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The Daily Express has changed its daily theme from Diana, Princess of Wales (see post dated 8/3/07) to the weather.  It regularly runs front page stories of how we can expect things like heatwaves. hurricanes and floods - always extreme of course. They're sort of "man bites dog" stories.  The latest is that we're in for three months of extremely cold weather and "one of the worst [winters] in history".  So what's the reality?  The Met Office will tell you that forecasting the weather with any degree of accuracy is only possible for 3-5 days in advance, and they would hesitate to even forecast "trends" for more than the next 30 days.  So what are they saying? December will probably be "fairly normal" and for winter as a whole, temperatures are more likely to be below-average than above-average.  So don't get your knickers in a twist!