There is no way they can accurately predict the weather for the next 3 months, despite what certain publications (I can't bring myself to call them 'newspapers'!) say! Weather these days is forecast using a vast number of computer models - current conditions, Atlantic pressure systems, the jet stream, etc are all put into the models and they spit out what the computer calculations say will happen ... for a few days, the results are all pretty similar (short-range forecasts are usually not far wrong), then the results start to diverge. By 2 weeks out, there's very little correlation between the models, and by a month away there's no pattern at all - anything could happen!!! I have no doubt that those 'certain publications' will wheel out 'worst weather on record' stories every couple of weeks between now and next April (interspersed with consipiracy theories about deaths in Paris tunnels)!!
