"weather man" wrote in message
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To be honest Keith, I believe that you cannot compare the stats of any
Summer / Autumn to get a clue what the coming winter will be like.

I do not wish to belittle other more experienced posters to this
newsgroup
in what I say, but there are many that believe that because we have
seen an
October which has generally been very cool, There will be a cold
Winter.


The mean temperature up to the 18th October so far is 0.9°C above the
1971 to 2000 Rothamsted long term average (5 miles to the north of me).
It will be lower now but it has not been a cool month here.

Alan Gardiner
Chiswell Green, St Albans
N51:44 W00:22
101m ASL