I'm easily swayed and will happily side with the 'another bumper Winter' crowd: it's enough for me that there are loads of berries in the hedgerows.
And if someone said that a mate of a colleague had heard from his pal that unusually low solar activity is causing a variation in the course of the jet stream, which is likely to bring colder and drier 'continental weather' to the UK instead of the ususal warmer, wet Atlantic stuff -- I'd start stockpiling Dammart.
That Express story makes me want to eat my desk though: some Weather Men think its going to be a cold winter because they think its going to be cold; and anyway, bad weather is really bad too because a volunteer minibus driver, 68, died when a tree crashed into his vehicle.
Does anyone still buy newspapers?