(south based IMBY alert)
Must admit after the somewhat iffy GEM and GFS for MBY, was expecting ECM to go messier than that but it ends with a massive blocking high and cold over the whole country.
So from a down here perspective and looking at ops then ens:-
UKMO, can only see to T168 but to that point it's a fantastic run for countrywide cold.
ECM, flirts with 'meh' T144-168 but relents and drags down cold air at T216. (The train is barrelling towards us at T192).
GFS, high risk scenario but mostly cold with a brief mild incursion, amusingly flat and mild looking end in deep la la land.
GEM, allows some cold air in initially before a blob of HP slinks into France and helps nudge LP over the UK too far and we get a snow to rain event and colder air doesn't make it back over the far south, hard to say if it would post T240.
GFS ens are a bit tail on the donkey although there's a cluster that have 5 days of colder uppers. Not a lot of confidence from those but no confidence for mild winning either happily.
GEM ens are all over the place, even more so than what I've seen over the past week or two (not convinced how useful they are TBH, so much scatter even before this evening).
ECM ens are pretty good in comparison, yes some milder scatter but a reasonable cold cluster which have 5-6 days of colder uppers.
MOGREPS, hard to tell as shorter timeframe. They show the initial cold shot around 15th Jan then there's a rise, need to see where that goes over the next couple of days.
Leaving the south centric musings aside, it's a positive picture still if you want cold, with variations on a theme. I still reckon GFS is doing the play with a new signal, overdo it thing and will moderate back towards something a bit more ECM like but as ever, more runs needed. GEM maybe doing the same - despite how well it verifies these days I always feel it goes off on one sometimes, particularly at range. All in all there's clearly a realistic chance of a less favourable mild/cold balance for the far south but not a unanimous signal and there's a decent chance even here of 5-6 days of cold. The further north you head, the more confidence there is in a cold outcome and you'd like to think there'd be some good snow chances too.
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08 January 2024 20:50:05
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