On 18/12/16 13:58, Col wrote:
On 09/12/2016 23:12, Eskimo Will wrote:

"Graham" wrote in message
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Up to 13c today felt quite warm despite the lack of sunshine.
Noticed as I passed the newspaper stand the clowns who were predicting
3 months of snow & ice are now going for a hot Christmas day, mind you
they do have more chance of getting that one right


No they don't. The trend is for it to get substantially colder after
16th.

And that hasn't happened, has it?
Hopecasting as usual!


The SST anomalies still point to a preponderance of cyclonic westerlies
for the UK so another mild winter seems most likely. The pattern looks a
bit more favourable for more meridional patterns than in recent years
but a north-westerly reaching us from the East Greenland Sea would not
be anywhere near as cold as it was fifty years ago when there was at
least twice as much ice there as there is now.

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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks. [Retd meteorologist/programmer]
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would
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