Clearly a chance for snow across the island next week. As usual, northern and eastern areas would do best however the south and west could see significant snow as the Atlantic moves against the cold block.
Hopefully tonights GFS joins the Party.
A good sign surely that the GFS has moved somewhat and prolongs the cold.
On the poorer side the Iceland based high appears fragile with more of a mid Atlantic based high which would allow energy over the Top and sink or topple the ridge.
A step backwards i feel so far and await the ECM with fingers crossed.
Ian enjoys the snow as much as the rest of us i believe. He is however an advocate of what can go wrong will go wrong which is why he is right more often than wrong
I do feel for Ian Brown, he gets lambasted for saying the ECM op is more likely to be correct, yet when Ian Ferguson says the METO are saying the same he is lauded and everyone agrees with him.
Regardless of what any output is showing until i see it on an ECM operational run im not believing.
The last two operational runs from the best model is not supportive of big Greenland heights.
Lets not get ahead of ourselves......yet.
Why are Ian Brown and others being critised for saying the cold snap this weekend will be brief and not sustained?. Seems to me that this agrees with the METO and last two ECM ops.
No prolonged snow and cold likely until towards the end of the month more likely given expected propogation timescales from the SSW
That ECM is a big blow. Its the best model and two op runs in a row have flattened the pattern. Add on what MOGREPS is showing and i think we could be on a failed snowy spell again.
That doesnt of course mean that we dont see better impact from the SSW in February .