WE Brits probably talk more about the weather than any other nation in the world.

There’s a very good reason for that, of course – we get so much of it.

Forecasters on TV 24-hour news channels wave hands across huge countries and say things like: “Tomorrow will be warm and dry across most of India”.

Here we have a multitude of microclimates every one hundred miles!

Over the past month, for example, while East Lancashire had 119 millimetres of rain, many parts of the county are at near drought conditions with less than a tenth of that.

Here, we all know that what is happening with the weather in Burnley can often be very different to Blackburn.

But that is what makes this area, and this country in general, such a special place.

This has been a year of freezing temperatures, huge downpours, snow, sun, hail and now high winds.

And that’s just in Accy!