Happy Monday everyone, here's five quick things to know about the weather for the coming week. 1 - Northwest/southeast split: If nothing else, just know that high pressure is dominant over England and Wales and low pressure is dominant over Scotland and Ireland, corresponding to settled and unsettled conditions, respectively. 2 - Mild

I took a snip of the radar image yesterday from just before 3pm: see below. A broad band of rain stretching from northern Scotland all the way town to Cornwall with a thick core across the west of Scotland. Some very heavy local rain in the southwest of Scotland starting to

An interesting synoptic set-up for the end of September; see below for the 500 millibar chart from GFS, averaged over the 5-day period of Sept. 29 through Oct. 3: A very strong signal for high pressure over Scandinavia and the Baltic States (the red H) means a settled end of September