The thoughts of a wetter summer, now that we have said goodbye the extremely dry spring conditions of the last few weeks, is something uppermost in my mind right now. I keep revisiting years such as 2007 when dry spring weather was followed by torrential summer downpours. Whilst this year its different,

We are seeing a change of weather pattern in the coming weeks, something the ECMWF 6-week forecast has laboured heavily on. Here's the latest until the middle of July ... 6th June to 12th June Deep trough over the UK and Ireland bringing low pressure (see chart). Mixed to unsettled with rain and showers. Most

I'll update you further in the Look Ahead later this morning, but I've just been looking through the ECMWF 6-week as it arrives. There's a definite change in weather pattern developing and I'm increasingly thinking that the dry weather of the past few weeks will be a thing of the past