The UK is enjoying a very nice spell of anticyclonic at the moment.
There are no severe storms elsewhere in the northern hemisphere to
account for it and apart from some very minor cramps yesterday I don't
have any twinges.

Interesting.

The Smithsonian updater for the volcanoes archive seems to be busted.
I got the latest release by fiddling with the last three digits on
this link:
http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports/us...rweek=20080505

Apparently it doesn't matter what day you put on as long as it falls
in the week you want.

That N Atlantic low is now over 1000 mb and sending a ridge out
towards Greenland. Could it actually do what I said it was going to do
all those yonks ago?

If so, watch out Xinjiang.