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Joyce from Market Harborough is an amateur weather forecaster.

She's been predicting the weather for 30 years, but the only equipment she has is a barometer. She says she bases the rest of her forecasts on what 'Mother Nature' tells her.

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大象传媒 Leicester's Julie Mayer went to Market Harborough to meet Joyce...

Joyce says she predicts the weather by looking at nature - for example, how animals are behaving and what kind of berries there are on the bushes.

White Christmas?

The Met Office say we're in for a rough winter, but what does Joyce forecast?

She thinks it's be windy with cold snaps but generally mild. There will be a sunny period in the new year, with the possibility of snow in January and February.

The question that many people want to know though is, will we have a white Christmas?

Joyce thinks not. She says she believes there will be gales in the middle of December and frost later, but no snow on 25 December.

Human barometer?

Joyce says she thinks her forecasts are reasonably accurate, although she has been wrong on occasion:

"I was very wrong last summer, I did think it was going to be a hot, warm and sunny summer.

"Well as you know it wasn't a good summer at all, it was a very wet one.

"But overall I'd say I'm about 70 percent right. Quite a few of the locals in Harborough say I'm better than the Met Office, but you can please yourself on that!