The link up later in the week with the Russian/Siberian High seems to
have diminished. It is this that would give me some confidence that a
more sustained cold spell was upon us. I see nothing much coming from
the current Northerly/Northeasterly in the next couple of days. I hope
some of the models change again, it's not looking very promising to me
:-(


Keith (Southend)

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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:04:58 -0000, "Will Hand"
wrote:


"Pete B" wrote in message
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"Will Hand" wrote in message
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I had noticed the interesting trend in the ECMWF charts this morning but my
enthusiasm for the weather that may be associated with such developments was
tempered somewhat by the observation he

http://grads.iges.org/pix/temp4.html

In spite of the very favourable surface chart appearance, there does not
seem to be a great mass of very cold air over the near continent at any
stage, assuming of course that these charts shown in the above link are in
any way reliable.

I still await real time developments with interest though.

--
Pete

Which is why I didn't go OTT and go for widespread snow under deep cold pools
etc.
Not that they can entirely ruled out of course !

Will.