UK meteorology

I thought I'd post a lesson this afternoon as I've found some information that clarifies some of the details of different types of high and low pressure areas, and I thought it might be of interest here. This is the link:
http://www.theweatherprediction.com/basic/pressuretypes/
Further to that lesson, and the link I posted, here's a section from the same website that goes into greater detail regarding positive vorticity, which I mentioned:
http://www.theweatherprediction.com/habyhints2/575/
I'll write a similar lesson post on areas of high pressure soon; possibly over the weekend.
 
couple of savage days in Lincs - couldn't get to work today and we're declared closed tomorrow

Managed to get to work at Immingham this morning but it was touch and go whether I'd manage the journey at one point. A bit of consolation, it was much easier driving back this evening with the roads being generally dry.

Easier than the job we did this evening on the Humber, with the wind driving the river against the ebb tide in to quite lumpy waters one doesn't usually expect on a river.
 
Managed to get to work at Immingham this morning but it was touch and go whether I'd manage the journey at one point. A bit of consolation, it was much easier driving back this evening with the roads being generally dry.

Easier than the job we did this evening on the Humber, with the wind driving the river against the ebb tide in to quite lumpy waters one doesn't usually expect on a river.
The river Fal can be proper lumpy driving against an an ebb tide, tiz surprising! So I know what you mean about the road being easier. :) P.
 
Got to work today with little problems, top lane cut through drifts higher than the car in a couple of places. Easy journey by comparison though. On another note it isn't easy getting chains off when the wheel arch is packed with dirty snow.
Most weather fun I've had in years!
 
Today's post (part1) - don't worry about the second and third diagrams - they're Skew-T plots taken from soundings of the upper atmosphere, and I have yet to fully understand how to interpret them!:oops::
Time to take brief stock of the position today which is quite complex

At midnight the low is in the Bay of Biscay with the triple point south of the Brest Peninsula and a double warm front structure over southern England and in the Channel. Through the night these have continued to bring outbreaks of snow, freezing rain and rain to the south west and south with very strong winds winds, particularly in the south west where it has been gusting up to 55kts in Cornwall. A glance at the 00 soundings for Camborne and Herstmonceux quickly shows how the warm air has encroached and where the freezing rain is coming from





During the day the low has tracked north to be over the Scilly Isles at 1800 and the fronts have morphed into a wrap around occlusion which has tracked north into the Midlands along with another belt of snow which will affect Wales, Southern England and the Midlands and still very windy. Not forgetting in all of this conditions elsewhere, in particular the north east where conditions continue to be grim with a continuation of frequent snow showers and remaining very windy, and it goes without saying, bitterly cold as it does everywhere else apart from the far south west



 
Part 2:
Continuing from the above by 00 Saturday the low is slowly filling and the patchy snow continues to track north on the occlusion and by morning another widespread hard frost and still feeling bitterly cold in the strong wind The scenario of snow showers in the north east and patchy snow moving erratically north continues through Saturday but the complex upper trough is complicating matters with it's associated surface lows impinging on the south west and later in the day further snow, sleet and rain will affect that area. And by now less cold in the south than recently (not that difficult)





Over the next three days low pressure will dominate over the UK and it will become less cold generally with the biting wind abating although still cold in the north where more snow is likely. Elsewhere unsettled weather with outbreaks of sleet, snow and rain at times





This of course according to the GFS
The ecm also agreeing with it generally becoming less cold and tending towards a N/S split

 
Havoc here with the snow. no buses very few cars. going by the forecast not sure if i will be working on Monday either. :mad:.
Took a walk to local supermarket for essentials. beer, wine and pork scratchings. Well it is the weekend.:D
 
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