About time. There hasn't been much so far. I'm off to Austria in late March so would like a nice base please!

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Hang on, I thought there were only 2 Daily Star readers on this forum .

The Met outlook covers all bases, as Neil alluded to in the MO thread, wind rather than snow could be more disruptive.

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Well I've recently converted to The Express following their excellent performance in long-range forecasts

 

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Regarding the potential alpine snow fall late next week - imagine what this'll be like with waist high snowfall. 113cm and counting over two days

https://www.j2ski.com/snow_forecast/France/Chamonix_snow.html

 

Remarkable totals of 2.5 metres for the NW facing Alps

http://i62.tinypic.com/jutwr6.jpg

DAILY Weather for the week ahead now BBC N24

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'looks like thebattle between cold and mild will see cold win through' Seems better than mild hurricanes

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Are both the above comments about the same forecast? Confused.com

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Met Office update:

 

Outlook for the UK over the next 6-30 days

UK Outlook for Wednesday 28 Jan 2015 to Friday 6 Feb 2015:

Cloudy at first with a band of rain moving southeastwards through Wednesday morning before clearing away. This brings with it stronger winds, perhaps gales to the north, and also milder temperatures. Drier and colder conditions in the northwest should then follow across the rest of the UK, with wintry showers falling over the northwest. Thereafter we move into a potentially very disturbed spell of weather bringing periods of rain with gales or severe gales in many places, but mostly to north and western parts. Turning somewhat colder with an increasing risk of snow in the north of the UK. Temperatures will vary markedly from day to day, and will be cold at times with overnight frosts.

UK Outlook for Saturday 7 Feb 2015 to Saturday 21 Feb 2015:

It looks most likely that unsettled conditions will continue across most of the UK and that western parts will see slightly wetter than average conditions. The east is expected to see conditions closer to average for the time of year and be more likely to experience some dry and clearer spells. Temperatures are currently expected to be near normal in the most-part, but will perhaps be slightly colder in parts of the north and northwest. However, some colder spells are still possible at times accompanied by night-time frosts and also a wintry mix of rain, sleet and snow .

Updated at: 0249 on Sat 24 Jan 2015

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Just to clarify that the text above is yesterday's Met Office outlook not today's which will be available in 2 or 3 hours.

This has been discussed before. The Met Office outlook is not updated until lunchtime (despite what the time stamp states)

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MET Office 6-15 Dwyer now updated:
UK Outlook for Thursday 29 Jan 2015 to Saturday 7 Feb 2015:
Much of the UK is likely to be in a cold, showery airstream at first, with sleet and snow showers across northwestern parts of the UK. Gales are likely across northern Britain too. These colder conditions are expected to last through Friday and into the weekend, with further spells of snow and overnight frost and ice, especially across the north of the UK. These conditions may well last into the first week of February, but there are some signs of more changeable weather by the end of the forecast period. Although any stormy weather currently looks unlikely by this time, spells of wind of rain would mean that temperatures may return to nearer normal and the likelihood of snow, frost and ice would be a little lower.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/forecast 

Following the charts nicely
Martin

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Interesting update from Weather Online for the week ahead after yesterday's "Turning colder" now we have "Not as cold!"

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-app/reports?LANG=en&MENU=weekahead&DAY=20150124 

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T Sch;egaehg[oegner

Biting winds , Wintry from Wednesday / Thursday onwards

Snow into N England

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The forecast for the latter half of next week will change again no doubt. Emphasis on 'low confidence' at the moment.

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Their monthly issued on the 21st is already inaccurate - milder by next weekend LOL

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REMINDER:

BBC N daily weather for the week ahead soon at 21:55pm - will be interesting. Esp. for Wednesday.

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T Sch[ojrtg[oitgker  21:55

As we know really

Early February LP to the NE of us Northerlies ..............cold

No real specifics ( no surprise )

 

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Well, 10c for Wednesday for us in the south and 8C Thursday? so seasonal but otherwise very vague forecast.

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He did say it will take all day Wednesday for the cold front to sweep through. I would be surprised if Thursday temp is higher than the forecast for here tomorrow

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We've got rain showers forecast for Thursday, is this done by a computer, robot or a human, i thought snow was going to fall anywhere away from windward coasts.

'look out for some weather shenanigans later next week.... it could get interesting ' N24
That will do for me.

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Update from the weather Online by John Ejdowski

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-app/reports?LANG=en&MENU=weekahead&DAY=20150125 

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That changes with every GFS run Tally

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now why would you think snow was going to fall everywhere? The experts have certainly not said such a thing.

;)

Some of the charts posted on here yesterday(not by me) showed snow/snow showers across the majority of the country

To repeat a number of previous posts: The charts posted and often labelled JFF (Just for fun or Just for frustration) are generated ppn type based on raw modelled parameters. They have had let's say a 'chequered' history and their performance should be taken with a big pinch of salt.

I would look as them as a very rough guide and when the time comes (within 48 hours), use the E4 and WRF ppn models as they are high resolution and get a much better handle on events.

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