BBQ summer ahead! (and don’t worry, this time it’s NOT the Met Office forecasting it) by Lucy Ballinger, Daily Mail: Updated with comments by Piers Corbyn

Article Tags: Comment, Headline Story, Jonathan Powell, Piers Corbyn, UK Summer Forecast 2010, Updated

It’s been a long time coming – a whole 12 months, in fact – but it seems the country really is on course for a barbecue summer.

And before you mutter: ‘I’ve heard that one before’, the prediction comes from a forecaster with a somewhat better record on the subject than the poor old Met Office.

It was the Met men who told us to expect a ‘barbecue summer’ in 2009, which turned out to be so spectacularly wrong that it led to an embarrassed Met Office dropping long-term seasonal forecasts.

In fact, last summer was a wash-out, as correctly predicted by Positive Weather Solutions, which has ‘out-forecast’ the Met Office over the last two years with a string of accurate long-term predictions. And PWS is confident that Britain will indeed see a barbecue summer this year………..The PWS forecast is:

JUNE: Starts with fine weather. Rain mid-month but temperatures warm to very warm. Changeable later in month with fine conditions although some heavy rain to finish.

Updated below in comments section by Piers Corbyn

Source: dailymail.co.uk

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