What's current price of heating oil?

to the end of January over the UK. Over parts of central and northeastern Europe, average or below average conditions become favoured by the end of January and current indications suggest this trend will continue, leading to below average temperatures for the full winter

So warmer until january then colder thereafter.

Not according to anything from the UKMO then:

I know which I'm going for taking everything into account and it's not the one most wish for.

Put the champers in the fridge. I'll be round in half an hour

Anna

~~ Anna Kettle, Suffolk, England |""""| ~ Lime plaster repairs / ^^ \ // Freehand modelling in lime: overmantels, pargeting etc |____|

That's a pattern I have noticed the last few years.

Warm till Xmas and then bloody freezing!

Several weeks ago, someone on the UK.sci.weather newsgroup posted a series of snowfall peaks covering most of a century. Going by that graph, I say that we may get some wintery spells in a few years time. But IIRC we will not have any severe cold weather until 2015 or thereabout.

This winter will be almost a repeat of last year's, going by the phases of the moon. If you remember there was an unseasonably mild spell in January following the amazing events after X-Masque.

Now to business: Anyone know if the monkey in the Whitehouse managed to finish "Billy The Goat" over the last few days?

Or did he see his country's most urgent need was sorting out the oil?

He must have been doing something besides eating too many bananas and crapping in his nest.