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Great photos, i especially like the 2nd photo

It will go arseways and we will all end up being killed by a black hole

I just hope they know what they are doing.

I have a blackberry bush in my back garden,the berries are coming out now,not black yet of course just green/red in colour,but i still think its a bit early

Thanks. Im sure my luck will run out. It just seems the theme at the moment is the last few months have been not too much either side of average. Im sure i will be caught out badly some month soon though.

I think July will be below average ,so i will go for 15.6c

Is that what happened during the little ice age for example? I read before that the jet stream was stronger then it is today during the little ice ice due to a colder arctic.

I dont go into this section much cos imo all people do is go round and round in circles amoung other things. If people cant have a mature debate on the subject i think its kind of ironic,cos no wonder the planet is in the state its in,the human race just isnt mature enough to look after this beautifull planet of ours.

I think we may have a cooler June then the ones we have had recently, so i will go for June to come in around average at 14.2c

31.6c in london around the start of August

A very poor winter overall. Ther was signs of hope in late Dec for what might happen in early Jan and it did look like we were going to hit the jackpot but alas it didnt come to much. I did get a 3 hr snowfall on 3rd of Jan giving a few inches but low and behold the our old friend the Atlantic was back the next day and the snow was gone by lunchtime, i was left thinking what might have been if that cold spell had come off. The rest of the winter apart from some hard frosts in Feb was completly and utterly forgetable. ( yes some in Britain did get some good snowfall in March,but for me i got jack)

I think it will turn out to be a very average summer. The good weather we have got recently i dont trust it at all. I didnt trust the great weather we had in april last year either as i had a feeling that things would change later on and i have the same feeling now. That coupled with what Mr Data has said in the past about summers ending in "8" just makes me think we will get an average summer at best.

I cant stand humidity myself,dont like the heat too much either. Heat and humidity combined and christ does that put me in bad form. A summer like 2005 would be ok though.

Im not too sure but i dont think so.

I dont think we will see much snow over here imo. I think it will be a repeat of what happened at easter,with britain getting the snow and us getting jack <_<

I think April will be a bit below normal, my guess is 7.7c

I had a fall of snow on jan 3rd about 3 inches. Like most i had alot of rain especially during jan. I only had 5 air frosts over the winter with the coldest temp i recorded being -2.6c. Apart from jan 3rd another forgetable "winter"

I think the fact that Greece is getting all that snow and cold its like they have been stealing our winters these last number of years. Its another greek tradgedy i tell you!

Well looking at the archive i dont think it was from apolar low ,but anyway. Sorry they are clearly the wrong charts havent tried this before dont know were the hell they came from :lol:

Yes i remember the cold snap in april 1998. I think it was around april 14th or so we had about 2 inches of snow that night,it was strange waking up to a snowy scene the next morning in the middle of april. I remember for a laugh one of the radio stations here played one or two xmas songs and all. Once the april sun got at the snow that was all she wrote though, it was all gone by lunchtime but it was memorable. I think the snow came from a polar low although i may be wrong about that bit.

I think this is an interesting thread. Its strange i was just thinking today to ask what would the state of la nina be for the rest of the year. If la nina was to start weaking say in a few months time and was weak in time for next winter,would that mean that next winter could be a decent one?

i dont think this spring will be as warm as some think and i think Britain will have to wait till early may to hit the 70f mark,thus i will go for may 5th.

yes thats true, the weather doesnt really work on such basis. Hopefully next year we will get some kind of winter,but i seriously doubt it.

It seems to me that we get some kind of cold/coldish winter every 5 years since the mid 80s. The winter of 85-86 was of course a cold one, The winter of 90-91 was the next cold one,then followed by the winter 95-96. The winter of 2000-01 was a fairly cool one,then the next one the winter of 05-06 was coolish. the winters 86-87 and 96-97 would be considered average (or may coolish by recent standards) but it seems generally we get some kind of a cool winter every 5 years since the mid 80s. So going by that the next cool winter should be the winter of 2010-11.

High pressure in winter doesnt always mean frost. One thing ive noticed about these winters is that any high pressures we get are often cloudy restricting frost. when i was a kid many of the high pressures in winter were clear ones giving us hard frosts.