Cold snap February, mild March, hot summer

My friend Tony is predicting a cold snap again next month, a mild March and a hot summer.

When professional forecasters can't get today's weather right a lot of the time, and the 3 months of freezing weather forecast in the autumn has, in the South East ,turned out to be a couple of cold days in December and a week of cold weather just now, why should I believe him?

Well this is the man who, execting a mild autmnn, sowed runner beans last October and got a crop!