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FI Charts ( T120+ onwards) Winter 2022/2023 **READ MOD NOTE IN FIRST POST**

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,197 ✭✭✭.Donegal.


    I was happy enough with the “sloppy North Atlantic mixing rubbish” that lay for 5 days a few weeks ago. Must book a flight to the warmest capital city in Europe to experience some proper winter conditions.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,199 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    You might not need to go to Athens according to the latest GFS!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 982 ✭✭✭WolfeEire
    Clare (410ft asl)


    www.x.com/wolfeeire



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,199 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    Woah the GFS has hit the bottle early again. -12 into parts of the east for Valentine's Day. Pity all this was not at t48. I wonder willl the ECM show any support for this. If it does not and sides towards the UKMO earlier on with a flatter pattern, i think the chances of the GFS being right are not good.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 982 ✭✭✭WolfeEire
    Clare (410ft asl)


    Ecm was a mild outlier. The mean is on the cold side but nothing exceptional.


    www.x.com/wolfeeire



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,199 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    Something like that maybe the outcome at least for the moment , we get the scraps - bits of continental cold - while the likes of Greece goes in the freezer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 982 ✭✭✭WolfeEire
    Clare (410ft asl)


    Met Éireann monthly outlook bullish on above average temps and unsettled conditions next week. Ukmo the same

    https://www.met.ie/forecasts/monthly-forecast

    www.x.com/wolfeeire



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,462 ✭✭✭PokeHerKing


    GFS still churning out the eye candy 🥶



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,171 ✭✭✭Rebelbrowser


    A few frames later its better again...




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭esposito


    GFS, please stop teasing us and giving us false hope. You know you are wrong.

    EC and UKMO not on board so….



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,171 ✭✭✭Rebelbrowser


    Actually, helluva similarity now between the operational run and the random perturbation 16 I posted for a laugh a few days ago...

    Perturbation 16 from 2 days ago...


    And today's 6z gfs for the same time




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,242 ✭✭✭pauldry


    GFS must stand for Generating False Snow



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,199 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    Well this is going to be either a massive victory for the GFS or....


    With the Euro and UKMO against it I think it's the or... but rank outsiders do come through to win sometimes.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,999 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    this time I'm not buying into it, need to see cross model agreement before any hints of excitement, we've been lead down the garden path several times over the past 2 to 3 winters.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,589 ✭✭✭Billcarson


    Great 06z run this morning,gfs not backing down for now. Imagine if /when it backs down the other models take up the cold batten lol. That would really mess with our heads. Lol



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,999 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    GFS 6z has basically no support other than 2 other members so the chances of this verifying are almost 0.0%

    a wild cold outlier. A huge amount of scatter from 7th of February but the overall trend is to keep temperatures and precipitation close to average.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,242 ✭✭✭pauldry


    Think late February and March might bring late cold if the stars align.

    That Polar Mish Mash might affect us then. Or nothing. But one has to hope.

    Also there does look to be a brief cold snap chance around mid month but this is 50/50 at best.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,999 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    I think we could easily get some cold around final week of February/beginning of March. Not really buying into the mid month cold spell other than a glancing blow as that cold is most likely to flow south-westwards across the continent and miss us entirely. Hope i'm wrong as I would much rather some decent cold week 2 of February compared to final week of the month or early March which is worse again.

    Overall the GFS 12z brings extra members into the mild category and the ensemble mean is starting to trend above average rather than average.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,462 ✭✭✭PokeHerKing


    GFS is gonna be a hero or zero



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,025 ✭✭✭John.Icy


    Can someone with the required knowledge point out whether much snow is even possible on some of the GFS runs? Pressure above 1035 hPa. Can deep cold arriving override a pressure pattern that typically would be dry or very light precip. at best? The below is not a snowy chart to me but instability and all that is not my area.


    By Day 10, the GFS does have thickness lowering and pressure dropping as an LP forms south of Ireland, so a snowier setup. However that seems to cut off the cold and spell an end to the pattern. But before then and previous GFS runs I would have said it'll be close but no cigar if those runs came off. Looks great for the continent though.

