"Damien" wrote in message
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You believed what you wanted to hear......

Winter is supposed to be COLD and SNOWY, and I believe a forecast that
was COLD and SNOWY, if with, admittedly, a slight "very" twist to its
back then but ultimately wrongly-anticipated severity.:-)

Apart from over the Scottish Highlands that is simply not true in this
country, and never has been.

If you ignored a forecast for a mild winter as a possibility simply
because that isn't what you wanted is irrational.

Winter is supposed to be COLD and SNOWY, and I believe a forecast that
was COLD and SNOWY, if with, admittedly, a slight "very" twist to its
back then but ultimately wrongly-anticipated severity.:-)

Apart from over the Scottish Highlands that is simply not true in this
country, and never has been.

Looks like Giles got it right, perhaps you should have listen to him
or
at least taken into account a number of forecasts from various
sources
before coming to any definite conclusions about the forthcoming
winter.

See my answer to this in one of my earlier replies, about Brian Gaze
and Tom Presutti having just left university at the time, plus the
above about cold and snow.:-)

You were duped into believing something that common sense should
have told you to treat with extreme caution.

Don't let you're heart rule your head
Don't get me wrong, I'd like a severe winter too, but you have to be
realistic about these things.
Irrational. If you simply search out the forecast that best suits
your
desires then you can hardly be surprised whrn it fails to come off.

Because, as Gavin Partridge says, "I believed... I TRULY believed".

I assume you will be much more sceptical of winter forecasts in the future.

THESE MY F[censored]KING DREAMS.. and I want them BACK!!!:-( :-( :-(

So far, the only person to have clarified himself is Brian Gaze of The
Weather Outlook, and I respect him for that, in spite of the above.

You do realise that certain organisations make sentational winter
forecasts every year, hoping to get the glory in the unlikely event
it comes off, with the expectation it will be forgotten about if it
doesn't.

1. Not only is that most certainly NOT true - so I am actually STICKING
UP(!) for The Weather Outlook and co. here! - , and if it were, then, I
say once again, HOW THE HELL WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW ABOUT SUCH A
THING?!!! :-( :-(

They do the media circuit every year with their extreme predictions
and gain as much publicity as possible. Then when nothing of note
happens, everybody forgets about it.......

2. Go and say this to Brian Gaze and Andrew Bond then. See what
happens.

They would deny it of course.


What, even the ones that forecast mild weather and it turns out cold?
What do you think?


You would forgive them of course so you wouldn't even be consistent
in your condemnations.

Col
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