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Old February 2nd 10, 09:36 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Dawlish writes:
There's some agreement this morning John; both the gfs and the ECM now
agree on us *not* having easterlies at 10 days!! shakes head


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In years of Internet model watching and a dreadful case of OCD in
monitoring them ( *)) ), I think I can confidently say that I've
never seen such a level of inconsistency, from all the major models,
over a 4-day period. That's why 10-day forecasting is *so* difficult
and is simply not possible, with reasonable accuracy, most of the
time.


Yep. The only model out of the three I monitor not to have done a volte
face between yesterday's 12Z run and today 00Z in the UKMO, which still
brings in an easterly this weekend.
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