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  1. 6 hours ago, Sky Full said:

    The GFS currently shows this ‘lying snow depth’ chart for the 12 December - just seven days away:

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    Hardly anywhere in Wales without snow in this chart.   What’s even more surprising is that some snow is predicted to be lying on the ground at least until the 20th December which is the furthest reach of this model.  This indicates below freezing temperatures even during the day.  Who knows, this might even be a conservative outlook….🌨🌨❄️❄️⛄⛄

    Looks suggestive of a Dangler set up to me as there’s also snow cover showing on the north Devon coast too 

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  2. 1 minute ago, Met4Cast said:

    I can’t say i’ve ever seen a low pressure disrupting underneath another low pressure system before.. is this new upgrade of the GFS okay? It seems incredibly broken. 

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    It’s disrupting against that thin sliver of heights which dissects Iceland and Svalbard. Very wedgey I like it. Not looking further than this though tbh it’s going to be cold and the potential is there for some frontal Snow ❄️ 

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  3. 25 minutes ago, Jackfrost said:

    This is true. I suppose it's inevitable as the bulk of the UK's population lives in the southeast, Midlands, northwest and Yorkshire, but it does trigger some eye-rolling when seemingly all of the talk is about scenarios that aren't very relevant to us "forgotten" peoples.

    And yes, while I take interest in easterlies, give me an unstable, long-draw northerly any day. They often deliver for the whole of Wales, not just the north and west coasts. Did the Swansea area experience the streamer of Dec. 18th 2010 at all? That was from a northerly with a northwesterly component and there was ~40 cm of snow in the Valleys from that.

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    Remember it very well, the Irish Sea snow maker was in full effect then and with the cold northerly coming in Wednesday I’d expect some places will get pasted again fingers crossed, hopefully get the fabled Pembrokeshire dangler setting up with heavy snow showers piling in. 

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  4. I’m thinking the Cyclone in the pacific over the weekend has had a significant impact on the downstream pattern causing the Greenland height to retrogress to quickly and the response now as it begins to decline is for more heights to remain over Iceland and east Greenland putting more pressure on the incoming lows for the festive period so more trough disruption is showing that’s my take on it, could be that the lows disrupt even more over the coming few days and the Channel Islands could once again be the sweet spot

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  5. It’s crazy to think that all that precipitation that was heading our way yesterday seemed to just evaporate as it came over land so we had a few scraps of snow but today the precipitation comes in unabated and intensifies over the land of only that had occurred yesterday. Never mind maybe one last wintery hoora to end the month and start of March (maybe) but also wouldn’t rule out an early spring warm up too. I know what I’d prefer  

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  6. 5 minutes ago, danthetan said:

    Pretty much the same battle as now the cold air was lurking to the NE and mild air to the south.  That low that went through was the trigger to pull down the cold air and allow a wedge of high pressure to form which with cold air stalled the low coming in off the Atlantic and dropped the hammer.

    Yes I remember my folks speaking of the event it was forecast to be rain in the south but it was so wrong snowed for around 18 hours constant yet across the Bristol Channel they had rain. The archive chart above shows the 0oC 850 isotherm was just touching Wales’s south coast. Uppers aren’t everything in event like this if the winds ahead of the advancing front are from an east or south easterly direction off the continent more often than not there will be snow and allot of it. This one coming next week has all the hall marks of the 1982 event just look at the GEM shows hours of snow almost all over wales. 

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  7. What I’ve been encouraged by is that on all the model runs between yesterday and so far today the cold has been shown to carry on past what was supposed to be next Wednesday but has now been moved back to Friday and I bet as we gain closer it will move into Saturday and so on so the it seems the track of the Atlantic lows is showing to take a east south east track int France as apposed to just bulldozing through the uk and as such more and more snow opportunities for us in Wales as we remain to the north of these lows. Could be some places with over a metre of snow come next Friday beacons will be the sweet spot with widely 10-20cm of snow right down to sea level. Don’t tell the family yet though ❄️❄️❄️

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  8. 9 minutes ago, andymusic said:

    12z Icon's looking good for Wales with an Atlantic front hitting the cold air and dumping it's snowy goodness, so a good start to todays 12zs

    Yes the front looks like sliding to the south and wales remains on the colder side with battleground snow which in the past have produced a good few cm of snow could be a January 81 redux with wales getting 18 hours of continuous snow and the folks in Devon and Cornwall get rain such would be the boundary high risk high reward ❄️❄️❄️

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