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strapline: The likelihood of El Niño easing by monsoon time has risen. With luck, rainfall will relieve inflationary pressures and help our central bank achieve the price stability it’s aiming for.
they are indicating further unsettled weather with a strong jetstream sweeping across the atlantic, pointing right at us. and further low pressures are expected to swing our way. here is the more recent satellite picture, with low pressure just to the north west of the british isles, another one here, and there are further weather systems developing just off the coast of canada. and here is thejetstream over the next few days. it is sweeping right across the atlantic and broadly speaking, this is a schematic here, it does separate that cold air from the northern climes, from the warm air across the south. and it is this temperature gradient, the difference that drives this jetstream, and of course the jetstream sweeps in weather systems, develops these low pressures, and this is the rainfall pattern, notjust across the uk but indeed europe. you can see how dry and sunny the weather is across the south, whereas here in central and northern parts of europe, we have the rain. now wome of
across the south. and it s this temperature gradient, the difference, that drives this jet stream and, of course, the jet stream sweeps in weather systems, develops these low pressures and this is the rainfall pattern, notjust across the uk but, indeed, europe. you can see how dry and sunny the weather is across the south whereas here, in central and northern parts of europe, we have the rain. now, some of that rainfall here will be from thunderstorms. but across our neck of the woods, it will be from weather systems sweeping our way, and we have had plenty of those. look at the rainfall until about 27july. in northern ireland, we ve had had 18a% of the average. in england, about 163%. but from one region to another, that actually varies greatly. in the north west of the country, it has been even wetter than that. let s look at the weather forecast, then, for the weekend. so, sunny spells and scattered showers. so, here is that area of low pressure sweeping across the uk. that also
across the atlantic, pointing right at us. and further low pressures are expected to swing our way. and here is the more recent satellite picture with low pressure just to the north west of the british isles, another one here. and there are further weather systems developing just off the coast of canada. and here is thatjet stream over the next few days. so it s sweeping right across the atlantic. and broadly speaking, this is a schematic here. it does separate that colder air from the northern climes, from the warmer air across the south. and it s this temperature gradient, the difference that drives this jet stream. and of course, the jet stream sweeps in weather systems, develops these low pressures. and this is the rainfall pattern, notjust across the uk but indeed europe. you can see how dry and sunny the weather is across the south, whereas here in central and northern parts of europe, we have the rain. now, some of that rainfall here will be from thunderstorms. but across our ne