There is an old phrase which sprang to mind this morning: "Rain before 7.00, sun before 11.00".

Now on the face of it, this seems quite odd. The idea that it is belting it down at 6am (it was) should lead to sunshine later makes little sense, but here we are now at just gone nine in the morning with sunshine streaming through the windows. It seems to work. Quite a few of these old sayings do work, and, though I am sure the people long ago who thought of these things did not have the detailed meteorology websites we have now, their phrases seem to be at least as accurate.

In this mornings case, the rain was caused by an occluded front moving through. As it has now passed we have a period of at least a little sunshine, though it is very windy. This is shown on the weather chart by the isbars being close together.

There are troughs about, so we will get some pretty unsettled weather too. I don't think it will be sunny for long.

Foreigners wonder why we in this country are so obsessed with the weather. The answer to them is probably because we get so much of it to talk about!