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  1. Downburst Just some considerations - First, obviously we are currently in an el Nino phase that started back in June last year - the point that orange line really begins to diverge from the norm. Second, The article talks about abnormally high North atlantic sea surface temperatures. I note that it was a relatively quiet hurricane season in the Atlantic basin with many of the emerging storms in the East Atlantic getting battered by wind shear and not amounting to much. So the overturn of the sea surface and the huge amounts of energy from the sea that these large hurricanes normally suck up never really occurred. No idea if these are the reasons, even if they are, that graph is rather alarming.
  2. @Audaxian @Paul what I've seen on other communities with a similar set up to what you're trialling now is that the "reply @mention" when hovered by the mouse or tapped on a mobile device brings up an overlay that shows the content from the replied-to post. Similar to what happens here where if you hover the mouse over an @mention it brings up the user's profile card, hovering over the reply arrow icon could bring up the content of the post. This would be the way forward i think. Just had a quick drop in on the MAD thread and it is now full of responses that make little or no sense without seeing the original comment. If the OP is on a previous page or someone is posting multiple times you have to navigate to and fro just to see those comments making the thread far from user friendly. Also looks like posters are now confusing responses from different posts, especially if the exchange involves a third person and this is when that thread is quite, suspect it will fall apart if the models start spitting out cold solutions come next week?
  3. That's not a brick wall - it's the Dorset snow shield turned up to 11 and keeping it away from the whole of the SW!
  4. Normally that was because it had the habit at 6-7 days out of dumping all the energy into a dartboard low without resolving that low into multiple centres and shortwaves. This instance however... it already has a complex system for the longwave trough and has now put a frontal wave under the left exit of a jet streak in the mid atlantic on saturday evening - so very definitely one to keep an eye on! Those GFS gust charts are hopefully over egging the pudding for Wales and Western England but probably an idea to make sure the trampoline in the back garden is bolted down anyway!
  5. That 2018 was the result of an Easterly setup which with high pressure normally near scandi is an important consideration, Easterlys tend to put up a lot of resistance to warm incursions and therefore a correction south of any 'runner' low from the Atlantic is not unusual. This event however is a straight northerly, so I have much less confidence that things will move south in a way that gives a snow fest SW of Swindon. It'll be the usual - either north of the M4 and cold rain for us, or snowmagedon in France and we may see the odd snow grain. As you say, our locations offer lots of other benefits so should not worry too much if we miss out.
  6. No expert but I believe it is because that the upper (+500m) air temps since Tuesday are no longer that cold (only just below freezing) so the surface temps are kept from plummeting.
  7. 2018, the correction south started to appear about 3 days before the snow hit and was only accurately modeled about 24 hrs before hand. I remember the toys leaving the pram big time in the MAD thread as many north of Gloucester had taken it for granted a week before hand that they were going to be snowed in. While a correction South is certainly plausible, a much more progressive incursion of the warm air can not be discounted. I always take the view that us living on the south coast west of Sussex should just assume rain and take any snow as an unexpected bonus.
  8. I had the impression that a few flakes counts as heavy snow for Bournemouth and Poole!? There are not many places in mainland UK that do even worse for falling snow than here in Exeter but of what ones there are, i'd have Bournemouth top of the table.
  9. Yes - at least in the past that has been the case. These models have however been regularly upgraded over the years and so the "reliable" time frame has extended out from 4/5 days towards 9/10 days. If you compared runs, things that once need to be considered for Easterlies was is if trends began to show for adjustments of the pattern east. What would be looking great 6 days out could end up being a damp squib with a cold pool being deflected and giving a snow fest in Athens! That however tended to be with an Azores highs modelled as transferring direct towards scandinavia, this evolution however is more an amplification northwards. Those on here with a lot more knowledge than myself (most people to be honest) may be able to explain if this evolution is more certain.
  10. Exeter Airport clocked 81mph between noon and 1 pm - hopefully that will be the 2024 record! Exeter (Devon) last 24 hours weather WWW.METOFFICE.GOV.UK Exeter last 24 hours weather including temperature, wind, visibility, humidity and atmospheric pressure
  11. Walked into work through the East of Exeter at noon and was surprised at how bad the wind was for about 20 mins, probably as the wrap around occluded front was passing over. Gave large trees a very wide berth and on one street i was having to dodge wheelie bins flying about! Just checked the met office observations and Exeter airport recorded a max gust of 81mph between 12:00-13:00. Exeter (Devon) last 24 hours weather WWW.METOFFICE.GOV.UK Exeter last 24 hours weather including temperature, wind, visibility, humidity and atmospheric pressure
  12. Pedantic on my part but it is an outlier for 850s at the end of the run and is well distant from the mean - the timeframe clipped from your image. I think the general point you are making is with merit, it would help your arguments however if your opening statement was actually accurate? 850s for Warwickshire - chosen as it's central England but the 850 for the op is an outlier at some stage for the end of the run for London to Aberdeen to Devon.
  13. The issue I have with this is that it is an arbitrary metric and as such there are multiple ways for any monthly CET to become skewed towards milder or cooler than average, making any such extrapolation pointless? If you were arguing that a specific set of pressure anomalies, or a prevailing wind direction, or number of rainfall events in a month, etc, etc will indicate a seasonal outcome I'd be a little more open minded.
  14. Was wondering what phase the tidal cycle would be at. A few years back I recall a similar looking low pressure system being modelled and questioned if it would be a coastal flooding hazard but another contributor explained that the tides are an all important consideration and in that instance there was no great concern because they were in the neap phase - they knew what they were talking about as if I recall correctly they worked in a harbour masters office at one of the Essex ports.
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