I was talking to my meteorology undergraduate students last week on the subject of air masses and the extreme conditions in Finland were a perfect focus for the debate. However, my daughter has also begun to talk about which direction the smoke is blowing in from some local chimneys. She is now colouring in a 'Weather Tree' where each leaf represents the weather conditions each day on our bicycle journey. At the end of the year we can see 'at a glance' how variable the weather is at any particular time. It shows that the High Pressure System which the whole of the UK is presently experiencing is set to remain dominant over the next two days, although its centre will slip a little further south allowing the pressure gradient to intensify somewhat over northern Britain.
Highs really are variable.
Well, winter is getting on and Southern Britain is yet to see a significant dose of snow.