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It feels like autumn!

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DartmoorWanderer · 02/08/2025 14:57

And it’s only August 😩 I’m quite sick of this weather to be honest

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MyLimeGuide · 03/08/2025 12:46

Its usually really hot June/July and then cools down August in UK August so far has been average temp expected for this time of year. Im pleased the heatwaves are over!

MyLimeGuide · 03/08/2025 12:45

Its usually really hot June/July and then cools down August in UK August so far has been average temp expected for this time of year. Im pleased the heatwaves are over!

cardibach · 03/08/2025 12:42

Again, flowers have gone over earlier and fruits ripened because spring was early. They’ve completed their life cycle early. They aren’t doing it because it’s autumn.

DappledThings · 03/08/2025 12:38

I don't know what the temperature is but I am wildly overdressed in jeans and trainers on the Kent coast. Even with the breeze on the cliffs it's meltingly hot.

Forecast for Hebden Bridge is going back to 22/23 and sun over next few days so definitely still summer there too

RampantIvy · 03/08/2025 12:08

In the UK I adore cooler days, genuinely can't wait for darker evenings, leaves falling, pumpkins, Halloween, bonfire night. It's 100% the best time of year (IMO)

Nope, not for me. It's fun when you have small children, but I have been there, done that and got the T-shirt. I love an Indian summer, and hope we get one this year.

It would be useful for posters to say where they are as the "it's 26 dgrees and sunny here" isn't very helpful. We have hundreds of different microclimates in the UK and it is currently a cloudy 19 degrees in my part of Pennine South Yorkshire, and I have just driven back from Hebden Bridge where it is pissing down.

Canonlythinkofthisone · 03/08/2025 10:25

Bloody love Autumn.
Summer holiday for us is not for another few weeks but I pay to go abroad for sunshine and insect bites. 🤣
In the UK I adore cooler days, genuinely can't wait for darker evenings, leaves falling, pumpkins, Halloween, bonfire night. It's 100% the best time of year (IMO)
🎃🍁🍂

DappledThings · 03/08/2025 10:24

I'm already regretting my choice of socks and trainers over sandals today. It's proper hot in Kent

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DartmoorWanderer · 03/08/2025 10:21

K0OLA1D · 03/08/2025 09:43

Its not cold is it. Its just cooler than 30.

21 degrees is our summer with the occasional heatwave thrown in.

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It’s definitely cold down in Devon today!

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AutumnLover1989 · 03/08/2025 10:11

Perfect weather for me. Much prefer Autumn to sweating my tatas off 😔

MasterBeth · 03/08/2025 10:11

DartmoorWanderer · 02/08/2025 15:49

Why would I be worried? That heatwave patch through most of June and July was glorious!

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Why should you be worried about average summer temperatures rising year after year? Are you joking?

Hedjwitch · 03/08/2025 10:10

Low 20s in Central Scotland and still living in shorts and tee shirts here. Been lovely to have warmth and sunshine. Autumn can sod off.

weareallcats · 03/08/2025 10:04

I’m still finding it too warm and am looking forward to autumn! I find these weather threads interesting, as people seem to have such different perceptions of what is too hot/cold. I often wonder whether it’s genetic - I’m Celtic/Nordic with red hair, light eyes and very fair skin - a sunny 18 degrees is about as hot as I like it! I would be sweltering in a jumper at that temperature.

Christwosheds · 03/08/2025 09:58

It’s warm here but it’s felt like August for weeks, my garden has been looking how it normally does near the end of Summer, not like a July garden. It feels like it’s almost the end of the Summer holidays .

pennypans · 03/08/2025 09:53

These threads are so weird 😆 You simultaneously get posters saying they are in strappy tops and puffer coats at 20!

K0OLA1D · 03/08/2025 09:43

DartmoorWanderer · 03/08/2025 08:39

Yes. It’s cold, grey and miserable.

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Its not cold is it. Its just cooler than 30.

21 degrees is our summer with the occasional heatwave thrown in.

Wolfpa · 03/08/2025 09:43

I am in the East of England and it is still very much summer here

cardibach · 03/08/2025 09:39

Ooodelally · 03/08/2025 07:39

I had to wear a coat yesterday! Hated it and made me realise how spoilt for pleasant weather we’ve been recently lol. There is definitely an autumnal feel to the air, especially of a morning…

Where? It’s been warm enough for me (notoriously shit in the cold) to be in a t shirt every day so far.

cardibach · 03/08/2025 09:36

15minutesaday · 02/08/2025 23:32

It felt autumnal here this morning. Damp, cool, that petrichor smell. Lots of conkers and berries on the trees and the wildflowers have all gone to seed.

You get petrichor when it rains on hot tarmac. It doesn’t happen in autumn.
Cool and damp on a summer morning after rain isn’t autumnal. Many wild flowers are spring flowering. Many berries have a ripening season from mid July onwards. They’re a bit on the earlier side of that this year because spring was early so they’ve had time to ripen, not because it’s autumn.

cardibach · 03/08/2025 09:34

Gardeninrags · 02/08/2025 21:31

I agree. I wonder if the people who like hot weather just lie about in the sun doing nothing as the heat is really unpleasant for an active lifestyle of walking, gardening etc

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For you. Some people don’t find it so. Just as some don't find freezing cold and damp ‘cozy’. I find it difficult to leave the house even for things I enjoy in winter because I can’t face the cold. It takes me to the brink of depression every year and only doesn’t tip me over because I fight like hell.
But, yeah, hot chocolate and candles and cozy blankets.

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DartmoorWanderer · 03/08/2025 08:39

Jackiepumpkinhead · 03/08/2025 08:36

21c is depressing?

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Yes. It’s cold, grey and miserable.

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Jackiepumpkinhead · 03/08/2025 08:36

DartmoorWanderer · 02/08/2025 15:03

Maybe i need to move up north! The warmest we have in the next two weeks is 25, sitting closer to 20-21. It’s so depressing

21c is depressing?

TubeScreamer · 03/08/2025 08:30

This is classic August weather. If anything it is slightly warmer than normal.

DappledThings · 03/08/2025 08:17

Over the next three weeks I will be in 3 different parts of England, 200 miles between each. Forecast for all them is showing full sun and temps of 22-26. Nothing remotely Autumnal about it.

taxidriver · 03/08/2025 08:11

didnt need a coat, or even a cardigan at the seaside yesterday, took one as well as an umbrella, but it was still hot, but the ground is damp in the morning as well as the evening.

Ooodelally · 03/08/2025 07:39

I had to wear a coat yesterday! Hated it and made me realise how spoilt for pleasant weather we’ve been recently lol. There is definitely an autumnal feel to the air, especially of a morning…