Winter v.2 is on the way!

Hi all, 


Just trying something here...


A pretty dramatic air mass change is on the way for the British Isles. I hope you enjoyed a bit of warmth the last few days, temps at Foxley here reached 22.3C, the warmest March temperature I've recorded since I started my weather station in Dec 2011. 


For some places this is was the warmest spell of March weather since the late 1960s! 


A weak cold front will cool things off a bit on Thursday through Saturday, with a brief warmer day on Sunday...but the real fun comes on Sunday night through Tuesday as an Artic Maritime Airmass pushes southwards across all of Britain, plunging us back into winter-like conditions. Could be some wintry showers/snow in place, with daytime temperatures by Monday struggling to get much above 5C. Check out the charts linked. 


I think this should let you comment, so ask questions if you have any. 
CB.






 

Comments

  1. So we are talking about severe temperature differences mixing in the upper atmosphere? Thunder and lighting ? Or not so likely .

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  2. Looking at different model predictions chance for snowfall is also there from Sunday-Monday onwards, is it actually likely to happen?

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  4. It looks like it might be ? We will be completely covered by the Airmass and it looks like we will be fed continuous moisture from the cold polar maritime Airways for a few days? Snow snow snow!

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  5. The risk of lightning is pretty marginal, there looks to be about 300 j/kg of CAPE (in the lowest levels), and the showers will be quite shallow (generally up to around 650hPa). But yes, looks like a pretty good chance of snow from Monday morning into Tuesday, although nothing any where near what we saw back in Feb.

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  6. Snow this morning in Essex - typical bank holiday weather. Next door are still having a BBQ

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