    Honestly, if this is all put to rest in the next two days, I don't know where the GFS goes from here. It's already fallen behind both the GEM and JMA since the upgrade and resides 5th place in the model verification stats at several lead times. Sure most people wouldn't even monitor the JMA on a daily basis so where does that leave the GFS? It really really needs some sort of win soon.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭esposito


    A pub run special. Brutal cold heading west across England and Wales and dare I say it over to Ireland.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 982 ✭✭✭WolfeEire
    Clare (410ft asl)


    The op on somewhat of a solo run.

    BUT, it has more support compared to the 00z (bottom). It has a long way to travel on its own to get to deep cold next week, nevermind the lack of any real support from other models.

    Fascinating to watch all the same


    Re: @John.Icy a more ENE to NE airflow would be more favourable as the sea fetch in a ESE or E is not as great for streamers. That low coming out of Biscay mind you....🤤

    www.x.com/wolfeeire



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,171 ✭✭✭Rebelbrowser


    Probably been asked and answered but didn't the GFS show the February/ March 2018 cold spell first?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,242 ✭✭✭pauldry


    Yes but since it got upgraded its output verification and accuracy have gone in the other direction.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,999 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    Yeah you can't compare the GFS of 2018 to the new 2023 one, it's been terrible and barely anything posted in this thread from the GFS FI charts has ever verified since the update except for some of the mild outcomes. None of the easterlies, snowy, stormy or exceptionally mild stuff has verified.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,171 ✭✭✭Rebelbrowser


    I see now the GFS is going for an extended very cold spell but is still completely on its own! Mad stuff....



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,462 ✭✭✭PokeHerKing


    No let up from the GFS. Serious consistency all the same. The GFS has picked up the spells in early December and January.

    So it's picking up the ones that count. Hopefully it'll be 3 in a row but it is literally on its Toblerone with this so I'm not breaking out the snow shovel yet.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,589 ✭✭✭Billcarson


    Well I suppose the longer the gfs sticks to its guns the better the chance for a cold spell. Unlikely but the fact its still going for it must lower the odds.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭mcburns07




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭Nabber


    GFS model has no outcome in cold chances 😛


    More likely to see incremental downgrades as the cold slips by 6-12hrs on each run.

    The roller ride can be better than the cold actually arriving.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,999 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    and the cold is gone on the 6z. No surprises there when the GFS ensembles had no support for cold in the first place. The operational just kept spitting out the coldest most unreliable chart possible over the past few days, it's so bad it makes the CFS extended look good.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,462 ✭✭✭PokeHerKing


    It's away cross the foam Gonzo but it's not completely gone




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,199 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre



    Yeah, rather than a total about turn we are seeing downgrades of the cold to a local pool in much of England with the deep cold well to the east . These downgrades will likely continue on the next run. Although I would be amused if it showed another potent easterly moving westwards towards us, but that is highly unlikely now. Still if the scandi high can remain firm we may get another chance after mid month when the mjo is in a more favourable phase for blocking. The danger is the westerlies get back in though and we have a couple of weeks of fully mobile weather. I am still of the view that March could be quite cold.


    Wrong chart posted above - that was the pub run special from last night.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,999 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    Gavsweather vids today called out the GFS for what it is, an abysmal run of failures since the update went live at the start of the winter. Just about everything past the 120 hour mark hasn't verified by the GFS since early December.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,999 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    The Pub run is at it again, lovely easterly and unstable too, and just in time before it's too late. Better keep dreaming.

    If only this could verify, 5 years chasing an easterly.



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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,999 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    Looking at the longer range models both the JMA and CFS are going for a very dry and anticyclonic February so very little measurable rain until at least the 3rd week of February. After this there are hints that northern blocking will get going into week 4 and this may begin a pattern shift as we transition from February into March.

