Anyone else feeling the season starting to change

I live by the sea and I'm just happy we took advantage of it before my child broke up from school, when it was really hot. I'm guessing we might be going to the beach after school again in early September and August will be cold.

There’s definitely an autumnal tang here on the edge of the Cotswolds, and has been for the past week or so.
Blackberries have been ripe since mid-June (at least a month earlier than usual), the blackthorn bushes are heavy with sloes, the chestnut trees are loosing their leaves ( they’re infected with a virus again), harvesting has finished around here and the swifts have left the village church and barns.

The leaves are yellow due to heat stress/dry soil, fruits have ripened faster.
The weather has been thankfully a bit milder but the nights are hardly ‘drawing in’. It’s not even August. Don’t wish time away.

Yep, the spiders have started moving in the little bastards. Need to get the peppermint spray out

Although it does feel like Autumn is around the corner today, we still have August yet to start.. so I hope (and think!) we still have a lot of sunshine and warm weather to come!

No.

It's got a bit cooler so the weather has changed not the season.

The warmest day on average in the UK is around 20th of July and of the ten warmest days on record 4 of them are in August.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_weather_records

Brambles have a really long season. Though apparently if you eat them from October the devil will be in you... 😼

Are you all bonkers? It’s definitely still summer

Permanently boiling over here. June is hayfever, July is insect bites, the whole time is a nightmare for the dog, and me, because I sweat buckets on walks and have to get changed every time I come home, it's like going to the bloody gym every day. I curse this fecking heat. I can feel the shades of peri looming toward me and I need someone to complain to, it's unacceptable, I tell you!

Definitely. We love light nights and warmth. DS is regularly at the park until 9 and it is so good for him not to be stuck indoors from 4 like he is in winter. The nights are noticeably drawing in now and I find it accelerates in August.

Its definitely a weird weather year for crops - Blackberries are out a full month earlier this year than last and its a very good year for them! I always thought of blackberries as an autumn berry which went with the cooking apples that fell from my Grandma's tree in late August but not anymore. After the recent rain, the grass is growing like nothing on earth - hopefully the farmers will still get a second silage cut to make up for the 50% drop in yield on their first one and the hay crop this year. The wheat/barley/oats look to be ripe early too - some fields around us have already been combined (E Midlands).
I'm going camping the last week of August (before the BH) so hoping for warm days and evenings although I expect there to be an autumn chill in the air come nightfall.

Yes, I felt the change in the air and almost the “autumn smell” when I was on a dog walk a few days ago.

According to Woodlamd Trust the expected ripening range for blackberries is mid July to September. I checked because everybody going ‘ooo it seems early’ didn’t feel right based on my own experiences in previous years. https://naturescalendar.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2025/it-s-bramble-season-let-us-know-when-you-spot-your-first-ripe-berry/

The sunset is currently getting earlier by over 3mins per day and increasing gradually until it’ll be about 4mins a day end of Sept/beginning of October. It will feel like it is starting to draw in quick now as it is getting quicker each day. I’m going to enjoy the remaining lighter evenings as all too soon it’ll be dark before I leave work.

I've noticed the blackberries and conkers just the last few days, some of our blackberries are ripe which seems much earlier than previous years. I love autumn as a season but could do with it coming in a few weeks! Holding out for some warmer weather still too

I think it's just because it's a bit grey and so the nights getting a bit shorter is more noticeable. We are a month past the solstice. Fear not, summer lovers - the forecast for the coming two weeks is bright sunshine and 26/27c (in London at least). Summer ain't over yet!

Yes, the air started to feel different last week, although earlier than expected.

Will be very glad to see the end of summer and this awful heat.

Where do you live? Don't feel like that in Yorkshire just yet.

It feels autumnal, but also muggy today. Not sure how. There was a bite in the air this morning, but now it’s just close and cloudy.

Exactly
Still plenty of summer left. I think the eulogising about candles snuggling and cosy starts earlier every year though
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@rasputinsghost it was one thing we liked when we lived in Copenhagen and our friends in Sweden said similar - seasons still felt more defined - more winter frost and snow, longer summer nights etc

Yes. My washing got darked on earlier than it should have...😉

OH GO AWAY!
It's STILL SUMMER!

Yes, in the Celtic calendar August is the start of Autumn and February is the start of Spring.

My buddleia is almost finished flowering and it's usually only just started. Same with thistles, last year they weren't even out until end of August, this year they've almost all gone to seed already. Probably the hot, dry weather earlier on has pushed everything on.

I remember the day I first noticed I could "feel" it was Autumn, it was 18 September 1987, I took a mental note but unfortunately have not done so in subsequent years. It's definitely coming earlier, I'll try to make a note of when I notice it this year.

I can't believe how early the blackberries are ripening this year - I ate a handful last week and planning a picking session this weekend, for the freezer. I've never known them be ready in July!