Perhaps its the end of the road for the competition ?

GW has dedicated a lot of time and put in a lot of effort over the years.

I would fully understand and support him if he decides to call it a day. 

 

As others have said, I'm sure someone would be willing to take it over if GW is struggling to find time.

We're now a week shy of May and we've not had the March results yet (not that I'm looking forward to tumbling down the table). This absolutely isn't a criticism of GW who, like you say, has put a huge amount into this comp over the years and we all need to thank him massively for one of the best regular features on TWO. But if it's too much on top of his normal life stuff, then perhaps its time to pass the baton.

Met Office Hadley          10.7c        Anomaly       3.1c. Provisional to 22nd.

Metcheck                       10.17c      Anomaly       2.15c

Netweather                    10.89c      Anomaly       2.8c

Peasedown St John      11.08c      Anomaly       2.82c.  

Met Office Hadley          10.8c          Anomaly       3.1c Provisional to 23rd.

Metcheck                       10.26c        Anomaly       2.24c

Netweather                    10.99c        Anomaly       2.99c

Peasedown St John      11.1c         Anomaly        2.84c.

Met Office Hadley            10.9c         Anomaly       3.2c. Provisional to 24th.

Metcheck                          10.30       Anomaly        2.88c

Netweather                       11.06c     Anomaly         2.97c

Peasedown St John         11.26c      Anomaly       3.06c. 

Met Office Hadley         10.9c.        Anomaly      3.1c. Provisional to 25th.

Metcheck                      10.30c       Anomaly      2.98c

Netweather                   11.06c       Anomaly      2.97c.

Peasedown St John     11.38c       Anomaly      3.12c.

Still no word from GW; PM'd April entry still not read...

Still no word from GW; PM'd April entry still not read...

This month's entry remains unread and it will soon be time to send in May's prediction. I'm sure everybody will understand if for whatever reason he feels he can't continue with this however I wish he would let us know what is happening with the competition. I see he has been active on other threads during April, but not on here.

GW still hasn’t opened my April entry PM either but I don’t think all is lost.  It could be that he’s busy with work and just needs some time to catch up.  I do hope he returns because it just won’t be the same without him and he’ll be sorely missed, not just for keeping track of the table but for his periodic projections.

Someone said his inbox was full at the beginning of April, so I suggest we start a May thread as usual and post our predictions to the thread.  Then at least we can carry on with this comp albeit in limited form but we will at least have a record of our predictions.

Come back GW!  

GW still hasn’t opened my April entry PM either but I don’t think all is lost.  It could be that he’s busy with work and just needs some time to catch up.  I do hope he returns because it just won’t be the same without him and he’ll be sorely missed, not just for keeping track of the table but for his periodic projections.

Someone said his inbox was full at the beginning of April, so I suggest we start a May thread as usual and post our predictions to the thread.  Then at least we can carry on with this comp albeit in limited form but we will at least have a record of our predictions.

Come back GW!  

That's a very good idea actually. No sense in clogging up his inbox with even more posts. I just wish I could post a revised prediction for April on this thread :)

Met Office Hadley   11.0c.      Anomaly   3.2c. Provisional to 26th

Metcheck                10.54c     Anomaly    2.52c

Netweather             11.12c     Anomaly    3.03c 

Peasedown St John 11.43c.  Anomaly   3.23c.        

Met Office Hadley         11.0c.      Anomaly       3.1c. Provisional to 28th.

Metcheck                      10.57c     Anomaly       2.51c

Netweather                   11.13c     Anomaly       3.04c.

Peasedown St John     11.51c      Anomaly       3.25c.   

Met Office Hadley         11.0c.      Anomaly       3.1c. Provisional to 28th.

Metcheck                      10.57c     Anomaly       2.51c

Netweather                   11.13c     Anomaly       3.04c.

Peasedown St John     11.51c      Anomaly       3.25c.   

Is that provisional to 27th Art?

Wow...it looks like its going to finish in the high 10's !

Bang in line with my prediction of 10.9c ! 

It’s a little worrying that we’ve heard nothing from GW and I really am hoping it’s because he’s busy with work and not because he’s ill.  Those are the only reasons he’s been absent in the past.  I think if he’d just wanted to give up the CET threads, he’d have said so and I’m still hopeful he’ll carry on with them when he’s able.

It would be a shame for us not to carry on, even if in a scaled down form.  I wouldn’t want to take on the task of analising the entries because it’s a mammoth task and I don’t have the knowledge to do the temperature analysis and forecasts that GW does.  However, there’s nothing to stop us posting our predictions and declaring monthly winners.  It’s not quite the same but it’s the best I can suggest.  

On a previous thread, GW posted the following for historical May CET:

1971-2000 11.3C (30 years)

1981-2010 11.7C (30 years)

1998-2017 12.1C (last 20 years)

I will start a May thread and copy this post to it. 

Thank you for starting off the thread for May. Caz.

 Still on April  Met Office Hadley  10.9c.  Anomaly 3.0c. Provisional to 28th.

Met Check                   10.40c        Anomaly    2.38c

Netweather                 11.04c        Anomaly    2.95c

Peasedown St John     11.41c      Anomaly     3.15c.             

I've updated the March CET thread with the competition's results to that date.

This may not be up to GW's standards,as its just from an Excel file, but is my best effort at keeping the competition ticking over.

If there are any issues with your own data let me know.

Also I do not know if the final March figure of 6.7 is correct or whether there is a two decimal place value. 

 

I've updated the March CET thread with the competition's results to that date.

This may not be up to GW's standards,as its just from an Excel file, but is my best effort at keeping the competition ticking over.

If there are any issues with your own data let me know.

Also I do not know if the final March figure of 6.7 is correct or whether there is a two decimal place value. 

March was bang on 6.70C 

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/cet_mean_2020

Hi sorry everyone I have not got round to keeping things up to date this month. Too many other things to focus on. I will get everything up to date, including April results, this weekend. My inbox has plenty of space so you can post you predictions as usual.

Hi sorry everyone I have not got round to keeping things up to date this month. Too many other things to focus on. I will get everything up to date, including April results, this weekend. My inbox has plenty of space so you can post you predictions as usual.

Thanks GW, glad you're OK.

Will send prediction to you as normal.