Apologies if I'm jumping the gun but Mr Bartlett has still not issued
a winter forecast. The latest date he has published over the last few
years is November 18th (in '99). He said he wasn't going to bother
this year a couple of weeks back unless anything colder than an
average winter was likely. So I guess that's it then. Boring zonality
and a pattern, God forbid, similar to the winter of 1988 / 89!!!