I'll hold my hands up, don't have a clue how to read a weather map, but the model thread is ridiculous. You can have booms, bins, 2010s/1947 comparisons and its just stupid. You get given a date of when something might happen and then all knowledge of that date is denied with a new date given to which they say it was always that date anyway. There is some knowledgeable posters in there, but the vast majority are just posting for the sake of it.
In December, they were talking about how January was going to turn out. Living in the North East of England, I've not seen a flake of snow and hardly a frost in January yet and it won't be till the 14th till it gets colder, which while things can change, looks watered down to less than a week of cold and back milder again till they say February, that's not how January was painted to be by them.