I like these Musings to be positive affairs; highlighting improving weather. However, when we are at a critical time of the year, such as now for many of you who afre farmers, it's important to really tell it like it is. And the weather window we have over the next few days

You will have heard me make mention of our weather pattern being driven by the Arctic Dipole Anomaly, a relatively new phenomena to climate scientists and of increasing interest to forecasters. The reason I describe is as 'relatively new' is that it seems to be linked to the loss of sea