Yesterday's videos give an insight into our near-term cold spell, but how are things looking more long term in terms of cold weather? See the 35-day GFS ensemble temperature chart for Birmingham, below: Model results tend to smooth out 35 days into the future, but I'm liking the look of this
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Needing all the help we can for some drier weather
Cold on the horizon?
Good day everyone 👋 So, let’s talk weather — because things might get interesting toward the latter part of next week. Over the past few days, the forecast models have been hinting at a possible transient high-pressure system trying to build in. There’s still plenty of uncertainty around this (I’d put the
5 things for the weekend
🌧️ Rain and showers dominate, with heavier bursts across southern England, Wales and southern Ireland 🌬️ Breezy at times, adding a raw feel especially in exposed areas 🌥️ Best brighter spells likely in western Ireland between showers ☁️ Plenty of cloud elsewhere, keeping conditions rather dull 🌨️ Higher ground
Yet more rain ahead in the next couple of weeks
Just how far south is the jet stream?
Looking through some data for January I thought this was an interesting chart. It shows the mean zonal wind anomaly at 30hPa (that's jet stream height at around 35,000ft). Zonal wind is the west-east flow around the hemisphere ('meridional' is the north-south flow). Now, take a look below. Hello and orange colours tell
Different Day, Same Rain
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Colder weather still teases
Here's the 11 to 15 day forecast surface temperature anomaly. Look how the depth of cold over Europe, slips through Scotland and parts of central northern and eastern England, but to the south temperatures are closer to average. Again this is highlighting how close that very cold weather is, and an occasional







