I don't have the knowledge you guys and gals have here which is why i usually try and figure out what's written between the lines (usually in the Models Discussion area for snow ). It is on the whole, all too much for my brain but i usally figure out if it will snow in the London area by basic reading skills, and deduction.. In my case very basic. .
I must admit i i have wondered how they "get it wrong" sometimes but reading the alternative views has it seems given me some insight into how difficult it can be predicting the weather so i do learn something after all.
Ha! It already is nature balancing the lack of rain we've had on the last two winters, albeit taking away our summer.
As for next summer, I can see the headline in a certain newpaper claiming that during a scorcher "The Sun Baked My Hamster"