The Museum of London is currently displaying an exhibition about the changing nature of the capital’s climate over the last 2000 years. Weather Permitting: London’s Changing Climate uses a colourful timeline filled with intriguing objects and quirky facts alongside stunning paintings to explore the changeable weather of the past and peer into the unpredictable weather of the future.

I came across an old (2005) article by Jeremy Clarkson on global warming, climate change and general thoughts on the weather. Famously cantankerous, contrary and controversial often amusing, and although it seems he sometimes writes deliberately to shock, he does actually make some quite good points.

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With March rapidly approaching I suppose we are officially in the springtime, a season that is inherently positive after the weariness of winter. Thomas Hardy seems to think so anyway:

In the quake of the earthquake the Great British public have been quick to share their impressions of this unusual event on various newsites and forums around the web. Perhaps predictably the nation has briefly underweant a state of collective panic, with many postings explaining the terror of the tremors.

On today's BBC TV weather forecast Suzanne Charlton several times told us that there would be "gusts of wind". What else could they have been of? Also, like many of her forecaster colleagues, she apparently cannot resist talking about rain "moving its way". Why can it not simply move?