Not liking the look of the end of the month according to recent models
(GFS and ECM) - the former seems to suggest a dire non-cold cyclonic
nightmare for all parts: not particularly mild, it's true, but not
cold enough for snow or settled enough for frost either. Precisely the
sort of weather that makes an average northwestern European early
winter a trial in many years...

ECM only goes out to Christmas Day but seems to hint on the same sort
of thing starting to happen then. Then there's Joe B's comments (I
don't particularly agree with his take on GW, but he does seem to get
these sorts of medium term forecasts right). However the Met Office is
still going with cold weather out to the end.

So any hope for the end of the month or is it all over for the moment
after Christmas Day, albeit with the possibility of a return in the
new year?

Nick