For around the past month, I thought that this winter was looking quite good, nothing to me suggested any huge records being broken but there was certainly some snow and cold potential, and it looked to me like it would come around January, which is always a good time. Honestly, even when the graphs went bad medium-term in the past couple of days, it didn't really change my mind. But looking at everything now, I've had to think that the winter is going to be a huge disappointment, I wasn't following it nearly as much last year but except from the start and the end, when I wasn't expecting it, it seemed close to being something good but it never really was. I'm not predicting that there will be no cold spells, but I don't see them being anything special. Hopefully there will be good lowland snow at some point, but I worry that it won't happen at all. Looking at all the predictions, and the 'good' graphs, I only imagine it either going to the mild side or just never being cold enough.
But, as always, you can quite definitely disregard everything I've said. As you can probably tell, I have very little knowledge of predicting weather, and what to most people might be a decent winter to me isn't good enough. It'll be interesting to be told and to see how wrong I am.
(also sorry if I sent this a bunch of times by accident, I think I got logged out)