happen everywhere
They should be fined by the PCC for deliberately misleading people
Weird, the warnings for tomorrow have disappeared from the met office website
Maybe taken down to be updated to snow? as GFS was a significant upgrade for the SE
Decent charts today
No beast from the east or snowmageddon but a week or so of very cold temperatures, night frosts, trough disruption and more, good chance of most places to see some lying snow
Bank
Looks like the downs will get a few cm tonight, I would say about 10-15cm in the most elevated areas, but temperatures are going to be 8-9 tomorrow so I can't see any lying snow lasting long
Some incredible models from the GFS(P) and ECM though, so tonight is just a little taster of what's to come
Looks like the UK heading into the freezer in the next few days and staying in it for a considerable time, looks pretty cast in stone now that there will be a severe spell of weather
Both ECM and GFS (P) would result in snow cover not seen since Dec 2010
Party time
How do the GFS Operational run, the parallel run and the control run often show such big differences in output?
GFS is the American answer to the Met Office? Are the same team of people working on the same models or do they have different teams? just find it strange how 3 totally different types of weather in terms of models can come out of the same building
Those who wrote off winter must be feeling pretty embarrassed now
Some stunning charts, frontal snow, sliders, easterly, all in FI admittedly, but the trend is for colder weather
The cold heart of winter is coming
Amazing how the met office with their multi million pound computers and hundreds of Millions from the taxpayer have got it so massively wrong
They forecast westerlies and South westerlies for the next couple of weeks, when it is very clear that the UK is heading into the freezer in a way not seen for a couple of years
Madden now predicting 150 days of snow
http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/549619/2015-weather-forecast-UK-five-months-cold-winter
Last year he predicted 100 days of snow and got none right
NW is useless for widespread snow though, with NW sure Scotland, N Wales and the Cheshire gap would do ok but that's it, we need a NE/E to send us into the freezer and give us the deep snow everyone on this forum wants
Feb 2009 I got 16" of snow from a Thames streamer, anything is possible, feb 2009 was as a result of an SSW event too so there is still everything to play for
Anything beyond +96 is FI now so no point getting excited about what might occur 10 days + time, the models got the low at the weekend wrong even the day before, it was much further north than predicted so while eye candy is nice it is pointless getting excited atm
That band of showers across Norfolk and Suffolk is still heading towards London and southern counties, could be an eventful afternoon, the rain is turning to snow as it heads inland
A heavy looking blob just entered east Anglia and heading in the direction of London, rain atm but if that bumps into the cold air and turns to snow it could give a good covering