Lots of changes the past 48 hours or so.... who knows where we'll up in a week's time.
The tendency for high pressure to build to the north, and low pressure to the south remains through the 7-10 day period (which is as far as I think you can look even for general trends before chaos renders charts utterly meaningless) which is encouraging for those wanting something wintry.
However, synoptics have many, many ways of preventing a wintry spell, many of which are frequently mentioned on here involving highs of various types (Azores, UK, Euro, Bartlett etc.) but there's another spoiler at the moment..... it's the refusal of low pressure to bury down into the Eastern Med and the persistence of heights (as distinct from a particularly well defined high pressure system) over the Black Sea/Turkey/Syria area , over that area, causing a southerly drift with its origins in North Africa rendering any easterly over the UK mild, or at least, not freezing. Although I know this is taking a little bit of liberty with geography in that region I'm going to call this phenomena the "Curse of the Arabian Heights".
Andrew
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10 January 2014 13:54:01
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