Looking through some data for January I thought this was an interesting chart. It shows the mean zonal wind anomaly at 30hPa (that's jet stream height at around 35,000ft). Zonal wind is the west-east flow around the hemisphere ('meridional' is the north-south flow). Now, take a look below. Hello and orange colours tell

As we go into another week with low pressure south of the British Isles and high pressure north, it's hard to know what detail to pick out. The overall story for the week is one of being dull and wet; and I know so many of you need a break from

Here's the 11 to 15 day forecast surface temperature anomaly. Look how the depth of cold over Europe, slips through Scotland and parts of central northern and eastern England, but to the south temperatures are closer to average. Again this is highlighting how close that very cold weather is, and an occasional