There are three spreads available this summer, the first is the Hottest UK Winter Temperature (F), for which the spread is 94.25 - 95.75 degrees. This seems a little on the low side, considering these days of global warming and greenhouse gases in abundance!

The second spread is 'Days Over 100F -will there be any occasions this summer where the temp breaches the magical 100 dgrees Fahrenheit barrier? The spread stand at 0.2 - 0.4 so the market makers think that it is unlikely. What's your view on whether this year will be a scorcher?

The third spread offered by Sporting Index is 'The Hottest August Day'. Will it be in the first half of the month or the second half? The spread is currently 15 - 16.5, so take your choice...

Check out the weather special spreads at Sporting Index here

This article was published at guardian.co.uk on 22nd March this year -at least someone out there has faith that it's going to be hot in August this year...

The Met Office may have given up long-range forecasting for the general public after getting its fingers burned by predicting a barbecue summer last year, but one of its rivals is not being so cautious. Positive Weather Solutions is apparently set to predict a sizzling summer this year.

The forecaster reckons it will be a summer to match or even beat 1976, when the country baked in record-breaking temperatures through July and experienced drought conditions until the weather broke in time for the bank holiday at the end of August. Jonathan Powell, the organisation's senior forecaster, told the Daily Mail: "There will be stifling temperatures, making it possibly the warmest UK summer on record and placing it at least in the top three warmest summers recorded." Note the cautious "possibly".

The forecast, to be published tomorrow, apparently suggests June will start fine, followed by rain in the middle of the month, with changeable conditions and heavy rain in time for Wimbledon fortnight. So far, so normal. Mid-July will see a very warm spell, followed by humidity, thunderstorms and flash floods. August will have long spells of sun and heat, but with the usual caveat that it will become showery and changeable nearing September. So probably no blizzards this summer, or plagues of frogs.