We are moving in to the final week of October, and to sum up the month so far I think its safe to say it has been mild and wet, very wet as we know for many of us recently. In fact below is a chart showing the monthly rainfall

We continue to stay mixed to unsettled as we head through the latter stages of October, and what looks like into November. Little let up on the low pressure systems that are moving in and bringing frequent rain and or showers to many regions. Below is the latest from the

Storm Babet brought havoc, disruption and took lives. Meteorologists were not messing around with this storm and rightly so put up weather warnings well in advance so the public were given as much info as possible to prepare. Locations saw over 100mm of rainfall in a day, let alone the

After analysing the ECMWF model yesterday I am now starting to wonder whether we will see much higher pressure once November comes. Initial thoughts have been that high pressure would attempt to ridge up towards the country perhaps into the second week of the month and continue through mid month.