If we do see a return to Westerlies, I think we will be in for an
awful summer due to the relatively low sea surface temperatures
currently around our shores for the time of year.

However, if we don't see a return to westerlies (usually 2 in every 7
years) then we could see this summer going the same way as the famous
summer of 1976, whereby we have Northern blocking synoptics.

I gut feeling is that the westerlies will return, and we will have a
poor summer, so make the most of this weekend.

On a different note I was talking to friends that are visiting from
Turkey, and they say that summer there has arrived very late this
year.