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I left this comment on the Word Press article itself:

Languishing cyclonic weather jolt gives extra know-how to WeatherAction forecasts and show a foretaste of the 'Little Ice Age'weather patterns to come.

John, simply brill! - and not because I am quoted!
Readers might like to know that despite our well praised forecast through Easter this April later turned wet when we didn't expect it. We have now got a handle on why and this is explained in a news statement we issued:

http://www.weatheraction.com/displayarticle.asp?a=450&c=5

(NB a longer version went to subscribers).

These findings INCREASE our confidence of an exceptionally cold May in Eastern parts and now we have the exciting observations that this weather pattern of 'languishing cyclonic conditions' is like what was understood to have been common in Spring weather during the 'Maunder Minimum' of solar activity aka The Little Ice Age - see Readers discussion Peter Harrison and me via same link.

Thanks Piers

The BBC breakfast news on BBC1 this morning ran a story about how low the water is is certain reservoirs, suggesting they may have ssen this story on Climate Realists and are trying very hard to counter it.

BBC ran this story on the web yesterday: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17822482

Then ran this story on the web today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17836246

- On that first BBC story page check the box marked Related Stories "Drought may last until Christmas: Environment Agency" 16 April 2012 - interesting the clairvoyant skills of the Environment Agency when it's sister department the Met Office gave up the more than 3 month long range forecasting 2 years ago on account of they kept getting it wrong.

- BTW we live in an area which has been OFFICIALLY in DROUGHT for the last few months, yet the water table is definitely high, as all the old quarries have been full of water all winter, and for more than the last week the farm tracks have had standing water on them. No one has to dammed drainage dikes to stop water escaping into the river & estuary etc. as it's totally unnecessary.

Its the wettest drought since records began!

My area from the local weather records I've gathered has certainly been below average in rainfall despite periodic flooding, however. As soon as I heard the warnings of hosepipe bans and the 'drought till xmas' I knew it would rain as last time they made the announcement (early summer?) there was an above average downpour - are they doing rain dances when they make these announcements? Basic understanding of weather (based on following it through my life) tells me that these periods of drought are followed by deluge (rather than easing out of a drought). What is most stupid and has been repeated by everyone I spoke to is this 'wrong kind of rain' rubbish. Britain's rainfall varies as is obvious from the records kept since the 1880's. It happens again and again, so that the water companies cannot deal with this shows how inept they are and how geared they are to profit not service. I have lived in the monsoon region and they cope with no rain then a total deluge which makes our 'rain' the past day or so nothing more than a shower. If they can cope why cannot we? Surely we should be looking to conserve our water when it comes rather than looking for excuses. Storm drain work - we get enough downpours in the south to warrant it. Also I cannot recount how many times I have seen broken pipes leaking water. The last decade (barely two years ago) was the wettest on record yet we have another supposed drought? Did we have unprecedented usage all of a sudden? This reeks of profit making and treating symptoms not the causes. If they want us to be less profligate with our usage education is the way not hosepipe bans when we get a dry and predictable couple of months. I do wonder if the devotion to the sham CO2 theory is behind this idiocy? Instead of teaching us to conserve water and, for example, leave buckets out to water plants (far better than tap water by any stretch) instead we are told cO2 is going to make everything extreme (which is what low solar activity does hmm). Apparently the only thing we can do is try and sort out our carbon footprint rather than dealing with the here and now. Can we actually enjoy the wonders of our weather (wet and all) rather than fearing it's all our bloody fault! Guilt is what much of religious control mechanisms were built upon (not spirituality I might add).

FLOODS are HERE
- Me 6 weeks ago "drought talk is ridiculous in March. This is England so the chances or rain are much higher than dry. Drought in the summer is possible, but even then it's only a 1 in 30 chance."
- Now in April still no days without rain & FLOODS are HERE in the area just north of our county. They were declared to be in drought 3 weeks ago despite the fact that the Yorkshire region does have an interconnecting water ring main & so the water supply can't dry up. Today on the TV we can see the River Derwent overflowing at Stamford Bridge so that there is water 1 foot deep in the pub & some peoples houses. Indeed the Environment Agency website says that inland flooding is expected in 9 places today & possible in a further 33 http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/floods/31618.aspxm
- 2 Weather stations within my area are almost certain to break the April rainfall record since they are 3mm below it & storms are expected on Sunday.
- PR twisting of science creates an upside down world.. so when authorities show certainty of one thing the truth often turns out to be almost entirely the opposite ... "but trust us on Climate Change", they say ..Yeah right

Aha I workeed out the reason for the strange drought narrative .. turns out what they say applies to one particular SPECIAL TYPE OF RIVER. They are shown the dry River Pang which is spring-fed chalk stream & they are extrapolating that as if it applies to all rivers. I can see what they are doing a little spin to keep people relaxing too much about drought grows like in a game of Chinese whispers to become a big lie. There's a parallel with their Climate Change talk they've been doing the for years.

- Their script says : "this record rainfall makes no difference to the 'drought' since the watertable needs to catchup from 2 years of lower than normal rainfall, this rain just evaporates as the ground is too hard to aborb it, what counts is autumn & early winter rain." All that is complete BS & can be taken apart bit by bit; for a start the temperature is much lower than normal & it rains at night so that water won't be evaporating.... So what are they on about ? : AHA I WORKED IT OUT on Tuesday evening on Radio 4 the reporter said !"Here I am at the River Pang , in Berkshire & as we can see it's still dried up the drought is nowhere near ending.

- WTF most rivers are near overflowing & she manages to find one of the extremely few dry ones . I checked the River Pang is not a normal river. Most say 80-99% of rivers get their water from rainwater flowing off the land, the River Pang is different it is a The spring-fed chalk stream : it gets it's water from the watertable spreading up through chalk and when I check the info
http://hampsteadnorreys.org.uk/Environment/RiverPang.html for it all those special conditions the media churn-out apply to it. It's says stuff like "The River Pang is a chalk stream that starts north of the village, the exact starting ... are mainly replenished by rain that falls during the Autumn and early Winter"

- actually http://www.oxfordshiregt.org/chalk_facts/Chalk%20links%20and%20groundwater%5B1%5D.pdf an academic paper says Spring rain does make a difference
"The water table varies in height throughout the year,
falling during the summer and autumn months and
recovering (due to recharge by rainfall) during the winter
and spring months, with the largest seasonal variations
observed away from the rivers. In a well at Rockley in
Wiltshire, the water table varies annually from 2 to 18
metres below the surface." .. Look at that truely massive variation during even normal years

.. BTW Yes it's easy to show the River Pang dry as it's a very shallow river it's only 20cm deep normally & 35cm is considered a flood http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/floods/riverlevels/136495.aspx?stationId=7105 environments Agencies own graphs for River Pang. River Pang has been Thames Water's special project for years as it keeps flooding & damaging property... so they have probably been taking steps to keep it low.
- I just read that first page it even says the River Pang has a strange pattern & sometimes dries up randomly in normal years.

"His WeatherAction forecasts are consistently waterproof showing “85 percent accuracy” months ahead, as affirmed by peer-reviewed scientific studies."

I seem to have missed these studies, could you provide a link please?