October Pattern Index

I know that the Express makes the same prediction every year about this time. That the coming winter will be The Vengeful Winter Of Inescapable and Inevitable Doom and Annihilation. Ok, so some years they downgrade it slight to 'Arctic Blast Of Certain Death' or 'Siberian Weather Assault of Destruction' or similar, but in essence, its the same thing.

 

I wonder how many years it will take of Express predictions to get it right, if at all!

 

They will get it right sooner or later, as long as the human race, and the Express stay around long enough. The earth's climate sort of yo-yos over many millenia, slowly oscillating between ice age and tropical at the poles and back again. Back in the early 1980s some scientists thought we were due for another ice age already. This was before better data and better data modelling hinted that we were still thawing from the last one which only ended about 20,000 years ago, which is absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things. Opinion is very divided though as to which way the climate is heading, and how slow global changes will have a much more rapid localised effect, but it does seem that seemingly subtle changes in one part of the world can have a profound effect in another (like our jet stream shifting by a few hundred miles), so sooner or later, a butterfly will flap its wings in the Amazon, and boom! Arctic Tornado Of Peril sweeps through Britain and we all freeze to death. All except the staff at the Express, who will be in a heated bunker, heated using gas that they've slowly been stockpiling because they know the energy supplies will run out in winter, and they'll be ok, surviving to print a dozen copies of the Express, one for each member of the team in the bunker, with the headline simply saying "Told Ya".

 

Every year the Express predict a horrendous winter and are wrong 19 times out of 20 . But accurate reporting has never bothered the Express , a complete rag of a paper . Only good thing in it is Rupert Bear - is Rupert still in the Express?

 

The Express has to put the same article in each year because if they didn't and we get the bad weather they are always predicting then they can say told you so.....

 

Two years ago I was told they forecast a hotter summer than ever, it was the wettest!
I am trying to work out if buying the Express weekly would be a cheaper toilet paper option?

 

I don't really think so , the Met Office is possibly on of the best weather forecasting services in the world . At the moment they say that the 4 day forecast is as accurate as a 1 day one in 1980 , you notice they will only predict three days on the TV . They can also give a a general weather pattern for the coming month with some accuracy. At the moment no one with any credibility will forecast over a month ahead. So we only have the Daily Express for this.

 

The Daily Express has been forecasting that nonsense every single year for the last 100 years, and only once have they been right.

 

My son has in-laws in West Virginia, America and he says meteorologists are on storm watch there, expecting up to six inches of snow and ice.