Steve Schulin wrote:
June 10, 2005

News Release

Weather Action Long Range Forecasters say:
NO SUPERHEATWAVES THIS SUMMER
& 'This lousy weekend - We told you so!

There will be NO SUPERHEATWAVES in Britain this summer announced Weather
Action Long range forecasters this morning in a forthright contradiction
of claims from other quarters publicised last month. "There will be
hotspells - and we know when - but none of them will be long enough to
be record-breakers. Nowhere will reach 101 degF" said Piers Corbyn
astrophysicist of Weather Action. "I am ready to bet with anyone on
this", he said

It would be a pretty safe bet. As best I can find on short notice,
before the 2003 heat wave the record highest temperature in the UK was
37.1 degC (that's 98.2 degF) at Cheltenham on 3 August 1990, per
http://www.metoffice.com/climate/uk/...3maxtemps.html .
According to the same source the highest temperature during the 2003
heat wave was only 38.5 degC (101.3 degF), barely above the threshold
for Corbyn's wager.

Corbyn also could predict no hurricanes in Siberia, no blizzards in
Fiji, etc. etc.