Thanks John - I too have been following gavsweathervideos as well. Fingers crossed the easterly QBO doesn't fail then.
I note this topic isn't so popular? - However I find the QBO very interesting. It's uncertainty remains a mystery and will cause turmoil in model outputs and anyone delivering long range weather forecasts esp as we head ever closer towards Autumn months and - if we are still in 'limbo land' with the QBO by the time we reach October or November - then it will cause headaches for anyone issuing longer range winter/seasonal forecasts surely??
So - I am surprise there isn't more discussion on this topic.
Don't forget as well, that the above mentioned Gavin P. is also a member of this forum, so I'm surprised to see that he hasn't had anything to say on this issue here. I have noticed though, that this forum has dwindled a bit in terms of overall participation in recent years.
That of course, has nothing to do with this being a bad forum in any way (I think that it is actually a really good forum in fact), but is probably more to to do with the fact that it is at the very bottom of Brian's list of priorities from a business perspective when it comes to overall running of this site (which consists of not just the forum, but also the various other pages and data which are contained within it).
The result of this is there is probably now likely to less interest in certain subjects on this forum than what there was a number of years ago, and where you might expect there to at least be some interest in that.
If you went to another forum such as Netweather, you might get more of a response as that seems to be a bigger forum (at the moment) which includes within its various members, top forecasters such as Jo Farrow and the legendary Michael Fish. However, I have also heard some bad things about so if you are sensitive and easily offended by whatever replies you get in response to your posts, you might want to avoid that one altogether.
If you have a Google account though which can be used as a GMail account for emails, or for signing into other Google services such as YouTube, you might want to post a comment on a page with one of Gavin P.'s videos, or whilst in the process of watching one of his live streams. That is something which he will almost certainly reply to himself, and I have found that he has been very good when it comes to that (not just that has resulted in me being mentioned in a few of his live streams as a result).
The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.