WX charts much as yesterday
settling down with fairly warm weather for continental Europe after a week 1 cold patch around Poland. By week 2 there is a dividing line running along the coast from Brittany to the Baltic, warmer to the south, cooler to the north with N Norway and Iceland still very much cold though perhaps some of that Scandinavian coldness leaking out to Poland.
Very dry in week 1 for Britain and other countries bordering the N Sea, some rain in most other places; in week 2 the rain peps up in N Spain, France and the Alps, and today there is also some in week 2 for C England, and separately quite widely for W Russia.
GFS Op - HP for Britain peaking over NW Scotland Tue 30th, slowly moving NW-wards and allowing a N/NE-ly drift affecting E/SE areas by Mon 5th. This trend continues for the following week, though with a weakening pressure gradient and the HP getting to mid-Atlantic. Then LP over France getting closer by Mon 12th.
ECM - similar to GFS but from Sun 4th brings the HP back from the N Atlantic so less of a N/NE-ly drift, and probably drier too.
GEFS - warmest around Fri 2nd though not remarkably so, then steadily declining to seasonal norm by about Wed 5th, and staying there (or a bit cooler in the E), with quite good agreement from ens members. Significant chances of rain from some ens members after Fri 7th in the W or Sat 12th in the E, dry until then.
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