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Cool ish, v pleasant day more of this would be superb.

Cheers @cheshire snow

Hi, how can you decipher that from the above? all I'm seeing is a mishmash of letters,numbers and so on.

You guys and girls have seen an awful lot of rain but it appears you may start the New Year with some snow; the uppers are not bad. The wind is coming off the Irish Sea, you will need to be inland to stand a chance very reasonable of that. Something to sink your teeth into.

I know we tend to look ahead in here. But as 2016 begins it seems parts of UK, could see some snow to welcome the New Year - to low levels as well!

None of the storms have had an impact on London & SE all predominately being northern/western affairs with the jet stream going S this may change. The focus draws to Southern England the SW in particular.

Morocco has the Atlas Mountain range, low lying snow in Morocco is incredibly rare, a few mountains rise to 4,000 meters usually without fail every winter the mountains receive snow, I'm not quite sure how much. Parts of Mexico which had white pixels have at least 1,500m of elevation it helps- very sparsely populated/mountainous areas. As far south as it got I'd say that is very infrequent as I've not seen anything like the sort before.

Aye @ReindeerMarmalade Heavy rain better late than never!

WOW - that caravan is going through an ordeal.

Better from ECM Continental feed with cold pool much further west - there could be some snow flurries out of that. I think we could build on from this...

That's exactly what is being modelled the flood impacted areas are going to have a much needed respite as the jet stream goes south, so us more southern folk will bear the brunt of the rain and all its "goodies". This month is running on a near 50% deficit compared to average December rainfall totals, so I cannot complain really, but I will in my head. I am still not dismissing us seeing some snow on the first half of January, but I'm not entirely hopeful on this, I know at least northern hemisphere profile is looking increasingly ripe for further bites of the cherry, it has gone above freezing 90N courtesy of Storm Frank dragging up very mild air to the pole and I find that extraordinary. I'll be keeping a close eye in the strat thread. I am calling for at least one significant cold outbreak before this winter is out.

Yep, one poster has called this month wonderful? That is a WTF moment! I do not think it helps when we use terms like coldies/mildies as if we're at war with each over (however that's debatable). In summer I like hot weather in winter I like cold weather seasonality is upmost important to me, and typically the cold weather brings the littlest disruption to daily life. I'm sure the folk to the north west would rather have snow markedly more than this endless rain. If you seek v mild unseasonable temperatures - prepare to endure without complaint, what accompanies it.

Please do not, I enjoy reading your posts. A large forum contains vibrant personalities, the forum does seem to have turned more territorial who can outdo who, and that's not how it should be. There is a ignore feature I've never used it myself, it will turn more cheery if a cold spell looms. Folk get grouchy w/this cr@p.

Yes I believe in the first week of February much of the country experienced significant snowfall as Atlantic clashed against the bitterly cold air entrenched to the east. This particular day was very snowy I think:

You missed Feb 2012 it was very cold in eastern half of the country. No one has said that? Although we did have a cluster of cold winters its easy to think summat is up, this run we're having of mild, wet driven winters is not unheard of, we'll get another 1947 one day as well as the opposite to this. The winter is really in its infancy it is too early to say as a whole the winter has panned out, I'm not with this winter of the future malarkey.

I would say so.. I'd have thought if it were not for such I reckon we'd be entrenched in THIS for winter 15/16. The knock-on effects may not be truly known by the models at this stage, with WAA ongoing. The great escape is on?

The E4 cocked this one up. l

Thanks for link.. Incredible the WAA gets to 90N.

A very wet, drip day rain setting in for the afternoon, quite heavy rain of that more lighter and patchy for East Anglia, and then it'll eventually clear for the bulk of us towards Midnight.

Much of Europe is cold tonight but the UK sticks out like a sore thumb. For our latitude it is a sad sight but "thanks" to that great expanse of water and warm ocean currents it's always a battle. Another winter scorcher of a day top temp 14C with some sunshine - I must say, this is even worse than 13/14 winter so far and that takes some doing.

Eastern Europe is set to experience a chill Although back in Blighty the cold pool to the E does not really look to make much advancement into Western Europe.

I expect you will see some snow showers rattle through at your elevation ASL courtesy of a brisk westerly flow.

Noticing a trend of +ve heights wanting to cross over to Greenland, potential retrogression of Kara Sea block to Greenland in the longer term? Again a very wet or very snow picture is on the cards for the northern half of the country next week. I currently favour the latter 70:30, mirroring a similar story to Nov/Dec 2009...

That is not bad looking I believe that is a split jet, clearly disrupted, not what we're experiencing at this present time, with the Atlantic train heading straight at us, so to speak. It shows the jet stream taking a meridonal flow into Western Europe. You can gather blocking is having an lingering infulence to the NE, with one arm of the jet plunging S into mediterranean sea wouldn't take much westward adjustments for UK to be on the cold side of jet stream, most importantly that is 17 days out. I think the models are struggling around day 5!