One of the fascinating features of life in the UK is the weather! We have definite seasons; Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, but the seasons do not have seasonal weather patterns. Snow in summer, for instance, is not a novel situation. Sports enthusiasts recollect the county cricket match between Derbyshire and Lancashire in June 1975, which was called off due to snow . And consider this newspaper headline in July 2014,'Crazy summer weather !People in Poole had to swap their s

Some questions need careful answers. Consider this one. 'Are August wash outs the new norm?!' Dry, sunny Augusts could be thought of as out of character because they seem to happen less! August was a wet month with rainfall above average - and temperatures below normal. 100 years ago, in 1917, the rains in August turned the battlefields of Passchendaele into a sea of mud and water: the media have recently represented the atrocious catastrophe of that event in the first world