Summer blues - or reds?

Oh no - not another forecast of a "barbecue summer". Except that this one doesn't come from the Met Office, who notoriously made that prediction for last summer, but from a small private concern who claim to have correctly forecast seasonal weather trends since it was formed in 2006. Such a short track record - however impressive - may simply be down to luck, but they are confidently forecasting that summer temperatures will be significantly above average, and that the beginning of August in particular will be really hot. We shall see.