Wind direction has certainly been the key over the last week or so and this week is pretty much a carbon copy, until at least the second part of the week. Those of you in the west have been lucky to experience much better conditions whilst us in the east have had to endure cooler temperatures and more in the way of cloud cover. Over the last 7 days or so we've had a very brisk east to north-east wind with cooler upper air across the UK, more so the eastern half of the United Kingdom. As a result