Hello folks 

Here's Terry Scholey's musing on what the rest of Spring and Summer may have in store;

http://www.gavsweathervids.com/terryscholey.html

I'll post the links to tomorrows five day forecast in this thread as well.

#enjoy

A summer of severe thunderstorms and brief bursts of heat, nice.

Not so much a summer... Only one nice 'ish month.

I'd certainly welcome some extremes of weather after all these boring months we've been having of late.

Something that could add an interesting twist on top of his factors is the huge area of below normal SSTs in the central North Atlantic - something I'm keeping an eye on as it was present to a lesser extent last summer and appeared to display some correlation with unusually frequent and persistent low pressure across the Azores and at times western Europe, this allowing an abundance of high pressure in the vicinity of Scandinavia, often having a direct influence on the UK.

During this year's summer, I will I be able to develop more of an idea as to whether that apparent correlation is just a coincidence or not.