Here comes the weekend, and with it the prospect of some mixed weather. These are your 5 Weekend Weather Things To Know ... 1. Looking wet in Ireland on Saturday, cloudier skies in the west, sunnier east. 2. Much brighter east on Saturday. 3. Warm east and south. 4. Rain southern Scotland & northern England

I love these graphs! What this picture shows is the weather regimes as predicted by the ECMWF model as a series of bars. Each of the weather regimes has given a different colour, the ones we're interested in here are red (which indicates a blocked regime, the block been caused by