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Issued: 0930 Monday 19th December 2005
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Workshops Frozen? I Hope not!

The forecast for Christmas Day is still causing problems, although I remain fairly confident that it should, at least, be dry, so unlikely we'll have a white Christmas.

So, with little else to do now but wait for each run of the forecast models to come through, I thought I'd look at the weather at Father Christmas's various workshops.

And it is very cold for Elves right now, so I hope they are all wrapped up warm. Temperatures at the North Pole this morning were at -38C! In Greenland it wasn't much better at -32C, whilst Lapland had temperatures of -12C.

But, they weren't as cold as central Siberia where temperatures were a bone-freezing -44C.

Brrrrr. Whatever the weather, keep the sun shining!
Simon