Hi Clyve,

I was looking at that myself earlier today and noticed it had been dawdling along down there over the last week. There's a whole 'queue' of polar front depressions lined up but this high has decided to mount a left turn detour sign (gosh the Labor Party's left wing must be in the ascendancy!). I thought I also noticed a suspiciously similar but much less intrusive feature at similar latitudes south of the African continent.

This seems to me to be not unusual for June, to have the polar high bulging north in our longitudes. I often wonder if it has to do with the winter solstice...the air down there is so cold it starts to bubble north, more or less.