"Alan Gardiner" wrote in message
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"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


... and here in Bracknell, the first half of the month was running at
least 1.0degC above average, with a short period +1.6degC (using eLTA
data); with the steady decline in both maxima and minima over past days,
we are approaching 'average' for the month overall.

Martin.
--
Martin Rowley: data via:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.weather/metindex.htm
Bracknell (Wooden Hill/Great Hollands), Berkshire.
NGR: SU 854 667
Lat: 51DEG23MIN30SEC(N); Long: 00DEG46MIN28SEC(W)
Height(amsl): 80 metres (262 feet)