On Dec 20, 1:51*pm, "Tom Allen" wrote:
"Scott W" wrote in message

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On Dec 15, 12:24 am, Richard Dixon wrote:

Some comedic back-peddling and theft of BBC News theme here. What a
farce!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozm2wem7BMo

Richard

An interesting piece on the FT website today about how Swiss hoteliers
are struggling with the effects of a strong currency and mild (so far)
winter. Stephen Bader, a climatologist at Meteo Suisse, said his
employer had learnt to avoid medium, let alone long term, snow
forecasts.
"The weathermen do, however, provide a long range service for
temperatures through to the end of February. In the best tradition of
his breed, Mr Bader clarifies: "This winter, there are no clear
signals; everything is possible."
Which translates to me that nobody can have any clear idea of what
January and February hold. Perhaps the best you can predict is
'average'?

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But 'average' is as much a prediction as 'above average' or 'below
average' and has the same chance of being wrong.

Tom

Very true Tom; hence my "maybe"! It's perhaps best to leave any
prediction with an enormous health warning and not try to say one has
been correct, if one gets lucky and gets it spot on, for once, without
demonstrating evidence of past success.