Isn't this good news? ie. Northern Blocking??
As for Accu Weather - they got last years winter's forecast wrong for Europe - south and central and east was forecast to be warmer and drier when it was colder and snowier for over a month. Parts of the south and east of Europe were in a freezer for weeks if not a month in January. and the UK and Ireland accu Weather forecast to be stormy when it was drier than average. I quote directly from the winter weather forecast from AccuWeather last October 2016.
"Above-normal rainfall across the U.K. and Ireland will result in another winter of flooding problems," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Alan Reppert said.
I don't want to be horrible or slander Accu weather but this forecast for for Europe that they produced this time last year was totally wrong
Turned out it was one of the driest winters ever recorde.d in the UK. Not to mention boring and dull. Winter 2016/2017 certainly wasn't a 'Warm' winter for Turkey, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Albania, Serbia, Kosovo, Slovenia, Hungary, Italy etc. A reminder of this below.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38554357
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So moving on now...!?
Now the AccuWeather Europe winter forecast for 2017/18:
A bit of a deja vu here.. All they have done is changed 'STORMY' to 'Stormy' Early*.
At best if it is stormy early then perhaps there will be a change to a more blocked pattern in January. Unless they default this based on bartlett HP! - Otherwise it's pure guess work IMO.
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