Meteorologists are well known to have a genuine hatred of one another and are in competition to out do each other with outrageous predictions of when the world will end. They have even been known to form gangs. Last year tension rose to new levels when Jonathan Owen of the "Meteo-maniac" gang predicted that global warming will spell the end of the world by 2050. Only two weeks later Michael Cheeseman of the "Terror to the weather" organisation claimed that global warming will spell the end of the world by 2045. Expect further predictions to follow.