The weather across the UK for the past several weeks has been incredibly dry and with no meaningful rain to come in the forecast next week and possibly beyond, we will hit drought levels with bans being imposed before summer officially starts. Is the stratosphere to blame? The question will be for many, why has this dry spell occurred? Well in this article I will try and answer that with in depth data and re-analysis. Cast your minds back to early March, where we had a big warming in stratosphere above the Polar region. This eventually caused a sudden stratospheric warming. What caused this warming event? Well after looking through various sets of data, the likely cause was the Madden-Julian …