UKMO - close, very close to being good!
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/en/topkarten.php?map=1&model=ukm&var=1&run=12&time=144&lid=OP&h=0&mv=0&tr=24#mapref
Yep NWS - quite a mixture by day 8 including quite a few ECMesque solutions. No need to feel bad this morning - we are still very much in the game.
Crucial ECM run coming up though...
Everyone knew this was going to be a roller-coaster but for now, the 12z NWP output is a considerable downgrade.
UKMO, GEM, ICON all worse than their previous runs. GFS about the same to day 6.
UKMO not as good as this morning's run - not terrible though but not a trend we want to see.
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/en/topkarten.php?map=1&model=ukm&var=1&time=144&run=12&lid=OP&h=0&tr=24&mv=0
Even though at the surface, the GFS solution is different, at a broadscale level (500Mb) it is not significantly out of kilter. It is well within the envelope of possible solutions. Dismissing it out of hand is not advisable.
ECM - broadscale very similar to previous runs. No point fussing over the minor shifts in the orientation of the high or uppers at this stage. The block isn’t going anywhere.
In so many ways that’s a downgrade.
1) the shortwave near Iceland flattening the high more.
2) the low over Europe not clearing as much to the south east.