Martin Rowley wrote:

I know Darren uses this in his analysis, but I'm not sure how many
others know of this page & capabilities:-

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gefs.php

but at first sight, the page appears to be of benefit to users in (or
interested in) France. However, if you click around anywhere on the
map, you will bring up (after a short delay) a plume diagram for that
point from the GFS Ensemble suite (or GFES), even if well away from
metropolitan France.

The default output shows:-
Temperature 850hPa
Temperature 500hPa
Precipitation (6hr accumulation)

covering the full 384 hour output.

However, use the menu bar at the bottom, to bring up the other output:

Pressure & Precipitation
ThetaE & CAPE
Temperature 2M (i.e. approx. screen temp)

and using the appropriate active link
(Passer ` 0-180h)
you can concentrate on the first 180 hours (or 7.5 days-worth) of the
model output.

Using the "Dernier diagramme du run de" hot link, you can also
display previous runs, or all four runs on top of each other.

The entire site at:-
http://www.meteociel.fr/

is well worth playing around with - use the various menus at the
left-hand side.

Martin.

Looks like an interesting site. I hadn't come across it before. I note
that the max/min temperature charts currently on display include the
+26.5 and -8.8 reported from Hurn. The max/min colour shading even
manages to incorporate these values - copmputers can be too clever :-(

Norman
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