It's always a dangerous game talking about the weather from 6 weeks out, but I can't help but be excited by this one. Below, I've pasted the ECMWF week-average forecast wind field for 5th October to 12th October. These are the winds at 850hPa, or approximately at the height of

How did August rainfall stack up against the historical average? Certainly more rain than July, but we're still below average in many places. The image below is the percent of average rainfall chart for August, relative to the August average for 1991-2020: Certainly better than July (where in parts of England, no