Perhaps metman would care to post the exact wording of the official Met Office winter prediction?
here is one who would certainly understand it.
thinks ....... is this the same Met Office team that promised a BBQ summer? Thought so.
Regarding moving Met instruments on a military base, this is usually driven by customer requirements, which the SMetO should resist, but the bottom line is that he is only the hired hand.
The really nasty instrument to muck about with is the anemo, either moving it, or allowing new and large structures to be sited within a few hundred metres of the mast. Not good for the customer at all.
This happened at an Eastern civil airfield for which I had over-arching Met. responsibility, and I refused to sign the annual certificate of metworthiness [not that it was called that officially].
My boss signed it so that was OK., it was safe after all.
I have never ever flown out of or into that airfield since.