It's been quite a lively start to the East Pacific Hurricane Season with already one hurricane present, last week, and now we have Hurricane Bud as well. This system is developing quite rapidly over the very warm ocean water of the East Pacific and with favourable conditions in the next

There goes another weekend and here comes another week! - For those of who out there enjoying this run of persistent dry and warm weather the bad news is there will be some changes ahead this week, as cooler and fresher conditions arrive, along with some wet weather too later

We are now well into early June and the continuation of the drier than average and warmer than average conditions from May continue. The most recent anomaly plots do highlight the reason for this very well. On the below image, showing sea level pressure between the 1st and the 6th,