The early days of the year were characterised by torrential downpours in certain areas that inevitably led to speculation that this was the fabled Climate Change at work?.
But was this really the reason? Were abnormal carbon dioxide levels at play or was this something that could be easily explained in some other way?
As it happens there was a more than adequate answer to this and it did not involve fanciful theories operating without a credible shred of proof.
Quite simply this latest outbreak of inclement weather involved nothing but a bizarre twisting of the jet streams above Britain (see pic below) to produce an elongated wind pattern that shows the jet stream swerving from a northerly flow to a sudden turn over Spain directing warmer air towards the British Isles that resulted in the significant downpours that were witnessed there.
