The Korean Met Agency have issued their latest ideas for summer using the GLOSEA5 model (the same as the UK Met Office). Mean 500mb height anomalies show higher than average heights south of Ireland and the southwest UK, suggesting an increased intensity of the Azores ridge here. High heights are also

Monday is a quandary. There's little doubt that the flow is a moist southwesterly but models are not in agreement as to how much rain there will be. GFS currently does this for the 12-hours to midday Monday....approx 25mm of rain in NW England and NW Wales...   ...then a further 15-20mm in the afternoon.

It may have been a longtime coming but the mixed spell of weather we enter from today is not set to last very long. Here's the 7-day rainfall anomaly for the next 7-days. It nicely shows the wettest of the weather in western Wales, NW England, SW Scotland and Ireland, most

Okay so it is dry. Really dry for some. But true to form the news media are starting to go into overdrive. They just love it! Hosepipe bans, devastated crops, pest control, they are all now on the media agenda. It's important that we keep this spell of dry weather in