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Looking at the temperature graphs, a significant drop off looking very likely. Period 8th to 12th has full spport for upper air temps to be below the -5 threshold. Just need to get some instability in the flow..



UKMO showing some unstable air moving into the south east, snow showers possible here...

Dogs dinner!...15 degree spread after the weekend?

Fax picking up on a small low moving into the south east over the weekend...a mixture of rain sleet and maybe some light snow..frustrating that the continental air isnt as cold as it should be this time of year, it should have been an all snow feature..

SE just keeps missing out this winter

Looosy wrote: Wed Feb 05, 2025 7:25 pm SE just keeps missing out this winter

Unfortunately uppers just look too warm this weekend, likely to feel raw but rain and sleet mix the likely option.
Moving foreward, the consensus in the model world yesterday was to sink the high south later next week, however, overnight the Euro models have picked up on a new trend and send it north! This hasnthe potential of drawing the deep cold down its eastern flank towards the UK. Maybe easterly#2 will be more potent later in the month?

Others have followed the UKMO in moving the high north..some cracking charts on show for an east west battle next weekend....turning very cold in the east, Atlantic trying to encroach from the west...

Still a wide range of options on the table for the weekend and into next week. Models keep playing with the idea of the very cold air to the east inching west...on the other hand, here is ECM with an early taste of Spring!

UKMO now jumping on the spring bandwagon for next week... Personally, im ready for it, this last week or so has just been cold and misserable.

UKMO upper air temps should, if it verifies, give temperatures in double figures countrywide..

Full house now for the milder option next week with ecm finally on board...I think the term 'springlike' will be used fairly frequently over the next 10 days or so..

Ecm

Upper air Temperatures profiles for the rest of the month...a massive flip over the last 48hrs...temps 15, 16 c by next weekend?

That's quite the flip! Here's hoping March can give us a final hurrah. Although I'm rather enjoying the sun today after it's long absence.

GFS temperature profiles into March - Significant warm up this week by as much as 10 degrees compared to last week, then a drop off, probably indicating the Atlantic pushing in, then plenty of scatter as we pass the 10 day period ...

Unfortunately we cant have mild temperatures, light winds and sunshine in Winter, as soon as the temps pick up, so the wind and rain arrives !!
Expecting a fairly wild day Friday and Sunday this week, especially in the west...temps in double figuresnthough to compensate...

After a better day on Saturday with lighter winds and some sunshine, its rinse and repeat on Sunday as gales and heavy rain move in from the west once again....



Less windy next week and turning cooler.

Well, after the recent cold drab spell followed by the predicted unsettled wet and windy spell end of last week and over the weekend, ecm is going for a settled sunny and mild spell from later this week, will feel very springlike...

Next weekend:



...and through the following week..winds swing southerly..

I know we are all snow lovers, but I have to be honest I am looking forward to some sun now.

Just to rub salt in the wounds, a SSW is looking likely for week 1 March..far too late, given the lag effect on the Troposphere for a severe cold spell, but early enough to potentially give us a cold end to March and April, much like last year..when the PV shatters due to a SSW its still a case of hows your luck as to where the fragments of the Troposphere vortex get displaced to as to what the effects on our weather are...

This is what we want to see in Jan not March!

Just to warn us against complacency, with this springlike weather.. gfs comes up with this set up for mid month...where was this in January!?




Whilst this evolution, at this timeframe is unlikely, what I do expect to see as we go through next week is high pressure to the north effecting our weather bringing cold easterly winds, so expect temperatures to plummet next week, especially for the north and east..

Fine and dry with the warmest couple of days of the year this weekend. Temperatures widely nudging mid teens. A brisk south easterly wind Saturday, easing Sunday.



...then by next Tuesday, gfs has us 10 degrees colder!

Models finally beggining to sniff out a pattern change, maybe as early as next week. UKMO showing high pressure building over or to the north of the UK bringing a rest bite from the unsettled wet and currently windy weather endured over the last 3 weeks or so.