In article
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Nick writes:
The GFS and ECM look absolutely horrible with no redeeming features
whatsoever. As well as mild and wet, they look like an SAD sufferer's
nightmare with the lows in just the wrong place - meaning we seem to
be stuck in damp, gloomy, mild SSW winds from now to what seems like
late next week - seems possible we won't see the sun at all in the
south of England for at least a week if they come off. If we can't get
the cold I'd prefer it goes "the other way" and get full zonality to
be honest.

The 00Z ECM operational run was on the mild side, going by the ensemble
data he

http://www.weerplaza.nl/15daagseverw...m.asp?r=midden

But the ensemble average certainly isn't cold, remembering that this
data is for the Netherlands. Seeing the "Control" run veer off into an
icy Wonderland, it's interesting that the 06Z GFS Control does something
very similar, when its operational run is one of the mildest ensemble
members:

http://www.wzkarten3.de/pics/MT8_London_ens.png

(And as with the ECM, the ensemble mean is pretty average.) So maybe
it's such a knife-edge situation that the extra resolution of the
operational runs is really important in getting the correct (in this
case mild, it seems) solution?
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