Today is another day of sunny spells and lively, heavy showers about giving the high risk of thunderstorms in some places as the day progresses. See the Skew-T diagram below showing the atmospheric profile for Leeds at 1pm today. The main thing to point out is the dotted pink line is

On the back of Simon's musing yesterday regarding the development of El Niño, Scientists are keeping a close eye on how it evolves as this could have a significant effect on the upcoming hurricane/cyclone season. Once the hurricane season in particular is up and running come 1st June all eyes