This just about sums it up.

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THE HORROR 1080p - YouTube

No real changes in the reliable frame up to 144.

Haven't checked GFS beyond that range yet but GEM at 192:

It then keeps the same theme out to 240.

At 240:

From a personal POV, this is the best set up. Higher heights over Iberia with a flatter pattern keeps away the mildest of the warm sectors.

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The people of Bergen will now be getting their annual flooding issues:

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/MT8_Bergen_ens.png

The higher parts/mountains of Hordaland will easily achieve several hundred cms of snow over the next 10 days if the current output verifies.

Sorry for talking about Norway but I can't think of any positives for much of the UK atm. That said, I do think the Scottish ski slopes will be getting some action too  

 

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This just about sums it up.

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THE HORROR 1080p - YouTube

 

 

Still apt after the 0z...

None of these will be required on this side of the pond.... ...(at least in England, maybe in Norway though...)

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Morning all.
Much as we were really, looks like a bit of a locked pattern atm so patience is required in the waiting game if it's cold your after. The AZ high pressure Looks to be on the move to the Iberian peninsula, the jet overriding and crashing through into Europe- this could be a protracted wait.
Let's hope the high ridges north a little giving us some useable weather for the south at least.

Still looking very non descript this morning. Think it's also worth highlighting how the cold block we we were talking about last week is expected to quickly erode and be shunted eastwards. It's not even as though we're on the edge of the cold and a shift rather than a tweak is needed for winter to return to the UK.

 

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Could we be looking at more date records as we go into February?

 

http://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twodata/chart.aspx?chart=/charts/gfs/00_231_mslp850.png?cb=207

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Could we be looking at more date records as we go into February?

 

http://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twodata/chart.aspx?chart=/charts/gfs/00_231_mslp850.png?cb=207

Holy Bartlett! Would provide useable weather

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Could we be looking at more date records as we go into February?

 

http://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twodata/chart.aspx?chart=/charts/gfs/00_231_mslp850.png?cb=207

Indeed. I'm surprised how quickly the TV forecasters (Met?) seem to have discounted the possibility of a return to December's exceptionally mild weather.

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I'm still watching the stratospheric warming, not so much out of expectation for wintry weather but if curiosity re. what effects if any it will have on our weather in the UK. There is no strong signal for anything wintry at the moment and the warming is due in a couple of days or so:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/black-usb-wireless-touchscreen-weather-centre-n96gy 

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Indeed. I'm surprised how quickly the TV forecasters (Met?) seem to have discounted the possibility of a return to December's exceptionally mild weather.

I think what they seem to be discounting is the chance of another extended spell of very mild weather, like we saw throughout December. That isn't to say we won't get days as mild as we saw that month again in the near future, but as far as I can tell, they seem to believe that another protracted very mild spell is unlikely.

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Closing this one... hold fire.

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