each winter. Back in January, when I bumped into him in a restaurant, he was beaming: 'Joe says this cold weather’s going to last three months,’ he said. Joe is Joe Bastardi, a private weather forecaster, who does not let global warming cloud his judgment. Based on jetstreams, el ... Niños and ocean oscillations, Bastardi said the winter of 2011-12 would be cold only in eastern Europe, which it was, but the winter of 2012-13 would be cold in western Europe too, which it was. He’s now predicting ‘warming by mid month’ of April for the UK ... some degree of doubt, there is one forecast we can be sure of: There is no end in sight to the “climate change” excuses.
Joe Bastardi is chief forecaster at WeatherBELL Analytics, a meteorological consulting firm