The technobabble that goes with it, there's an expert on another forum as regards to this.

I know it's comparing freshwater to seawater, but this pic is of Derwentwater in Jan 2010:

CFS's 500mb anomaly on the 00z is looking very interesting today - for December:

I've bolded the key word

Changes daily . lets look tomorrow 

I notice Leon Brown was quoted about the possibility of a colder than average winter. He's a highly respected meteorologist, however, a) I'm not sure of the full context of what was said b) no one is consistently getting UK / W European lrfs right IMHO

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-weather-bitter-chill-hits-23052147

If its from a tabloid, theres a very high chance of context issues and misquotes

Still - seems a fairly strong claim

Perhaps he's gone 'full *****C' (or who was that other charlatan that got stroppy with Brian about having the mick taken on here? was his methods something about the solar max and min? he'd use it to pinpoint dramatic weather events to a day, about 2 months in advance. aaarrrggghhh, what was his name?)

This is worth keeping an eye on, Baltic Ice, as winter progresses:-

On average, ice covers an area of some 170 000 km², which stands for 40 % of the total Baltic Sea area (422 000 km², including Kattegatt and Skagerrak). The minimum ice extent has been on winter 2020 when there was only 37 000 km² ice in maximum.

2020 winter was the lowest on record. 

https://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/ice-season-in-the-baltic-sea

Is this a prediction then or if not based on what!? Models?

A newspaper on weather steroids... I see it says England could drop to 4c? and Edinburgh to 0c it does not say if this is during the day or night.

Sounds pretty average to me.

There was ice covering most of Bosham Creek in Chichester Harbour in 2001 (or was it 2000?) but scarcely thick enough for a duck to walk on.

Slightly off-topic but told to me by a colleague when I worked in Manchester: his father lived in Keswick and in the 1930s Derwentwater had been frozen for several weeks, so his father went out for a regular evening skate after supper. As the freeze went on, the level of the water had dropped and there was a gap between the water and the ice sheet on top, with the sheet being supported by pillars of ice. That evening his father went out as usual, with s southerly wind getting up, and there was suddenly a cracking and groaning sound. He got off the ice quickly, and fortunately so - the wind ha got into the space under the ice and within half an hour the ice covering the whole lake had broken up into smallish floating patches of ice, not big enough to support a man.

What makes you think that? 🤔

I think that occasional blocking highs over Scandinavia, alongside mid-Atlantic high pressure systems, will drive low pressure systems south/south east into the Mediterranean region. Sometimes they might head straight for the Balkan regions, on other occasions they will take an easterly track through the Med from Spain to Turkey. For any of these situations, cold continental air is likely to be drawn down on their western flanks from the north east across Greece, Turkey and the Balkan states.

I'm sure between these there will be still be plenty of mild spells but it wouldn't surprise me if they see quite frequent snow events in that region. At least in the first part of the winter.