I've been doing a bit of reading regarding the jet stream. It's too complicated a subject to cover in a few comments on here, but here are a few links for the long evenings before Brighton v Liverpool...
Thanks for that.
I had heard that climate change will result in greater weather extremes. Both the heatwaves in July and August smashed records, and I suspect the foot of rain in November was also a record. Having said that, I haven't heard much, or any, talk of our long term averages being...
That's a proper outlier.
Do you know of any reason why it happened?
I remember during the heatwaves in July and August, there was a discussion, probably from the Met Office, about the jet stream being locked in place for a while, trapping warm air in heat domes in five places around the globe...
No, I don't think they are usually this wet.
What we are getting now is weather we would normally associate with the autumn, with a series of Atlantic depressions, giving us mild and wet weather.
I don't know what this means for our normal winter weather, whether it has been displaced or...