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Old February 16th 07, 04:19 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Jon O'Rourke Jon O'Rourke is offline
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Default Confidence 60% still in snow next week.

"Will Hand" wrote in message
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Despite reservations from others, I'm still 60% confident of very cold air
coming into UK next week from the east.
Dynamics are still in place. Some model runs backing up these ideas e.g

12Z GFS
at T+120 range (which is getting closer). It will be different than the

last
snow event, this time there will be a continual cold feed of air at

low-level
from the continent, not a home-grown cold pool. If it comes off snow will

be
more powdery and it will blow around more. Except in the SW, where it is

still
likely to be mainly on hills with "western type" snow i.e. big wet sticky

flakes
accumulating rapidly above 200m asl.

OK if I'm wrong I'll be the first to admit it, but I haven't seen anything

yet
today to change my mind. (I'm ignoring model details as NWP has trouble in
forecasting blocks).

Will.


Earlier ensemble data from EC was similar to yesterday.
I'll stick with PROB30 as per
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...t_weather.html

:-)

Jon.