Super heated urine time!

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/17/daily-express-worst-winter-in-100-years_n_4291699.html?1384700431&just_reloaded=1

Honestly, is this sort of shite any better than the stuff the Express and Star put out? Yes, it's a PA story - and it's written for a supposedly more 'sophisticated' audience of tree hugging, muesli chomping beardies who attend dinner parties occasionally (when they can be bothered to dispense with their woolly jumpers) - but the underlying theme is the same.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/17/scotland-snow-uk-weather

Tornadoes have swept through the US Midwest in the states of Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky.

Even by the Express's standards this is extreme forget Dec 2010 this winter will be like Feb 47 but last 3 months!

With a 100 days of heavy snow!  

http://t.co/fiY5wz4aqJ

Sadly the Met Office not going for a prolonged cold spell and seem to suggest a return to S W winds by early Dec.

Which is a bit odd as I dont see a return to zonal in the models.

UK Outlook for Friday 22 Nov 2013 to Sunday 1 Dec 2013:

Many western and northern areas will be mainly dry and fine at first with a few wintry showers. Southern and eastern parts of the UK will be cloudier with a greater risk of showers, perhaps heavy near North Sea coasts. Showers are likely to fall as snow over high ground, and it will be cold generally with overnight frosts. Thereafter, it will probably stay mainly dry and settled in northwestern areas but rather cold with a raw easterly wind. Southern and eastern parts are likely to stay unsettled with further wintry showers but these will tend to increasingly fall as rain. Towards the end of the month there are signs that temperatures may return nearer to normal with more unsettled weather affecting northern and western Britain.

Sounds like High pressure gradually slipping into Europe

I think we can almost rule out any chance of an omega block and must hope the scandi high can hold for long enough to pull the cold uppers here

BBC update:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2635167#outlook

Met update:

UK Outlook for Saturday 23 Nov 2013 to Monday 2 Dec 2013:

Many western and northern areas will be mainly dry and fine next weekend, but with overnight fog patches slow to clear. Southern and eastern parts of the UK will be cloudier with wintry showers, perhaps heavy near North Sea coasts. It will be cold generally with overnight frosts and a risk of ice, strong winds accentuating the cold in the southeast. Thereafter, it will probably stay mainly dry and settled in northwestern areas but rather cold, especially at first. Southeastern parts are likely to see wintry showers initially, but these will tend to fade with time. Towards December, there is probably little change, but temperatures may return nearer to normal with the north and west becoming more unsettled.

A good update and definitely a move towards the ECM.

Yes it is a nod towards ECM and if the threat of snow in the East for next week does not excite people in November, then some of us are going to be dissapointed come March methinks LOL.
Perhaps we really have been spoilt these last few years, because charts and forecasts like that would of had the place in overload mode pre-2009.

A good one indeed

I read the Guardian...doesn't make me any of the above!! 

Not the best judged post that...is it!

The speed at which autumn is going through I hope winter goes the same way or faster... Roll on spring

Owing to the media, I am seeing many old grannies etc talking of heavy snow and severe cold which will last for weeks.... shivering and chattering before their teeth drop into their coffees. This is in Portsmouth too.... a city in the top 3 of having the least amount of snow in the UK.

Joe public are very confused with the media hype.

They are Mike, as are many of my mates, family and colleagues. People really are confused. 

Stand-by this week for the most ridiculously over-hyped cold snap on record.

— Paul Hudson (@Hudsonweather) November 18, 2013

Seriously? I thought it a sensible, level-headed piece a million miles from the garbage churned out by the Express. Perchance you're letting your own prejudice cloud your judgment

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/environment/britain-to-be-hit-by-entirely-typical-weather-201110174431


"Britain to be hit by typical weather" 

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/443462/Winter-2013-expected-to-be-worst-since-1947-with-heavy-and-persistent-snow-forecast-for-UK

I can do better. My forecast for winter 2015/2016 , is the coldest winter since the last ice age. Three large Arctic hurricanes will make their way south and drop 50 feet of snow over most of the UK, evacuation to mexico will be the only feasible option. Tempertures during the storm will fall at a rate of 10C per minute and could reach as low as -90C. The cold weather is expected to be triggered when the remaing part of the lassen ice shelf breaks off antartica, and finally stops the gulf stream. My advice to everyone would be to bunker down in the nearest library and try to avoid any tsumanis that just happen to be there. Oh and watch out for wolves... 

This!!