4th October - Today's News: Will Britain Have Another 'Big Freeze' This Winter?

It was fairly wet in places over the weekend though not quite as bad - especially in Worcestershire - as forecast models had suggested. Made another £40 to bring my total on the Walker's rain Challenge to £110. But it now gets a bit more tricky as I only have one 'go' per day .....

As for the predicted floods, well there were some as Fire Service rescues 13 in North Yorkshire floods, hundreds of homes suffer flooding in London and in Wales rainfall delay takes Ryder cup into historic fourth day

Some wet weather elsewhere this weekend too:

Eight dead, missing in strong flood in Central Vietnam

And in Australia, kids rescued as rain lashes NSW north coast

It's predicted that ocean conditions likely to reduce Colordao River flows during this winter's drought

And finally, is Britain 'in for another big freeze winter'? - so says PWS, who also forecast record breaking high temperatures for August 2009 and again this summer.... Not surprisingly, the Met Office are unimpressed. More surprisingly, not all journalists have fallen for the spiel: Abhijeet Ahluwalia shows he's a cut above many of his colleages, not only asking of PWS, can they be trusted? but also criticising "tabloid newspapers that struggle to grasp the concept of statistical probability as opposed to iron-clad certainty". Hear hear!

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