The ECMWF 46-day model has been hard at work and has produced the latest guidance for our perusal. It's always interesting to see what this well respected model is predicting, but don't forget, this is only the ECMWF perspective on how the weather might shape up, it's not our official forecast. Here's

I huge coronal hole has appeared on the surface of the sun. These holes in the suns magnetic field allow the solar wind to 'escape' from hostage-like state. You can see the hole on the latest image from the sun below, it's the 'gash' in the northern half of the