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Old October 20th 03, 07:29 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
Darren Prescott Darren Prescott is offline
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Default Question regarding today's Fax charts

Hi all,

On today's 00z analysis chart, there's a small low over SW Norway, with an
associated trough:

http://129.13.102.67/wz/pics/bracka.gif

The low then deepens and moves SSW'wards to lie over the southern North Sea
at T+36.

http://129.13.102.67/wz/pics/brack0a.gif

Unlike most lows, this one's not only moved in an odd direction, but it
doesn't seem to have normal fronts - is this a fabled polar low, or merely
some other synoptic feature? (There's also a strange low to the SW of
Svalbard on the same chart, with no fronts at all - again, seems unusual,
but maybe it's just me getting excited that we're having winds from the NE
for once