January 2009 Forecast/Analysis of the oncoming blizzards

A New Year dawns and therefore time to start off the 2009 Boards Weather League.

Will Nacho be topped from his crown or will the honour and the glory be returning back east :P

Thanks to everyone for the ideas in the thread started by Danno recently.

The main points i think that I'd like to take into that are :-

1) A seasonal question with a fair amount of points that gives everyone a chance - should have some element of skill I think though too, will revisit that later after I've had a think about it
2) Less "random" questions but keep the fun element - will keep one fairly silly topical prediction in there per month.
3) Regarding the question of stations will be used, I'm going to take my figured from the Monthly Weather Summary reports as they get issued early in the new month and the Bulletons for the seasonal stuff, these seem to lag by a couple of months in general but is the fairest way to go, loads of interesting stats in them to play with too so i reckon is a useful resource.

Deep Easterly has kindly offered to provide the mean monthly temperature as per his calculations previously.

So here's the first set of questions for the new season :-


1) What will be the maximum recorded temperature be during January as per the Monthly Weather Summary?
2) What will be the minimum recorded temperature be during January as per the Monthly Weather Summary?
3) What will be the mean monthly temperature
4) What will be the rainfall % of normal be in Shannon Airport for the month?

I'll start a seperate thread for a winter season mega question later once i've thought of something semi sane!!



Best of luck to all and Nacho, tell the engraver that Annamoe is spelled AN NA MOE, he'll need to know that shortly :P :pac::pac: