The Met Office will not be issuing an advance forecast for winter 10/11.Instead they will be giving a 30 day outlook at the end of the previous month.
Its Two Weather Outlook posters chance to demonstrate their skills by putting figures to their words for the winter ahead.Will we be getting three cold winters in a row?Or will the strong La Nina dash those hopes.
Using Phillip Eden's figures the monthly mean CET for Dec is 5.1,for Jan 4.2 and for Feb 4.2 giving a winter average of 4.5C.
Avearge Rainfall figures for Dec are 100.6mm,for Jan 93.8, for Feb 66.0 giving a winter total of 260.4.
To enter you have to supply your forecast winter CET,and your forecast rainfall total.Entries to be in by November 30th.
I'll kick off with winter mean CET 3.5,winter rain total 230mm.
roger63
Winchester