well I think we better get used to it ... its all to do with the jet stream ..the weather above the jet stream is always bad & below the jet stream its always good ...well the bad news is the jet stream this year is the lowest its been for years and only the far south of France & the far south of Spain [ that are below the jet stream ] are getting good weather ... and my bike jacket has just started to leak in ...bugger ...
You are right doboy, I've been following the shenanigans of the jetstream for a few years now, especially the part that affects these islands and that land over there, wossit called? oh, europe! Got me right into metereology it did, so that I started talking on about 'Hadley cells' and 'katabatic winds' in the pub and losing friends
. I even got a proper electronic weather-station to put on top of the shed, started collecting rainfall, wind-speeds etc
to go with my more traditional dried fir-cones and dangling sea-weed prediction indicators.
But the jetstream (only discovered in the 20th c) is a sod this year...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/18748701