On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 20:34:43 UTC, dawlish wrote:
Some hints at mid-Atlantic ridging, which could indicate a colder end to the month on the gfs and ECM. Nothing approaching 80% certain, but the hints are there.

I saw this and though of you:
There was a long history of animosity between Preece and Heaviside. Heaviside considered Preece to be mathematically incompetent; an assessment supported by the biographer Paul J. Nahin: "Preece was a powerful government official, enormously ambitious, and in some remarkable ways, an utter blockhead.."

Not that I think you are a powerful government official of course.