More fine warm weather means hay fever misery to continue

After this weekend’s brief flirtation with unsettled weather, high pressure is again re-establishing itself across the country.

Some of the storms at the weekend led to localised flooding, for example in Market Weighton yesterday, but most areas avoided any such problems.

But with the barometer rising once more, we can look forward to another week of fine and warm weather in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.

High pressure is expected to develop over Scandinavia, the resulting easterly breeze likely to bring low cloud in from the North Sea at times overnight.

Much of this low cloud though will burn back to the coast fairly quickly, leaving most areas warm and sunny by the afternoon.

Current indications suggest this mostly fine and warm weather will last across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire until the end of the week.

There-after there are some indications of a change to a slightly less settled westerly type scenario, either through the weekend, or next week.

But statistically July is certain to end up a very warm month, in what has, so far at least, been a very warm year.

Weather patterns this year have led to exceptionally high levels of pollen, which in turn have resulted in hay fever misery for millions of people.

Concentrations of grass pollen are seventeen times higher this July compared with last, and the figures for nettle pollen show concentrations are one hundred and twenty-four times higher.