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I wasn't sure which topic to put this in so I put it here. I've tried looking up about this on Google but can't find any results I want, so I thought I'd ask on WP, being so I generally get descent answers from other Aspies.

Anyway I wanted to ask about the weather pattern, preferably in the UK. Growing up in the 90's, I hardly saw any snow, except for the odd snowfall which only lasted about two days at the most then thawed out pretty quick and that was our lot for the winter. I don't remember any prolonged snow, although I do remember a few freezing cold winters but no snow. But I remember having a lot of thunderstorms during the summer when I was growing up. Then when I got in my late teens we suddenly didn't have any thunderstorms during the summer, and we had extremely long, cold winters, involving lots of snow, for a few winters running. Then this winter what's just gone was wet and mild throughout, with not one flake of snow (except for Scotland). And this summer and last summer we've had some real proper thunderstorms.

I wondered if that was a pattern, or if it's just a coincidence. It's August now, and apparently tonight there's going to be a frost. A frost, in August! That has worried me, in case it means an unbelievably cold winter. But then someone else said that if we get unseasonable weather now, then we might get unseasonable weather this winter, which means mild temperatures and lots of rain. I love the rain, and I'm hoping this winter is going to be another complete wash-out again.

So the question is, does the weather and temperatures in the summer have anything to do with how the winter's going to be? Does it affect the winter, or does it make any difference at all to the weather pattern?

welcome to the exciting world of climate change

there's not a direct relationship between winter and summer weather; it's not cause & effect. the climate patterns affect temperatures rather than the other way around, and they are in a time of flux at the moment. the temperature factor that does come into play is the global average temp; weather/climate are (in the mathematical sense) chaotic, and as the avg. changes it will bring increased chaos in the system until a new stability is established.

(i'm not real happy with how some of my phrasing came out - hope it's understandable)