On Saturday, November 2, 2013 11:00:47 AM UTC, John Hall wrote:
In article ,

Jim Cannon writes:

On Monday, October 21, 2013 4:04:10 PM UTC+1, Jim Cannon wrote:

The 90s have returned this year. Weeks and weeks of a low over

Iceland - powerful Azores high ridging into central Europe. My

old gaffer nearly had a coronary when he saw the latest long

range charts. He keeps having to redraw them as his tears are

making all the isobars run. Ah well, lets hope next summers

nice...



Met Office have written it off, too. As per my thoughts weeks ago -

makes you wonder what took them so long - farting around with

the St Jude stuff, I s'pose



http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pd...s-temp-NDJ.pdf



Thanks for the link. "Written it off" is a little strong. After all, the

chance of the winter being cold (if one equates being in the coldest 20%

to cold) is given as 15%. And the period covered does not include

February.

--

John Hall "He crams with cans of poisoned meat

The subjects of the King,

And when they die by thousands G.K.Chesterton:

Why, he laughs like anything." from "Song Against Grocers"

These charts from the Met Office seem to show no strong bias to either cold or mild throughout the winter
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research...glob-seas-prob