    Looking at the CFS extended a cold to very cold March is looking possible with the type of weather we so desperately wanted in January and early February.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭esposito


    Always the way. Still, if we get something similar to late Feb to Mid March 2018 I won’t be complaining.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,346 ✭✭✭highdef


    1 to 5 cm of snow, best case scenario. Yay. Sure I got about 4cm of snow in West Leinster a few weeks back.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,890 ✭✭✭sparrowcar


    So then you won't begrudge us east coasters who have got very little this year. I'll take a few cms near the coast thanks, better than nothing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,346 ✭✭✭highdef


    Too true. I got lucky in my Midlands location. I was only expecting 1 or 2cm from that spell. Having said that, it wasn't a big dumping of snow or anything, far from being snowed in but the local roads required great care.




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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 12,208 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    ECM for a few runs showing little rain until later next weekend or into Monday 13th, then showing heavy frontal rain around Monday/ Tuesday with possible strong winds and blustery for a few days and introducing colder NW'lys with wintry precipitation along Atlantic coastal counties. That's if that HP can be budged. Better chance of getting the cold form that direction than from the East at this stage, GFS gone right off any source of cold . GEM very like the ECM.

    The Jet looks to sink further S and as the HP slips away may introduce Atlantic weather for a time with some Polar Maritime influence ?






  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 12,208 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    The last two runs from the ECM backed off the cold, showing to be on the milder side now, some rain at times but not much in general, lots of dry spells.

    Next Mon looks to hold the frontal activity, GFS also showing it , GFS much windier than the ECM. GFS does go on to show it cooler after the front goes through next Mon, GEM has pushed out the cooler air. All very.....you know....Spring like 😁






  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,999 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    A very mild outlook indeed. GFS similar to all other models showing either mild or exceptional mild conditions to dominate our weather over the next few weeks. After a mild January, February is on target to be exceptionally mild so this winter overall is likely to finish up milder than average despite December being slightly cooler than average. Temperatures in the low to mid teens later this week and into next weekend, if this is combined with sunshine then it will certainly deliver a taste of early Spring.

    Looks very dry over the coming week but by mid month we probably will go back to a more unsettled pattern, but nothing too wet showing up on the models at the moment, certainly nowhere near the deluge conditions of the recent autumn and then the second half of December to early January period.

    If we are going to get any cold this month we may have to wait till the final week of the month, however the cold is looking much more likely for March.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,346 ✭✭✭highdef


    Oh I hope that everything you say is true @DOCARCH ! This drier and generally fairly calm weather is just brilliant. I'm doing outdoor chores in comfort the last few days. I was walking in the lower fields at the house in longford yesterday and there wasn't as much as a squish underfoot. The ground was very walkable. Another month of fairly dry weather would mean that solar radiation would be beginning to kick in, in terms of drying the soils further.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,999 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    CFS really going to town on delivering a significant pattern change from the final days of February and well into the month of March.

    Turning chilly end of February with parts of the UK going into the freezer.

    Chilly opening week of March with north-easterly winds at times but will it be cold enough for snow?

    Another blast end of 1st week of March and into the second week, on this chart Ireland narrowly misses out on a direct hit.

    After this we go high and dry and staying very chilly.

    Later in the month we get a very cold northerly and go into the freezer in terms of upper air temperatures.

    The above probably doesn't mean much as this is the CFS but it has been sticking to it's guns for quite a while now showing a very chilly March overall. Definitely a trend here for March to be quite different to what we have seen all winter.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    The media are playing up a "beast of the east 2" for end of Feb

    Anything to sell papers



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,311 ✭✭✭Cork2021


    It was just on the news headlines on Newstalk! I’m the most amateurishly weather enthusiast and I bleeding know this is bull



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,589 ✭✭✭Billcarson


    Well there is a ssw likely next week which does increase the chances of a cold spell down the line. It wouldn't be too surprising if we did indeed get a cold spell late feb/ early March. It might lead to something, it might lead to nothing.......



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,311 ✭✭✭Cork2021




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,242 ✭✭✭pauldry


    Frost and Dry weather is what Sligo is getting. East might get snow but too early to be mentioning Beasts. Could be one of the colder Marches. Probably the coldest month of the "Winter". Even though its Spring.



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