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Originally Posted by RobEvo5
Any thoughts/predictions on the longer range forecast ?. Are we going to be lucky all winter and largely continue to be mild ?. Or is there any mileage in what the Daily Express were forecasting a couple of months ago about the coldest and harsh winter in 100 years with lots of snow ?.
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Nathan Rao from the Express has pretty much copy/pasted the winter weather from the previous years for 4 years now. Goes along the lines of
" 1000000 days of snow, worst winter ever, ever "
Always gets his reports from John Madden...( not the NFL one
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Most of the decent forecasters are all saying the same thing at the moment. Its a winter of 2 halves. It will begin mild/windy with the odd very cold incursion, like we just had. Then the later half will be very cold.
A El Nino still building in strength has thrown a spanner in the works weather wise on a global scale.
The NAO ( North Atlantic Oscillation ) results are in, but the hardcore are just waiting on the OPI ( October Pattern Index ) results. This enables them to marry up the data and review it against historical data.
Short term, its just about watching what and where the jetstream does and is, and the 850 Thermal charts. The 850 is how i noticed the cold air being dragged in.