Thanks Bookworm and Chris.
I'm generally interested in weather from an airline perspective, since i'm a bad-flying SLF and a SITT (Speccy I.T. Tw@t), this combination means I have a thirst for knowledge in order not to be caught out by turbulence (which I hate with a passion).
Hence the question (which if we expand it a bit more) is of how to understand whether i'm likely to have a decent flight or not, from the weather reports available.
(and also as a side-note, how to read those weather reports the pilots post here which look like orders at a fast food restaurant for the uninitiated!)