It's not quite there just yet, but the ECMWF 46-day outlook is now available until late December. Things are looking very similar to our analogue forecast (see below) for December which showed a tendency towards higher heights to the west and hence higher pressure and colder conditions. Of course much can

A research paper publish in the journal Climate Dynamics raises some interesting questions about climate change. "Reconstructing 800 years of summer temperatures in Scotland from tree rings" was written by academics in the UK, USA and Europe and looked at tree rings from ancient forests in the Cairngorms. Below is a graph from