Its that time of the year again when the nights are really drawing in fast, and the leaves fade from brown and fall from the trees. Last year I made some weather predictions for winter 2008 – 2009, and it was pretty good! Some parts of the UK had their heaviest snowfall in years and here in Glasgow we had frequent snow falls and quite a long run of days where the frost never shifted, it was so thick after a few days it felt like snow!

As always there is a lot of time and effort and money being spent on the topic of Global Warming, now the Earth’s temperature has been increasing in recent decades but I’m in the group of people that think mankind has little or nothing to do with the increase in Global Temperatures. Here’s a fact which many of you may not know… What’s the hottest year in recent history? 2008? 2007? nope, in fact the Earth hasn’t been as hot as it was in 1998, which is the current peak in the recent global temperature. The trend since then over all has been one of cooling, with some years cooling more than others, which is reasonable to expect in the natural climate cycle.

So what are we to expect in winter 2009 – 2010?

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All the forecasts I’ve seen for the start of next week clearly show that we are in for an icy blast. The wind will swing and come in from the East bringing in very cold russian/scandic air flows. What does this mean for us? Well its going to be cold, very very cold. The east coast will get a some snow, depends how much moisture is in the air as to how much will fall, sadly however, now don’t quote me on this, but I think the western half of the UK will not get as much snow as the east, since the snow will tend to fall on the eastern side.