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  1. 3 minutes ago, BLAST FROM THE PAST said:

    I reckon a 10-15 day very cold event is in the offing

     

    BFTP

    And a Summer of '76 'ol lad, down our neck of the woods...
    Also good to see loads of toys being piled nicely back into prams.......
    Patience required, week 2 or 3 of March, make that our starting point and anything before that becomes a Brucie..... 😛

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  2. 15 minutes ago, CreweCold said:

    Yes they are short-medium range but short range in comparison to the context of SSW events. This is to say, the warming has initiated in the past 24 hours but the trop response will be outside the scope of the shorter range modelling (for now). Ergo we have to look at the longer range products…the monthlies etc.

    Generally when I refer to longer range it’s beyond 2 weeks.

    Well said Crewe, absolutely nailed it there. Total respect for all your reviews and take on forecasting over the years. Patience required as we head into March, maybe even waiting till week 2 for anything wintry from this SSW

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  3. 26 minutes ago, Matty J said:

    The ICON has shifted the low further south again, which tbh is now becoming a major worry. Aware that model isn’t one of the main players but it can’t be ignored.

    We see on the cusp now, surely we’re not going to be left disappointed again

    Over to the GFS pub run and lets hope that doesn’t shift it south!

    Surely that opens the flood gates to convective showers merging together and producing all day in SE plus would bring the colder air in earlier with snow starting Saturday night possibly

     

  4. 1 hour ago, Blizzard said:

    Must be stuck for some reason....

    You can see the 6z and 18z ECMWF here... FWIW looks very similar to the 0z at 72 hrs....

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    Lovely. Thanks

  5. 3 hours ago, DCee said:

    But the ECM has moved towards the GFS and the GFS has stuck with the initial cold for midlands north. So I'm right in my initial analysis thankyou.

    Agree with @Djdazzle, once again talking rubbish.

    A proper forecaster suggests that the ECM, UKMO & GEM have been the most consistent models since the weekend for this E'ly solution, UKMO in particular - 00Z UKMO would keep the cold in place well into next week & pick of the bunch for that is the 00Z EC with potential frontal snow too.
    Goofus can be taken with a pinch of salt. It's on board for now, but not going to take much notice of it going forward if it goes against the consensus again

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  6. 1 hour ago, Frosty Winter said:

    Interesting, I’ve also been monitoring the extended GFS control runs recently and there has been a relatively consistent signal for northern blocking to re-establish itself by mid-February. This run is from yesterday and I’m still waiting to see today’s. Of course it may still come to nothing but it’s something to watch nonetheless.

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    i haven't posted for a few years after annual snow disappointments but would just like to say whilst recuperating that the 2nd image shows a nice pair of Y fronts in the centre :-)

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  7. Some great pics dude and my vote from Sweden has to be the ones i got some great pics from

    1. Broken Bow, awesome light show and perfect dusk setting

    2. Seymour, my first ever day with a DSLR so was well chuffed to get same pic as Dan out of the 300 i rolled off.

    3. Pilger, wasn't there forthat one but looks an awesome muvva telephone boxer

     

    Have a good tour all

     

     

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  8. Fair comment CR, but the possible Atlantic Low Pressure system possibly heading our way this weekend is not even a remnant of 'Bertha'. If it happens at all it will be an entirely different weather system spawned out in the Atlantic due to other factors. The medias obsession with Bertha is a red herring.

    Ya wrong, so wrong, it will be remnants of Bertha, even the Meto quote it as such, unless you think their chief forecaster doesn't know what he's talking about. 

    The remains of hurricane Bertha, over the western side of the Atlantic on Thursday morning, will come steadily towards the UK. The transition from a tropical to an extra-tropical featureis a particularly hard one to forecast with confidence, and computer models continue to differ in thelocation and intensity of the resulting depression, which is expected to pass over, or close to, the UKfrom early on Sunday. There is the potential for widespread rainfall totals of more than 50 mm and coastal gusts of over60 mph, along with large waves. However, the system may pass harmlessly to the south of the country.or spread heavy rain even further north, and the public are advised to keep up to date with warnings. 
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  9. Hi Paul, yep remember them now, in my vodka fuelled rants, must have lost the one with dates on.Wish the non refundable deposit was made clearer, maybe it was just me not reading all the small print, but that's how i roll.Shame, as has left me feeling bitter with myself & NW

  10. To be honest Jim the deposits were clearly marked as non refundable on the website, and the subsequent emails - as far as I've ever seen all holiday deposits are non-refundable and from year 1 the deposits for the storm chases have been non-refundable. When someone books the deposit holds the place and is a commitment to honour that booking, if they weren't non-refundable we may as well not take a deposit at all.

    This is the wording from the email confirming the tour dates back in May and the wording of the refundable nature of the early bird deposit matches that on the website - ie everyone who booked prior to knowing the dates could cancel at that point should none of the dates work for them, and we would refund the deposit then.

     

     

    Regarding t-shirts, they've been done once I think, but have never been a core part of the package, and the community side of the chases have evolved in the last few years of their own accord really, so we didn't pursue the bio's etc in 2012 as we had in previous years. Posted Image

    Thanks for the reply Paul, but this is the email above that nobody received. I knew i was on tour 2 but had assumed the dates based on previous years.

    However last month, i needed to confirm dates, but no info on either website, so i asked Ian on FB and he gave me the dates, which wasn't what i was expecting and clashed with my wife's trip to Finland, so i had to cancel.

    If i'd have known the dates back in June then i would have had to cancel and the wording in the email no-one received

    As part of the early-bird booking you can cancel now if none of these dates suit you. If you'd like to do this please let me by replying to this email or call on 0208 090 2490 within the next 7 days and we'll refund your deposit for you.

    should have applied. I hear Cookie and Kirsty have tried numerous times to get info and payment plans set up, but got no answers to emails, others are pulling out as communications have either been poor or non existent. People can't book flights as they haven't heard what tour they are on or what the dates are.

    We, as regular storm chasers, would have appreciated refunds of our deposits as a goodwill gesture based on the lack of earlier communications, non existent payment plans and lack of detail on either website.

    At the moment there are a lot of very pithed off and annoyed regular storm chasers out there as we are a close knit group who communicate regularly with each other.

    Regards

    Jimbo

  11. Didn't realise others had issues with poor comms.Mine's a different problem, non refundable deposit that i didn't know about, i've had to cancel but not getting deposit back.Eventually found the statement in an attachment within an attachment on the original email for early birds.2011 comms were great for my first year, T shirts, banter, a who's who of all the chasers.Last year had none of that apart from what the chasers created themselves and this year even worse, with no reference to tour dates, had to ask Ian on Facebook,  and all last years info on both websites.Not exactly a great advert for newbies.

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