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Shaun Pudwell writes:
I just wonder what the media will say when we actually do get some severe
winter weather.
I'd say the MO forecast so far has been way off the mark, especially in the
South where it's been quite a mild January and was exceptionally mild in
December. I really don't think using the CET in a forecast is the right
thing to do.

I don't understand your last sentence. Where did the Met Office use the
CET in a forecast? Or do you mean using it to evaluate a forecast? If
the forecast is for England then it seems a reasonable thing to do so to
me.

Also I don't see why you think that December was exceptionally mild in
the south. Philip Eden says in his review of the month at
http://www.climate-uk.com/monthly/0512.htm : "Mean monthly temperature
was close to the long-term average in most parts of the UK - slightly
above in Scotland and Northern Ireland, slightly below in southern
England where it was the coldest December for four years."
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