On Sunday, 18 December 2016 17:34:05 UTC, Chris Smith wrote:
ECMWF is bigging up zonality. Yay! Zonal Christmas - must be, oh - almost year since we had one of those.

I'm putting my money on a cold New Year.

I did think that was on the cards from 10 days out, not 7! Good luck with the cold New Year. It will get cold at some time this winter and there will be snow for most. Happy with that forecast?