TH UKMO put out a press release (don't have the URL handy) essentially trying to distance themelves from the sensationalist stuff in the papers, and saying that the last 10 winters have been pretty warm and there is a 2/3 chance that his one will be back to the more usual sort.
Nothing special then, IMV, but I might get myself a cheap generator on Ebay just in case, to run the central heating pump
