FI Charts ( T120+ onwards) Winter 2025/2026 **READ MOD NOTE IN FIRST

We all know the CFS is mostly rubbish and it has plenty of nicknames but it's always interesting to just roll the hover button way past +384 hours to spot trends, mostly the CFS will always trend to Atlantic dominance but sometimes it can pick up on cold spells or warm/hot spells but this is very rare.

Majority of the time across all models anything beyond 4 days is unreliable, and everything else is just fantasy but curiosity always gets the better of us and we just love to hover well beyond the reliability zone.

Back in the day before the internet there was always surprises and no disappointments because we had no access to weather models, only what was on RTE, BBC, ITV and Sky Channel, no more than 1 day ahead did they focus on, sometimes maybe 2 days and if they said there was going to be an easterly with snow, it came the following day and then the mild sets in and it comes. Maybe we were better off back in this day when we only had terrestial tv weather forecasts to feed on.

and as always too little too late.

Not sure I believe it, we spent almost a month since early January following an SSW split which was due to take place around 1 February, of course it never happened, just displacements over and over, doesn't really matter now as it's too late and snow falling and melting on impact mid to late March is just too little too late.

In winter yes we would always be chasing snow in here, as for Atlantic rain and storms those happen all the time and make it into general chat, dedicated threads if the storm is severe etc etc. In the summer we do like to talk about heatwaves and spanish plumes so it's not all just cold and snow in here!

I have opened the Spring FI thread since it now mostly concerns Spring and not the final days of winter.