Guest post by Steven Goddard

The UK Met Office

forecast

last Autumn “

the coming winter suggests it is, once again, likely to be milder than average.

” We have now passed the 2/3 mark of the meteorological winter, and it is time for another report card to send home. Yesterday’s press

release

was titled “Wintry start to February” which stated “

So far, the UK winter has been the coldest for over a decade” and “