Well the blue sky did not last long; as the radar shows a fairly active line of showers now moving through with a dry slot following, hopefully with some sun, quite breezy also T=11.5 C, down on this time yesterday, as is the Td.
From the latest NOAA 500 mb outputs there is a ‘slight’ indication that ‘perhaps’ some extension of ridging seems to be shown on the 6-10 chart from the Iberia region. This in spite of the continuing strong 500 mb flow across the Atlantic into the UK.
Even the 8-14 is along similar but more muted lines.
As usual give it 2 or 3 more outputs to see if this current trend is kept and, hopefully, increased.
Climate Prediction Center - 6-10 Day 500mb Outlook
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Pretty similar in the Swiss resorts, if the Jungfrau region is typical. Plenty of snow about about 5500ft and surprisingly the runs into the village seemed to stay open. The area shut due to strong winds much of Easter, open now but clothed in cloud.
Slope data | jungfrau.ch
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A cloudy start but dry after 1.4 mm of rain since midnight; radar shows this edging away north with another band edging north for later this morning; a low of 7.2 C
The 6-10 day 500 mb anomaly chart from NOAA shows a fairly marked Confluent ridge leading into a Diffluent trough off the coast of n America. This can lead to the development of a surface low, possibly rapid deepening. So at some stage in this time scale we could expect a fairly deep surface low to form in that area. The flow is then shown as SW'ly fairly strong at 500 mb. So a rather unsettled outlook in the 6-10 day period seems quite likely
Dry so far with variable cloud giving sunshine at times; lowest temperature of 4.6 C; radar suggests showers upwind of here. Derbyshire web cams have no snow showing.