[Tom]

Climate scientists have predicted that 2009 is set to be one of the five warmest years on record.

The average global temperature for 2009 is expected to be more than 0.4C above the long term average, the Met Office and University of East Anglia researchers said.

The Met Office also predicted a rapid return to long-term warming for global temperatures and an increased probability of record temperatures after 2009.

Currently the warmest year on record is 1998, which saw average temperatures of 14.52C - well above the 1961 to 1990 long-term average of 14C.

Professor Phil Jones, director of the climate research unit at the University of East Anglia, said: "The fact that 2009, like 2008, will not break records does not mean that global warming has gone away.

"What matters is the underlying rate of warming - the period 2001-2007, with an average of 14.44C, was 0.21C warmer than corresponding values for the period 1991-2000."

http://www.itv.com/News/Articles/Exp...644214131.html

[Fom]

Lmao, I will believe it when I see it. I hope so... but I just doubt it.

[Princess]

YES!!!!!! I thought I'd be screwed for the stadiums.

[Tom]

Originally posted by Fom
Lmao, I will believe it when I see it. I hope so... but I just doubt it.

The same experts predicted last year and the year before so they can't be that bad, plus its been quite warm for this time of year as well

*clutches at more straws in hope its true*

[Princess]

I am so believing this. If we believe in it it will come true.

It will be sunny next summer. It will be sunny next summer.

[*mazedsalv**]

I WISH

[rayheartbliss]

i hope so

[hannah.]

GOOD! I'd like a natural tan this year please

[hannah.]

Originally posted by Princess
I am so believing this. If we believe in it it will come true.

It will be sunny next summer. It will be sunny next summer.

I love you Laura

[Jackie]

I hope so can't wait until summer anyway

[supernoodles!]

wahhhhheeeeyyy i can`t wait for summer seriously.

[jonsep]

i hope so it was on a wednesday this year and i slept in and missed it

[bananarama]

Experts are they not the worlds most fantastic stand up comediens......

[podge2007]

We haven't had a decent summer since 2006 so let's hope this year is a scorcher.

[30stone]

They said 2009 will be the hottest summer since the 1600's and part of that was because it was the 1 in 7 hot summer thing. So this is probably rubbish lol

[NettoSuperstar!]

Yeh i reckon we will. Cold winter-hot summer like it used to be back in the day!

[Dom:D]

Originally posted by Fom
Lmao, I will believe it when I see it. I hope so... but I just doubt it.

[Princess]

I'm holding out my hopes for a good summer *everything crossed*

[katie_x]

It goes from 1 extream to the other, but pleaaaaase some sun without the sticky humid part. yea pigs may just float through the sticky sunny snowing sleet english (make your bloody mind up) weather like a lovely flutterby

[30stone]

1 or 2 years ago they said that it was going to be the hottest summer since the 1600's yet it wasnt and that was the one in 7 years its meant to be hotter.