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Old November 24th 10, 02:07 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
Tudor Hughes Tudor Hughes is offline
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On Nov 24, 12:43*am, paul leslie wrote:
Is that the rarely seen polar low coming south .comments please.


It's not a Polar Low as normally defined but seems to owe its
existence partly to lee effects west of Scandinavia and partly to
synoptic-scale effects whereas a Polar Low is more of a mesoscale
phenomenon, at least initially.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.