I agree with Paul's comment, it annoys me as well

I know winter isn't over yet, and there is still time for a so called
'severe' cold spell

But those headlines last October are looking very silly at the moment

Maybe some more will be said on the subject in around a month's time,
and let's hope the same does not happen again in October 2005.

The message coming from some quarters is the same cry of doom-mongering
every single autumn, that the coming winter will be very severe. It's
getting a bit tedious

The Uk is perhaps overdue a cold and snowy winter, so some people have
realised this, they forecast it to happen every year, knowing that one
year it WILL happen. Then they can sit back and take the credit.
It's all a bit obvious