The reindeer are prepped and the sleigh is freshly painted, but what of flying from Santa's workshop to the UK tonight? Firstly, it's not actually that cold, Santa has experienced much colder weather in previous years. High pressure is over Scandinavia, but unusually this isn't (yet) bringing very cold weather into

I thought we'd take another look at the updated analogues. January showing lower than average pressure over Europe, centred in the Mediterranean. That has the potential to be both wet and wintry in the British Isles. It all depends on the wind directions; more SE'ly and we are milder but if out is