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![](/twocommunity/Images/Emoticons/msp_angry.gif)
![](http://vortex.accuweather.com/adc2004/pub/includes/columns/newsstory/2016/650x366_09281539_2016-17-europe-winter-highlights.jpg)
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:
![](https://accuweather.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/8e45859/2147483647/resize/590x/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faccuweather-bsp.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fcf%2F63%2F3f4714dd4ec9894b5f289bddd584%2Feurope-winter-10-14.jpg)
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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