Personally, this bloke makes me cringe.
"I was a lonely teenage broncing buck, a line from that song if you have
ever heard it, when I first heard the song. And as we end January and head
into February the arctic barbarian is at the gate. For western Europe a full
scale assault from the east is still 10 days away. I believe that any
westward movement of what is a nasty air mass over Russia will only make it
to Germany and not get over the Alps. This is because we are still not ready
to go to the negative NAO. But be forewarned, a February that could bring
back memories of last February may be on the way. "

His English is appalling, even for an American journalist. His geography
isn't too hot either. Where are the particular set of Alps that are between
Russia and most of Western Europe? It's always the charlatan's "just over 10
days" time as well. This has two advantages. No one remembers what you said
in 10 days time and secondly there aren't many charts available after that
for anyone to challenge the theory. Memories of February - be
forewarned -well that's scary, with temperatures above freezing and no snow
settling. (East Kent excepted). There will no doubt be a cold snap at some
point this winter, possibly in two weeks time and I can't wait for everyone
to tell me how it was colder than average. The reality is that so far in
most of the South East and East Anglia (and most likely lots of the rest of
the country - except Dartmoor ;-) ) it has been the most boring, dull,
non-extreme winter for several years.
It will take something very special now to change my view but I would still
prefer to end up eating humble pie rather than American Pie!

Dave

"Keith (Southend)G" wrote in message
oups.com...
http://ukie.accuweather.com/adcbin/ukie/ukie_joe_b.asp

"February made me shiver, With each paper I'd deliver, "

Interesting reading.

Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net