cloud cuckoo land at this range but the GFS is keen to build pressure
over Greenland again at T312 - I wonder if this is just going to be
the pattern for the rest of the winter?

On Dec 21, 9:14*pm, Scott W wrote:
cloud cuckoo land at this range but the GFS is keen to build pressure
over Greenland again at T312 - I wonder if this is just going to be
the pattern for the rest of the winter?

It does appear that this pattern is going to continue, in fact gfs has
shown this happening a couple of days earlier that it was two days
ago, so there seems to be some consistency in it's probability. The
ensemblies at that range can't make there mind up between another
northerly or easterly, high pressure in two completely different
areas, Greenland or Scandinavia.

Is the last week of the year just going to be another *suckers gap*,
it certainly may prove to be the crucial point of the winter which
sets the scene for 2011.

Just waiting for 18z run, to see if it's still showing up.

Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
"Weather Home & Abroad"

On Dec 21, 9:14*pm, Scott W wrote:
cloud cuckoo land at this range but the GFS is keen to build pressure
over Greenland again at T312 - I wonder if this is just going to be
the pattern for the rest of the winter?

I think any breakdowns in the blocking set-up are going to be short-
lived and just add to snow levels. We're stuck with this till March.
Not 62-63, more like 78-79.

On 21/12/10 21:30, haaark wrote:
On Dec 21, 9:14 pm, Scott wrote:
cloud cuckoo land at this range but the GFS is keen to build pressure
over Greenland again at T312 - I wonder if this is just going to be
the pattern for the rest of the winter?

I think any breakdowns in the blocking set-up are going to be short-
lived and just add to snow levels. We're stuck with this till March.
Not 62-63, more like 78-79.

What was 78-79 like?

In article ,
Adam Lea writes:
On 21/12/10 21:30, haaark wrote:
On Dec 21, 9:14 pm, Scott wrote:
cloud cuckoo land at this range but the GFS is keen to build pressure
over Greenland again at T312 - I wonder if this is just going to be
the pattern for the rest of the winter?

I think any breakdowns in the blocking set-up are going to be short-
lived and just add to snow levels. We're stuck with this till March.
Not 62-63, more like 78-79.

What was 78-79 like?

The winter really began at the end of December. After that, at least in
the south, repeated cold, snowy spells of a week or two were
interspersed with brief thaws. I believe that on many occasions the thaw
never reached regions further north.
--
John Hall
"I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly,
will hardly mind anything else."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84)

The winter really began at the end of December. After that, at least in
the south, repeated cold, snowy spells of a week or two were
interspersed with brief thaws. I believe that on many occasions the thaw
never reached regions further north.
--
Snowiest Winter I can remember here John by some distance and lasted into
the first week of May!!
Amazing Winter.

Graham (North Staffs)

On Dec 21, 10:13*pm, John Hall wrote:
In article ,
*Adam Lea writes:

On 21/12/10 21:30, haaark wrote:
On Dec 21, 9:14 pm, Scott *wrote:
cloud cuckoo land at this range but the GFS is keen to build pressure
over Greenland again at T312 - I wonder if this is just going to be
the pattern for the rest of the winter?

I think any breakdowns in the blocking set-up are going to be short-
lived and just add to snow levels. We're stuck with this till March.
Not 62-63, more like 78-79.

What was 78-79 like?

The winter really began at the end of December. After that, at least in
the south, repeated cold, snowy spells of a week or two were
interspersed with brief thaws. I believe that on many occasions the thaw
never reached regions further north.
--
John Hall
* * * * * * * *"I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly,
* * * * * * * * will hardly mind anything else."
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84)

The first winter I remember, though my memories are very sketchy. I
was living in Cheshire at the time, and remember a forecast of heavy
snow on around Dec 30th, which actually fell during the morning of New
Years Day. I then remember a slushy thaw on the first Saturday of the
new year, followed by a foggy weekend, though which weekend that was,
I'm not sure.

Memories of the rest of the winter are very vague, but I do have a
vague memory of snow being on the ground for weeks and weeks later in
the winter - would that be right for the Cheshire area? Then I
remember a cold wet spring.

Then there was just about no snow whatsoever until Dec 1981 (though we
did move down south in summer 79, which probably didn't help...)

Nick