A quick update on the drizzle and rain threat for Thursday. Here's the latest UK Met Office high resolution modelling, courtesy of Weatheronline.co.uk. Chart for 10am in showing the focus for light rain and drizzle over northwest England, NW Wales and SE Ireland (you can see the line of the front). Scattered

The latest ECMWF 46-day output has become available, confusing matters rather than making them clearer. The expectation has been for pressure to rise at the end of this week (see below pressure graph), setting in place a change to less mixed conditions for the rest of the month and into early

Loads of you trying to go for silage/haylage/hay right now. Latest thoughts on drizzle and rain for Wednesday and Thursday.... here's the forecast rainfall for Wednesday afternoon showing drizzle parts of northern England, more persistent rain western Scotland and Ireland, except the far south) . Plenty of cloud for most though,

I know we are now well into July, but minds are still troubled by the wet weather of June. Well, wet weather for most, but not all. This chart says it all about the rainfall experienced across the UK in June. It also answers why for some June was a diabolical month

Take a look at this animation from the US weather service. It shows weekly sea surface temperature anomalies since the beginning of April. Notice the cooler of the water in the Pacific close to central America (La Nina). More importantly, look at how rapid the water heats around the UK and Ireland,