Talking of little features cropping up GFS has a little area of precip run in to Hampshire/IOW and along the coast earlyish Sunday morning. Suspect it will disappear on the next run but shows the potential is there for enhanced areas of precip.

Before then there's (as per the MetO forecasts) a little feature that runs down the North Sea coastline from Southern Scotland, fizzling before it gets to Norfolk.

Bigger picture and if I had to guess I'd say the 18z Op is going to stall the LP in the Atlantic and decay it.

Edit: Brian beat me to it on the Sunday thing!

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Now there’s a shock some features cropping up in this set up which is why any bone dry comments need to be put into context

18z is a shocker, I’d imagine top of the ens. Fine until the extended range.

An observation - it is currently -4C here, notably colder than any of the forecasts for this time frame. Similar last night. 

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I doubt many people would see this chart and think "an all time classic snow event". 😂😂

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Here is the corresponding precipitation type forecast chart. 

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More runs extending the cold IMBY on the short ensembles, albeit little likelihood of any snow this far south!
https://modeles16.meteociel.fr/modeles/gensp/runs/2022120718/graphe3_00000_220_247___.gif 

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GFS 12z & 18z runs beginning to come on board in prolonging the cold.

Met long range forecast today has clear signals for the cold to last, at least in the North, until January. One of the most bullish, cold outlooks I've seen from the Met over the years. 

Most cold lovers of course are craving snow, but this is shaping up to be a very prolonged period of Winter cold temperatures across the UK regardless. 

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BBC tonight forecasting widespread freezing fog for the weekend. 🙄

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BBC tonight forecasting widespread freezing fog for the weekend. 🙄

Freezing fog is great at this time of year, When it lifts you're left with a landscape painted white.

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Freezing fog is great at this time of year, When it lifts you're left with a landscape painted white.

Only once I seen it in Dec 1991 but rest sent temps flying high as over 10C rise once fog descend and wreck havac on my low temps data.  If they are forecasting freezing then temps should carry  on dropping.   I rather have snow than fog.  Weird models lately for showing LP over us but no snow.

That model seems very prone to have very low temperatures! The same chart on the UKV model for 0400 tomorrow morning has typically -2 to -5 in the area where that chart shows -15. It has a long way to go!

Well at 1am it was already -6C in southern England (eg Benson) 

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Well at 1am it was already -6C in southern England (eg Benson) 

So, not only did it show overnight mínima in the NW Highlands far too low for the localised coldest spots, it also showed them far too high for the coldest places in England. Although to be fair many of the models had the latter issue.

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High risk, high gain is the buzz phrase again, with EC especially playing with a snowstorm but a small change and its rain into the south. All good fun.
PS: GFS again out of kilter with its suite. The mean is much colder longer term than the OP.

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ECM pushes the low pressure quite far north which is a good thing if you want snow. 

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ECM pushes the low pressure quite far north which is a good thing if you want snow.

A long way off, and largely all charts point to continued bone dry weather ahead. 

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A long way off, and largely all charts point to continued bone dry weather ahead. 

ECM this morning is what we want though certainly for the southern third of the UK.  

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A long way off, and largely all charts point to continued bone dry weather ahead. 

yawn change the record - you have your phrase you want to impose and I will say now it’s wrong

yawn change the record - you have your phrase you want to impose and I will say now it’s wrong

Time will tell.​​​​​​​A virtual pint says I will be right. 😂  

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However *if* the ECM 0Z verified, I will be buried in snow late next week with around 25cm showing on the precipitation charts.
 ​​​​​​​Marcus, best get your snow shoes ready.​​​​​​​I will take a punt and say it's not going to happen though.   

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Time will tell.A virtual pint says I will be right. 😂  

​​​​​​​just remember your summer prediction- pretty sure you said you would be right then we all know what happened