"Scott W" wrote in message
oups.com...
Excuse my ignorance and weakness of having looked at "The Weather
Outlook" but has anyone heard of the following fact that I read on
TWO...

"Although the days are have now been lengthening for a while, the
weather tends to lag behind by about one month, meaning that on
average
the coldest winter in the UK can be expected during the second half of
January and the first half of February."


This tends to come up every year about this time: see this graph

http://www.metoffice.com/research/ha..._act_graph.gif

which shows the pronounced 'dip' during February.

And a bit more here ...

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.w...ar.htm#Coldest

Martin.


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