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As expected rain temps nearly 6c now 4.4c. MO 5 day for here gives 5/6c and lows of 0 /-1c. Pretty poor show, winds never more northerly than NW. OH wow rain clearing with some bits of wet snow mixed in at the end. :cc_confused:

Phrases like "a freak displaced polar vortex" " thousands of people could die" "temperatures in the south nosedive to -1c" Seriously are there any journalists here that can defend this type of rubbish.

Wouldn't it be good to have a much more detailed service in this country. Professionals taking time to discuss what the various models show, with longer details. They get so little time to chat outside the couple of mins they are allowed.

What cold snap, the proper cold spell doesn't start till sunday here. Top temps of 5/6c is average, I cant see any snow here till sunday, maybe some wet snow, as far as I can see its only a NW wind down here. A bit IMBY however up north it should be good, but looking at any models down here, average temps tilll then.

Apart from that being 8 days away and it will change. Has that chart happened before very often.

The chart is dated 27th Jan, whats that got to do with the second week of Feb. Sorry confused, as tomorrow it might be showing a northerly deep freeze.

The big spring tides are now till sunday then they start to drop off, by the end of next week they are neap tides.

If Ian and his colleagues in UK had to deal with and forecast freezing rain, then his comment about the populous, who have properly rarely seen a decent freezing rain fall. I think then you would see the MO having nervous breakdowns if the models show that, far more than bog standard snow. Anyone who has seen and experienced that will understand.

Think he means when it leaves the UK, into FRance, Belgium etc as temps lower there.

Evening, just wondering what your forecast portal has to aid us here maybe. Are they showing any Atlantic systems making in roads to your area.

Which is a prime example of why you shouldn't quote comments like all mild just because today's models show it today. Does no one learn from previous model uncertainty, does no one read posts like Tamara's. It's very certain that the next few days will show various outcomes.

I must admit that sometimes I do wonder. For the last two days we have been looking at possible cold weather extending and becoming more established via most models. Today the models change, whilst believing and understanding Ian F,s expert input in here, even the MO cannot always be right. I have understood and learnt many different aspects and inputs from the more professional people on here, in which my understanding has greatly increased since being here. The bottom line is I have learnt that each model has the last few hours readings put in, this can in times of extra chaos in the atmosphere, can well change today's output and more especially the next few days. I expect that by the end of this week the outputs may well be totally different, because the starting data is likely to run a different course, mainly due to conditions changing across different parts of the world.

Lets face it, all we ask for is a week of mega cold, lots and lots of powdery deep snow even just once a year and I dont mean jet off to the Alps. Everything halts, people go out as familes to enjoy the snow, adults become kids for a week, work ceases for a few days. Is that really to much to ask for. :D Even in this country down south.

Thats good news for the Alps and hopefully us to. Always believed that once you get a good snow base and cold temps across Europe, you have a much higher chance of cold here. Esp the near continent, even in France, you get a southerly that then gets turned more south east. THe Alps really do need a good weeks dumping.

Surely the top chart is mis leading. If we want cold n/e or easterlies, then the above charts wont be that cold. You would need to look at the temp anolomy from say the 18th onwards.

Blink and you will miss it. Guaranteed thats only over the downs, and as Ian says GFS snow forecast is worthless and even more so next week as it wont exsist...

Ahh yes I remember it well. How are you enjoying Les Gets, been there several times.

I may have this wrong, but you might as well stop ;looking at the old GFS. As per my previous post I think it gets switched off next week. Can one of the mods confirm that.

This sounds dodgy that's 2 people on here that had kidney stones over the xmas period.

So its time this week, one less modal to take apart as being bias. Sorry next week, I think. Bye bye GFS.

Apologies, I thought they were the temps for 06am, not the max temps for the day. Based on my thoughts, -4 to -8 for 6am, I really hope I am not disappointed.

Am I missing something here, 1-3c at 6 am in the morning in the middle of Jan, is hardly dream material is it. I know that they would be lower on the ground, yes its a trend maybe. I hope that you will be posting similar charts with temps around -4 to -8 over majority of the country soon.

Just looked the cam for Les Gets, its looks beautiful there. Plenty of what looks like good snow lovely pistes and totally blue skys. Can we not have back our cold sunny days here.

It seems to me that there seems to be a lot more high pressure over us this weekend that hoped for over the last few days.???