Bad weather in Europe

Following the heavy rainfall in the UK, the focus is now shifting to continental Europe, where the Dutch Met Office is warning of force 10 winds along the north coast of the country. The storm extends east, as the German weather office has a similar warning out for the entire northern coast of Germany as the depression that has brought all the havoc moves across the German Bight. Denmark escapes the storms for today, according to forecaster DMI, as the low pressure system moves right across the country.

The spell of unseasonable weather is attributed by meteorologists (I'm not one) to a sluggish jetstream. This is normally aligned west to east from Newfoundland across to Iceland or Scotland and on to Scandinavia. At the moment, it is going across in giant loops, liked a kinked cable, leaving any weather trapped in situ for days. Nice if you have a high pressure system bringing sunny and warm weather, horrible, if it's low pressure with wind and rain.