Nor here.

(we've had two pathetic patchy dustings of a snow pellet/flake mix this winter)

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I watch from afar several times a day during winter with hope of snow (live in snowless North East Kent), and every year see all the bitching, hormonal posts from all the men 

Gee, it's infuriating at times 

Louise

Me too. I read several times a day when exciting weather is on the horizon. Pity it always seems to stay there though. Don’t post as I don’t know enough, and don’t fancy being shouted down. 🙂

Get posting. 😎

That is some temp gradient out in the Atlantic at day 10 on the this morning's ECM run 

Storm of the century brewing? or yet another storm in a teacup that we have come to know and love over the last decade? 

Genuinely interesting to see what cold wedge of -10C 850s moving in from the Atlantic.

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How bizarre. You'd never guess from looking at this that the -10C 850hpa isotherm is over the UK.

I'm not buying into this absurd pattern imo. I think this is either going to trend towards more of a northwesterly or we will actually end up with that pattern but without the ridiculous wedge of arctic air.

Looking at the T500s on the NHem makes this a bit easier to understand.

You could almost argue it is the polar vortex. The reason the -10C isotherm is surviving is due to the insane depth of the cold which extends all the way into the stratosphere.

Its annoying to think that of the say circumference of the earth, there is an area of say 300 mile wide ribbon of air supplying the poles with HP inflating uppers, that the UK is smack bang in the middle of it surrounded by very cold air.

It wont be there on the 18z... but just thought i would point out the irony?

And jesus christ if it does this for a 2nd time.

I quite like this picture of the Jetstream hitting the block and just disintegrating into bits.

Kinda like a jet engine onto a concrete platform

Those 500hpa temperatures are insane.

Lovely to look at these nationwide snow charts

A rather wintry GFS 12z run for northern areas. Were things to verify as shown, I reckon that Scotland and parts of northern England would be lookin at a repeat of the wintry snap a couple of weeks ago.

I think the interest, once again, is confined to the N with cold W/NW/N winds at times bringing wintry showers and at times, snow to these parts. This has been the pattern by in large for much of the winter.

I never bought into the E'ly which was showing a few days ago and I think it is fair to say that the E'ly risk is diminishing each day - which was always the most likely situation IMHO.

Cosmic

I hear you are suffering from "premature 'announciation'" again Steve.

Steve is the ultimate, "Reverse Psychologist", WI..

Sun/Mon onwards next week open to further upgrades...