Cheers jeff,
reference weather, just take notice of the pressure charts their the ones that count. air (in this part of the world) always circulates around a high in a clockwise direction and a low in an anticlockwise direction. Highs are a lot more settled than lows, they tend to hold their shape a lot longer and better (as well as being warmer). best is a big area high with not steep drop offs (isobar lines far apart). Isolated sudden highs and lows move around and bring wind.
Since air travels around a high in a clockwise direction then in north east the best possible position for centre of high is to be south and east of us (as it almost is now), this then brings air from the south so its warm and circulates it into us from the west so giving a flat sea.... LOL best of all possibilities. Of course if you get a low and its to the south and / or east of us it pulls in cold scandanavian air and whips up the north sea into a frenzie (ok for the shore lads mind).
I`ll listen out for you on channel 8, will probably try wrecks to about 6 mile and maybe north as far as blyth.