Now that the crucial battleground is within the 120 hours range, what are people's thoughts on the merits of the high-res models such as Arpege and WRF for tracking the likely developments? Are high-res models less good with those large-scale patterns?
I really like the detail on the WRF charts, hourly right out to 120 hours and will be watching with interest how the 6Z handles the end of the week. The 0Z looked really good for continued cold.
Meteociel - Modèle Numérique WRF-NMM 0.1° pour l'Europe
It's been likely (per weight of output) for a couple of days that the initial push from the low will fail. It then regathers itself for another try into next week, and it's this that either succeeds (GEM) or the block more or less holds (GFS, ECM).
The evolution is broadly the same between the 3 models - the northern blocking expands southwards through Scandinavia into mainland Europe, stopping energy from the Atlantic slipping SE'wards to varying extents (GEM the most blocked over mainalnd Europe, leading to a weaker northern portion of the block, which buckles under the eight of that big low to the west - in a really crap alignment to deny a snowy breakdown)
The GFS and ECM look disappointingly dry, though, with a SE'ly flow and the high too close to us.
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