"Keith (Southend)" wrote in message
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Jon O'Rourke wrote:


I'm not convinced by the GFS' return to zonality in the long range,
hence my
money's on something like the current EC solution
http://meteocentre.com/models/ecmwf_...p00_9panel.gif

The low level air's looking quite chilly too as you suggest, Will, but
hopefully they'll be enough gradient to prevent the dreaded fog/freezing
fog
like we had around the same time last year.

Jon.

Those 500 heights don't look right to me? Dec 13th 564 - 570, I'd expect
it 27C !

Or have I missed something.

It's the 500mb geopotential height field, Keith, not 1000/500mb thickness.

Cheers,
Jon.