Here's hoping

According to a Guardian newspaper article from September the 1st, we might be in for a snowy, cold winter.
In the piece entitled ‘Is summer really over?’ a long-range forecaster named Harry Kershaw, using a technique known as simililarity forecasting, has said that 2008’s weather patterns are following those of 1962, which entailed a wet September and a briefly fine October, before descending into a bitter cold winter throughout the start of 1963. So cold in fact, that it became known as The Big Freeze of 1963, and according to the national CET records - which record temperatures going back to 1659 - was only beaten by the winter of 1739-40.

In 1963 the thermometre dropped to -16C, which led to the sea freezing to a distance of 1 mile from Herne Bay, the Thames was briefly turned into a skating rink, and snow settled on much of the country from January until March, with many parts of the country reporting drifts of up to 6 metres.

Cam't be bad.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/sep/01/weather