Complete agreement and consistency between all models tonight. We're
in for a blowy first half of the month with above average rainfall and
episodes of hill snow.

*** At T240 on 15/12/2011, the UK will still be in an extended period
of Atlantic-driven, essentially zonal weather. Temperatures will be
above average on occasions, but there will be spells of below average
temperatures and hill snow, as depressions race across the UK, with
alternating Pm and Tm air masses. Temperatures by mid month will
probably be below average, but certainly not significantly so and
close to average in the south. Rainfall amounts wil be above average
in all areas away from the SE and there is the potential for gales,
especially in the west and north. Frost will occur in ridges of high
pressure.***

Nothing particularly cold and no significant lowland snow. The sledges
will have to stay in the sheds, unless one heads for the hills. If
this stops by Christmas, there will have to be some changes on those
models soon. It's a zonal train and the blocking of the early part of
last winter looks to be absent in the early part of this.