WX temp charts as yesterday show
W Europe remaining cool, both absolutely and by comparison with norm over the next two weeks. The freezing weather over N Scandinavia and Russia bulks up in week 2 and pushes SW-wards down towards Ukraine. If any change for Britain, slightly milder in week 2. After the pptn in week 1 which remains in the same place as before (Atlantic - Britain - France - Italy), a dramatic change in week 2 with very dry weather moved from Ukraine to cover virtually all of W Europe, except just the fringes (apologies to Ireland!)
GFS Op - zonal W-lies until Fri 1st when trough from the NW swings into Britain (985mb N Ireland) , drifting into Scotland and filling before new LP also from NW 995mb N Ireland Mon 4th. After that a HP block sets up, beginning 1035mb Norway Wed 6th moving S to Switzerland Tue 12th, S-lies for Britain during this time but with Atlantic LP never far from W Ireland. After that the HP loses control and light W-lies affect Britain.
ECM - minor differences from GFS; the weekend's LP is deeper and centred over England, then the Atlantic LP is not as deep and further to the SW so winds turn SE-ly Fri 8th.
GEFS - mild to finish Feb, dropping to cool with rain as March comes in (good chance of snow briefly), remaining damp (most marked in the S) and cool for the first week of March, with good agreement to this point. Then although mean temp stays near norm, and nearly all members dry, both op & control stupidly warm in the S by Tue 12th only a couple of days after the control run is insanely cold on Sat 9th - so watch this space!
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