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8 minutes ago, Kasim Awan said:
Depends on wind speed and direction, this will occur with strong onshore winds which will probably prevent snow from reaching ground level anyway. Generally if snow begins to accumulate in a showery flow then it is cold enough to stick around unless something changes such as daytime or wind increasing etc.
ECM looks good on Lambert Conformal Conic.
Yeah looks nice. Hopefully favoured exposed parts could get a decent snow cover down to even 2/300ft but obviously may be a bit wet in nature..
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9 minutes ago, Kasim Awan said:
Uppers of -12 not required maybe -7 the main requirement is low heights and light winds.
I would have thought stronger winds/ pull from the artic would have been more favourable as its the convection from cumulonimbus clouds that create these polar lows.. The greater the wind speed the greater the friction and uplift from cold air traveling over mild sea... Hence more cumulous clouds. But I could be complelty wrong mate lol
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31 minutes ago, Kasim Awan said:
Uppers don't matter much in a setup driven by evaporative cooling events and low heights.
Problem is with winds coming in off a mildish Irish sea snow will melt low ground in between showers. I think above 5/600ft could do quite well though
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1 hour ago, Kentish Snowman in Yorks said:
I thought low heights / thicknesses were conducive to polar low formation? Looks like a turbulent 'high impact' spell of weather coming up over Christmas though regardless!
Not sure of what 850s or 500s are required I just know it has to be a really potent northerly to throw up a polar low.. A 1or 2 day toppler won't cut it. Sure I heard someone on here knowledgeable years ago say you need uppers of like -12/13 but not certain.
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8 minutes ago, carinthian said:
Polar Low territory !
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This northerly doesn't look cold enough for polar lows, needs to be atleast -45c or colder in the middle troposphere..
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21 hours ago, joggs said:
Just want it to blooming dry out fgs. If we don't get cold we get bloody rain
This weekend will be nice 11/12c dry with overnight low about 8c, will feel lovely
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4 minutes ago, MattStoke said:
I thought the US was Canada Two.
You think the United States of America is part of Canada?
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13 minutes ago, johncam said:
Wow that's some difference
Looking at GFS 240h over in north America, don't think I've ever seen the whole area this mild, including a good chunk of Canada two!
Hopefully help us coldies in some way down the line..
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11 minutes ago, swfc said:
Tbh its not a major event is it mate. Depends on how low you set the bar. Im not into cold frosty weather im a snow man. Some like a dickension xmas but its just wasted gas on heating to me. That said each to there own. Imo it will be January if there any substantial changes on the nhp ie blocking to the nne
I do a lot of running and outdoor sports so dry weather is very welcome for me, really like those cold frosty mornings even without snow,must be getting old lol.
Some of the battleground snow events I've had over last few years in Otley (6-10" snowfalls, 3 in one year couple years ago lol) have made me less looking for stonking E's or NE's with -15 uppers that never materialize, to realising you only need -5 uppers and an attacking system for copious amounts of snow!
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5 minutes ago, swfc said:
Possibly but after the last 2 days of sadness and despondency it give it while maybe midweek. Sometimes least said soonest mendedI to be honest a sharp quick northerly isnt that rare in December
Rarely seen a flake of snow from a straight northerly here, not complaining though at crystal blue skies and clean air should it come off!
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10 minutes ago, Nick F said:
Oh no, here we go again, just when we thought it was all over! The 4x daily GFS rollercoaster
Doesn't do too much for me inland but always nice to see a good cold plunge with -10 uppers.
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4 minutes ago, swfc said:
Tbh id give it a week or so. Glosea updates obv fluctuate and hyperventilating isnt going to change that. Dry for a starter going forward
The wedge of high pressure to the south west on latest glosea chart nudging up almost blocking atlantic, wouldnt take much of a nudge further north west on next chart release to be good.
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3 minutes ago, northwestsnow said:
Acc to Glosea El nino / eQbo combo is also useless for us ?
Hope it's wrong then !!
If only it was that simple, a dire Glosea chart means we right off the whole of January!
Thankfully only one small piece of the jigsaw,plenty of water to go under the bridge before then. I'm still expecting a decent cold spell around the turn of the year.
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1 minute ago, Jeremy Shockey said:
GFS 0z 850's
A huge amount of scatter after 19th Dec with all options still on the table for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day ( including a potent Northerly and warm Southwesterlies ) It would only need the high to form a touch further North and West for a cold festive blast.
Its only 10th Dec. Anything can happen.
Exactly, if we was a week away from christmas I would be worried, not 15 days out lmao
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4 minutes ago, BartyHater said:
‘Wet and mild for the next 10-12 days’
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Typo (some of sentence deleted) thanks for pointing that out
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Every single winter here in the model output thread there's one thing that never changes... As soon as the models show some poor output the swords are sharpened and real cold and proper winter is wrote off for as far as the models can show! Isn't that the true sign of insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome, even when every time (every winter) the end result has come back to bite so so so many people right back in the backside .
You will see a lot of experienced members/ wise heads on here with other 15 years model watching under their belt simply not commenting. This is because we are in no man's land at the moment, what I mean is the next 10-12 days are going to start wet and mildish before dryer weather becomes established with the odd cooler interlude. After that xmas into the new year is still up for grabs (deep cold and snow), we still don't know even after this mornings output!
I will keep it short and sweet, lets look at the gfs 14 days out a few different perputations:
As you see some poor, some great,some packed with potential, basically anything could happen around christmas! Some big days coming up model watching plenty to play for as from just looking at this set of charts, it's still right up in the air.
I'm liking some of the latest output that it is throwing up large areas of high pressure all over the place (yes in a bad position on some latest output) but the fact it isn't just a big barty high going nowhere, we only need one of the pressure rises, wedges in the right place and boom greenland high/scandinavian high!
Also I saw a few disagreements over some output earlier, involving BFTP, have to say when I'm scrolling through the pages that I've missed he's one of the main names that sticks out and I always find his input quite informative! Just my tuppence in.
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Model Output Discussion - Into Winter
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Not a chart for pristine snow down to low levels, but a nice chart if you love those big showers that can quickly drop 2" snow in blink of an eye with some behemoth snowflakes! . Just have to put up with the drip drip inbetween showers or during day light..