Anyone else feeling the season starting to change

Still sweating where I am in Scotland. Especially at night, so muggy.

Of course the nights are coming in. We’re past the longest day. They are drawing in exactly to the same schedule they always have. Why so many people are commenting on it as though it’s something unusual meaning an early autumn I can’t work out…

Yes! There is a difference in the light. I love it - feels like a childhood memory in a film.

The Welsh for July is Gorffenaf - literally translates to the finish of summer. I think Cornish is similar.

It’s still 26 degrees here, but nights definitely drawing in, plants in garden already going over.
we’ve had weeks of sweltering 30 plus degree heat, I’m looking forward to September and autumn.

We have a row of hostas by a water feature. In the winter, they have died back, and start to shoot in early spring. The flowers bloom in June, and by the end of July the flowers have died and need removing. We usually have our main holiday in June, before the schools break up. I always have a tinge of sadness that summer is nearing it's end. We have had our summer hol, and we are now into dead heading, tidying up and the slope down into autumn.

The heatwaves and drought have sort of 'tricked' nature into a late summer response, in my opinion. The fruits are on the bushes and trees (although still immature), the leaves are turning brown (as trees and plants preserve their energy and water to make sure they reproduce) and even the wasps are early.

The nights start drawing in after the Sumer Solstice (20 June this year), and shops don't help by having 'Back to School' sales before the poor kids have broken up!

I do not mind the change in seasons, but I feel the seasons themselves are changing. They are become less distinct from each other, there are more extremes in the weather and, perhaps, the natural world is a little confused.

Can't wait for Autumn!

The heat has been horrendous for me. It triggers migraines and I haven't slept properly for months.
I'm too hot and it's too light! And the noise of Summer really stresses me.
I'm going through menopause right now and am craving darkness and peace

I can see my neighbours’ ginkgo biloba tree is showing the first signs of autumn. But I’m hoping we have many weeks of good weather still to come.

Not at all. Wasp season only kicked in this week. We were camping and it wasn't properly dark until gone 10.30.

It's nice and cool now but still summer cool. Plenty of time for it to turn into roasting hot unpleasantness still.

It’s usually the last week of August I feel the seasons change. There’s a difference in the evening sun and atmosphere. I love Autumm so I’m all for it!

Last night when I went to bed I thought about Autumn for the first time this year.

I know it's not even August yet, but here was something in the feel of yesterday.

Yes, made crumble yesterday from blackberries I picked in a park in London. Also perfect cool weather for dog walking.

I hope summer is over for us 😬 but not for the rest of you in other parts of the UK still wanting summer

I said the same thing to my sister to day that the nights are coming in unless its just me seeing it.
But i love it i love winter time.

🙉

I thought the same today OP! I’ve had our windows and back door open for weeks (utterly joyous!) AND washing on the line pretty much every day….today the washing was still a little damp when I came to take it in and I felt a change of the evening so closed the back door - reluctantly - an hour earlier than usual.

The weather really has been cooler since Saturday but I’ve high hopes for the rest of the season although August is so hit and miss isn’t it?

Cant complain though - I’ve loved the warmth this year xx

8 o clock and it was getting a bit dusky. Funny how quickly it starts to change. I love summer and spring. The thought of winter makes me cry. I really don't like it

I really noticed it this evening - darker earlier, and I drew the curtains downstairs first the first time since about April. It was warm in the day but drizzly and it is cool now

I made my second batch of blackberry jelly yesterday - it feels really early for that! I’d love a second heatwave; I wonder what the long range forecast is

Yes, I felt it on the breeze yesterday (I'm in NI) and it stopped me in my tracks. It feels too soon. Hopefully it's just faux autumn as previous poster wrote

I think it will heat up again. It seems to have happened in some countries in europe which are normally consistently hot. It went from 40 to 28 with rain within a day now some of my family are worried their beach holidays will be ruined the next couple of weeks.

Agree. I see acorns and blackberries on my walks and had to out a jumper on today.

I thought this today. Despite being warm, it felt damp and there are conkers and blackberries everywhere. I had washing out most of the day that didn’t dry fully. I’m in the southeast. The first week of the hols has been disappointing weather wise and I’m hoping we’ll get some more long term sunshine and warmth.

It's a feeling isn't it? It's not really related to temperature - it's more to do with the light. And yes I've felt it....it's the best time of the year.

I much prefer Spring and Autumn to Summer. I expect this faux Autumn will pass and you'll get your Summer back soon! bah!

I normally notice it in mid-August, but by this stage of summer it often feels a bit "stuck" and inbetween. That first fresh flush of summer has passed and there's a bit of an awkward gap between fruits ripening and second bursts of blooms coming back for late summer.

Last week my garden was looking very bland and I ended up buying some annuals to put into pots around the borders to get some colour back.

Today was rather dull (but pleasantly mild) and I ended up putting lights on in the house an hour before sunset.

I'm glad we've had enough rain to get the grass verdant and get things growing again, but I hope that isn't it on sunshine.