Isn't it usually around this time each year that they tell us we're in fr the coldest winter in 1000 years?

[StealthPolarBear]

I've not seen anything like that. Does that sort of news not warrant a mention at the moment or is this the one year where the predictions aren't so extreme?

They do it to scaremonger, but the scaremongering is already there this year anyway, so they have enough to keep them occupied.

Yes good point. And the space the supermarkets usually use for bags of salt is taken up by hand gel :)

You’re right! I’ve been a bit confused at the lack of such headlines, too. They’re usually in the Daily Express or other such shitrags (I don’t read them, I promise! I look at Google news which has headlines from lots of publications) and foretell terrible things blowing in from Siberia and weeks of temperatures in the minuses. It never transpires.

It’s disappointing for me: I love cold weather, ice, snow, etc. I have a padded coat that I only get to wear about two days per year here in South Wales!

Somebody told me this last week.

Their opinion was based on the ludicrous amount of acorns this year.

I was going to say they've got more to scaremonger about this year!

@Bwlch

Somebody told me this last week.

Their opinion was based on the ludicrous amount of acorns this year.

Oh, so that's not just going on near me then?

I've never seen a squirrel waddle before. Fat bastards can hardly climb the tree.

I wish they would. And I wish they were right. Would help with my never ending hot flushes and just being generally hot all the time. I wish for snow and Siberian winters. I still wouldn’t need to wear a coat though.

www.google.com/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/news/weather/1349067/UK-snow-forecast-weather-chart-maps-latest-met-office-update-october-2020/amp yes you can reply on the Express for this.

No, you are about ten days too early for that headline.

Well the holly trees around me are actually red with the amount of berries on them. I was always told that lots of holly berries for told a very hard winter. Possibly due another ice age I think......

They do the same for summer. Predicting weeks of "barbecue weather" etc and we get a disappointing 2 days of moderate warmth or something. It must sell papers.

I think the thought of the hospitals filling up with fractures and breaks on top of the oncoming covid-flu-maggedon might be enough to suck the remaining enthusiasm out of the most hyperbolic red top.

Ironically me and my mum were talking about this the other day, and how it’s usually the star who report on this hideous weather.

Then this morning she rang, and apparently the front page of the star is predicting thirteen days of snow and storms....

It was only a matter of time....

Last year was a great year for berries and acorns too.

We had precisely one day of snow (and that's up here in North Yorkshire).

It did, however, rain biblically. They missed that.

I deal with newspapers pretty much every day and, yes, it's the Daily Express that loves to tell us it's going to be the coldest winter since 1940something. However, this year they are too busy telling us that the hospitals are going to be over run any day now and we're all going to die. Snow seems a bit meh after that, really.

Our local newspaper did this last week - they had a big headline "Weather forecasters warn of cold winter ahead" then in the article - "when we've experience hot weather like we have this summer then a cold winter usually follows" Well who would have thought that! Hot weather in summer followed by cold weather in winter!

It is usually every 10 years we have a very bad winter, last one was 2010, we were snowed in for over 2 weeks. We have had the odd couple of days since but not as bad as 2010, ds & I had just moved in to our first house on our own, went to school first Monday in December & then didn't get to school again until last day of term.

@Bwlch

Somebody told me this last week.

Their opinion was based on the ludicrous amount of acorns this year.

Aren't there though?!

Seems to be a bumper crop for chestnuts as well.

@Bwlch

Somebody told me this last week.

Their opinion was based on the ludicrous amount of acorns this year.

Forget Covid and ice ages, I'm more worried about having my head caved in by a gargantuan acorn when in the woods

Put the papers out today and one (Daily Star I think) is forecasting an 'Arctic Blast' for the next fortnight, if that counts.

We've just had the wettest October day in record, calm yourself, we can't break all the weather records in one year!

The Express is "coolest winter ever" about now, "10"snow due" some point in January. "catestrophic floods tomorrow" in March and "37deg heat wave" in June.

My theory is that they think if they do it regularly enough, by the law of averages, they will occasionally be right.

That's exactly what I think Witchend. If they say 'this will be the coldest winter on record' every year, eventually it will be! And then they can say 'as the Express/Star/Sun/Mirror told you first...'