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  1. Well that was a rogue December then...I too agree December probably pips November when it comes to +NAO and dull, wet miserable days. December 2016 the UK largely experienced high pressure at first over the country and then to the south or south east for most of the month...drier than normal conditions but not surprisingly with such a pattern still milder than average with frosts only becoming more frequent in the last week.

  2. 19 minutes ago, damianslaw said:

    Its November, probably most consistently unsettled atlantic dr8ven month of the year.. settled cold ones are rare. To be expected as you say.

    Still seems a long time since we 've had a coldish, frosty, foggy one even by UK standards...I can remember several like that back in the 70's/80's.

     

    20 minutes ago, Summer8906 said:

    To be fair though we might get a rare fine interlude this time next week, with an unusual combination of mild and sunny, perhaps.

    The only pattern change we seem to get now if not unsettled with LP closer to the country is then for a drier mild/warm southerly to set in...sad times.

    No doubt our climate is getting less varied.

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  3. 2 minutes ago, Don said:

    Don't know about that?!  But yes, it will almost certainly be in excess of 2C above the 61-90 average.

    By and large the end figure does 'seem' to be corrected downwards...one of the mildest Octobers I can remember, roses and flowers in bloom, grass growing, goldfish at the surface of the pond needing oxygen - all signs things ain't normal.

  4. 1 hour ago, Ed Stone said:

    True, Damain -- but that's been the case since early June or so; the Atlantic still hasn't broken through the European heat dome. At least not decisively?

    Exactly! ECM finishes where it left off with the Atlantic systems so far north we end up with another plume (of sorts)...as you say the most dominant continuous feature of the last few months. I've heard a few say we can get our own UK cold pool if we have HP close to the UK but at best I reckon we'll be looking at near daily norms if we're talking into December...still so warm on the continent, we're really scraping >

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  5. It was quite a bit colder in late September than it is now...that period seems the only noteworthy spell we've had this year with temps below normal for a week or tad more. As poster weatherhistory alluded to the other day you'd think all the mild/warm conditions which has lasted months has to come to an end sooner or later after all isn't weather meant to be 'chaotic' even if it is for only a week or two.

    Big question is when will we get the next cooler than average month (1961-90 CET series)?...be good if we had a run of cooler months this Winter.

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  6. 2 hours ago, Don said:

    Yep, any colder weather being put back and the s word has been dropped.  Been here before and alarm bells now well and truly ringing for the next season!!

    Said that EC46 was about as accurate as Stevie Wonder at darts...huge dose of salt as soon as I saw it, latest ECM mixed at 240z and still when Lp's get near the UK has the tendency to want to move northwards away from Europe where the continuous heat bubble continues.

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  7. 10 hours ago, Don said:

    Why do you think that?

    Just the ever present greenhouse of Europe...not necessarily a sw/ne jet (maybe at times) maybe some Pm air in the jet but not at all convinced of the latest ec46 mslp anomaly charts for November...we've seen them be well out over recent Winters.

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  8. After watching the ECM det runs for numerous days now I have to say I'm absolutely bored!...current trend is to make it even more unsettled with somewhat more of an Atlantic influence but STILL with low heights to our west and still mild/warm. I'll go as far to say that when we do have a pattern change it will be back to zonal with a sw/ne jet stream...exciting stuff! 

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  9. 8 minutes ago, damianslaw said:

    Its a stuck pattern for the foreseeable, trough to our west/sw, ridge to our east, mean flow predominantly between west and south. Mild for all, very mild further SE.

    Longer term, need to wait for upstream changes, will the pattern shift east.. or west..  will we see something akin to GFS 12z, which shows the ridge backing west and south west.. and then NE bringing a scandi high. One thing that seems absent is a powering of the jet.. leading to a very slow moving pattern, we've seen this since Dec 2020, la nina base state possible reason..

    Where has the zonal flow gone? 

    It's waiting til' Winter proper gets underway 🙂 but agree with your summarisation of the current situation, day after day of the same stuff and warm continent...almost a stuck west based QBO.

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