Back In The Autumn The Daily Express came out with a glaring heading that this winter will be the coldest in a 100 years with major snow falls and severe cold lasting for weeks. Even the more modest forcast such as net weather and The Weather Out Look all pointed to a colder and average winter.

Well We are now 2 months into this winter and I can tell you here and now that all these long range forcasts that had forcast cold have been 100% Wrong.  The CET means for December is 6.3 C and January 5.7 which is well above average and now it looks like that this winter will be one of the warmest on record.  With a CET mean between 5 and 6 Degrees Celsius likerly.  Further more this winter there has not been a single snowfall or snow covering in London and the South East and there been an amazing lack of air frost as well so far with no widespread  severe frosts below -2 C at all in London and the south east.

Actually, when you think about it, the Express ALMOST had it right - only by about 3000 or 4000 miles to the west.   

But yes, the whole point of them headlines was about us here in the UK expecting that kind of winter and it is turning out to be a major fail on their part.

The metoffice did pretty well though, their original forecast was slightly off, but their early december update suggested a mild wet January.

Don't know about the last point. Some of the winters before the 20th centuary have much colder CETs than 47 or 63. In particular the mid to late 1700s. 

No point giving a joke paper like the Express anymore thought. Of course, the problem is they blame the failed forecast on the Weathermen, and their thick readers believe it

Just wait,it won`t be long before the express plaster something like `Britain to bake in hottest summer ever with temps of 40c+

an effing joke of a paper!!

yeah, such a cold winter that I have had ONE airfrost (-0.2c) and 2.3 frost hours.....