As the UK and Ireland get battered by Storm Barbara what is it that yule (ged'it?) need to know about the weather this Christmas weekend? 1. Storm Barbara will continue to bring severe gales to Scotland through today and into tonight. In fact, the winds won't ease in northern Scotland until

  Okay, so verse isn't my thing, but my point is that we still have a cool pool of water in the Atlantic west of the UK. The chart below shows the sea temperature anomalies for Monday and you can see that blue colour in the Atlantic west of Ireland, extending towards