1 - The weekend starts wet for much of Britain as a band of rain, sleet & snow makes its way east. Drier & brighter for Ireland & Northern Ireland on Saturday morning. 2 - Saturday afternoon sees rain clear all but the far southeast of England. Brighter conditions follow across

Following on from Simon's musing on Thursday (here), I thought I'd take a look at the latest forecast for the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and see how it was looking. Things are pretty quiet in the tropics just now, as they often are in January, with the MJO not really presenting as

  As Alexi noted in Friday's musing (available here), we have high pressure ridging over southern parts of the UK and Ireland this weekend and, as a result, freezing fog will become a risk for many. The above charts show forecast visibility from the EURO4 model for 6am on Saturday (left)