This covers the spring quarter (MAM).

The Azores high (1024) and Icelandic low (1005) were both
close to their long-term mean positions, but both were more
intense than usual, resulting in a stronger-than-normal westerly
flow over the Atlantic between lats 60N and 45N. However,
the mean flow becomes markedly diffluent over the British
Isles and western Europe.

This is an example of a season with a strongly positive NAO
index having very little relationship with the weather over the
UK.

Main anomaly centres:
+6mbar Russian Arctic
+4mbar WNW of the Azores
-3mbar just west of Iceland

Over the British Isles the anomaly was almost uniform,
everywhere between +1 and +2 mbar.

CET: 9.4ºC (+0.8 degC)
E&W rain: 189.4mm (98%)
E&W sun: 478.7hr (101%)

CScotland: temp +1.0, rain 104%, sun 93%
NI: temp +0.5, rain 91%, sun 106%

Philip Eden