It's late summer but the weekend will feel like mid autumn at times. Here are the 5 Weekend Weather Things to Know ... 1. Severe gales on Saturday, especially west and south. 2. Gusts to over 50mph on western and southern coasts on Saturday, very high seas. 3. Heavy showers, especially southern Scotland, western

There's increasing agreement between longer range models of higher pressure trying to dominate in October. Here's the 500mb forecast for October from the CFS and see how the heights are forecast to be above normal (the orange and red colours). The ridge is actually centred over Ireland which would indicate quite a

The latest 46-day guidance from the ECMWF is in, and here's what it says ... 20th August to 26th August Trough develops west of Ireland with lower than average 500mb heights over many western areas. A southwest jet over the south of Ireland an southern areas of the UK. This indicates an unsettled period