Rising temperatures through the coming week. It's all a bit hyped up by the press (you wouldn't expect anything else would you?), but warm it will be. The graph blow shows how temperatures rise at Manchester in the coming 8 days...   Provisionally, August 2016 is currently +0.4C above average for the CET

A bit of a change from our usual musing topics today, but one which I hope will be of interest to you. The annual Persied meteor showers reaches in peak during Friday afternoon. Yes, I know it will be light then and so there is no chance of seeing a shooting star, but