Producing your own synoptics/weather.

[swfc]

Was just thinking how cool it would be if you could create your own synoptics,weather and conditions on your pc.Wonder if its possible to create the ultimate winter set up ete and the actuall weather conditions at sea level???

[I remember Atlantic 252]

mine would be 31 Dec 1978

[Methuselah]

mine would be 31 Dec 1978

Aye; synoptics don't come much better than that. A night to remember!

[I remember Atlantic 252]

Aye; synoptics don't much better than that. A night to remember!

 

Ay, just looking at archives, I wasn't around then

[Costa Del Fal]

Was just thinking how cool it would be if you could create your own synoptics,weather and conditions on your pc.Wonder if its possible to create the ultimate winter set up ete and the actuall weather conditions at sea level???

Try geoengineering if you want to manipulate the weather. lol.

[I remember Atlantic 252]

Forget the ultimate winter set-up, I want the ultimate summer set-up!

 

yeah fair enough, nothing against summer fan's, good video on '76 by the way, draw your dream chart then, my dream summer chart, high pressure, blue skies, light winds, temps of 24C, evening thunderstorms moving in

[snowking]

yeah fair enough, nothing against summer fan's, good video on '76 by the way, draw your dream chart then, my dream summer chart, high pressure, blue skies, light winds, temps of 24C, evening thunderstorms moving in

Amen.

[Thundery wintry showers]

It would be pretty time-consuming unfortunately, you'd either have to hand-draw the charts, or create some sort of primitive atmospheric circulation model.  I tried the former initially, then graduated to the latter, but I sort of cheated, because I created a ficticious parallel universe where the Arctic consists of a land mass and thus ends up almost as cold as Antarctica, and where the synoptic progressions are like those in the Southern Hemisphere (an irregular series of anticyclones moving slowly from west to east, but with high, rather than low, pressure near the pole, enabling more potent northerlies to occur). 

 

Here's a fantasy chart for Christmas Day:

That colder Arctic is handy for when we get polar maritime westerlies.

 

And here's an early-January easterly that may remind some of 11-13 January 1987.  In this fantasy climate, the general synoptic route to this setup is a northerly followed by high pressure moving across to the north, continuing to pull the cold air down and across from the east.

 

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Forget the ultimate winter set-up, I want the ultimate summer set-up!

 

 

Here's a good one: