Summer has just finished. Just felt it go as the weather front slips in from the West. Who else is in tune with the weather?

[Zeal]

I knew it was coming today. I have been following the weather patterns for years, but it still took me by surprise. I saw the banks of thin white clouds just as the weather radar had told us.

Today is the last day of 20+ degree temperature in the U.K. for six months. It won’t come back now. It is going to drop a good 9 degrees starting overnight. The seasonal storms in Africa that spiral out across the mid-Atlantic are stronger, more frequent, so that by the time those hurricanes come round the east coast of Canada and under Iceland they will gather moisture and dump colder, wetter weather on the U.K. from now.

It has not been a particularly good summer. A long, cool, dry Spring. It gets darker now, earlier. I don’t mind the seasons. It’s just that this Summer has been poor weather for many things here.

Lovely day today, I've been out in the sunshine.
But the weather is definitely set to change.
I've been watching the trees suddenly shed lots of leaves in the last 3 days (rural area, mid-England but towards the east) and in the last two days we've suddenly had seagulls come inland. They don't normally unless the weather is about to change....the coast gets too cold so they come inland. I haven't seen them here for weeks but they're back now...

@Zeal

www.windy.com

Ah. Cool thanks.

Bizarrely I'm looking forward to tomorrow's rain. It's so dry, I do absolutely love the summer but once it's autumn as of last Tuesday 21st, it needs to start getting colder in accordance with the proper weather!

I've worried myself silly over climate change for the last 45 years, it slightly helps if the weather isn't insanely out of season although I of course realise weather isn't directly climate etc

No knowledge of meteorology at all but we went out for the day today (Fountains Abbey it's beautiful) and the sun was shining but it was definitely a last hurrah before Autumn. A very beautiful day (and then we came back and the petrol station in our village had run of out petrol!).

What a brilliant thread made me smile and laugh and feel a bit sad that I won't see much of my garden now (my garden looks lovely right now but I've not mastered planting things that bloom in autumn or winter yet) . I did notice today the shade was covering the garden much earlier than a few days ago and made the most of absorbing all the vitamin d possible this weekend . I like October though but despise November for me it's the worst month of the year. January I don't mind as it's a bit of a month to hibernate and spring is round the corner

The forecast is rubbish for the next week and it's getting dark early now. Hate it. Roll on next summer, let's actually get one this time though.

Oh god yes, I hate hot weather, you promise on that 9 degree drop? I could use that :P

@CherryHug

Oh god yes, I hate hot weather, you promise on that 9 degree drop? I could use that :P

Go to www.windy.com Select the temperature tab and click the button for the rolling display. You will be in ecstacy.

@Zeal thank you!!

Was v warm here today (SW London)- sun was positively hot. Gdcs were in their mini swimming pool in the garden in Oxford earlier.

It’s forecast to turn to Strictly Autumn from tomorrow though. Dh has informed me that it’s going to rain every day next week. At least that’ll save me watering the garden.🙂

We need some rain, I'm glad tbh

I love it when I feel the change in season.

I only ever notice summer into autumn and I'm not intuned enough to feel it every year.

I can't say I felt it this year on a conscious level but it may explain my sudden excitement about all things autumnal.

I get this! I particularly feel it moving from Winter to Spring - The Secret Garden musical has a beautiful song about it called Winter’s on the Wing. Look up the lyrics!
Also in agreement that you write so beautiful!

I thought this today too.

How strange. Dh and I sat in the garden this afternoon in the bright sunshine and as the clouds rolled over the sky I commented that Autumn had just arrived and there would be no more G and T’s in the sunshine for six months. The change was palpable and it made me feel a little sad.

I can feel the shift. My husband laughs at me when I say I can ‘smell autumn’ or I can ‘smell frost’

It’s been my dds birthday this weekend. It’s always the last week of sunny weather.
My car is also covered in sticky sap from the trees at work.

It was a pretty sunny day in central London, but it felt like a sunny autumn day rather than an end of summer day. Was happy to be wearing boots and a jumper again :) I've got nothing against summer, but it was a pretty meh one this year, but now the dark half of the year has arrived at least everyone knows what we are in for weather wise. We didn't really know if we were coming or going with summer this year!

The fields are already ploughed round here. This morning early on there was that low hanging mist over the lanes, the sort of autumnal mist which burns off within a few hours of daylight but I think is a definite signal of a season change.

@BashfulClam

I can feel the shift. My husband laughs at me when I say I can ‘smell autumn’ or I can ‘smell frost’

I can smell the rain before it comes. Dh and Dd say I’m insane.

I'm ready to feel cooler, to be able to work in the garden without over heating. I dread the short dark days that stretch so far ahead.

I can feel the change in the air before rain.
August is my least favourite of the summer months, damp and humid or just rainy. By the middle of the month when the Perseids meteor showers happen the longest of the evenings feel behind. September has more freshness to it. This morning was a proper autumn mists and mellow fruitfulness morning. October is beautiful but the best of autumn is gone with it. November and January are the hardest. At least with December there is the shift into mid-winter and seasonal distraction. January is long, hard and harsh, but there is finally the stretching of the light, snowdrops and the beginnings of buds begining to grow. By February there begins to be a gentle glow of heat from the sun again.

I have more energy at the changing of the seasons and can often feel stagnant when the natural changes slow in peak summer and winter.

Yes. I've felt the change in the season. It smells and feels different. I don't like it. It's already dark too early for me so I'm dreading the next few months. I'll be dusting off my passport I think.

I know exactly what you mean! Strangely enough I can only tell when we move into Autumn not the other seasons. I can step out of my door about 7 pm and smell it. Always around my birthday ( today!)
It is my favourite season, the colours, the smell, going out in long sleeved clothes but no need for a big coat, walks, no need to be seeking shade, no more painting toe nails!
I’d hate to live in a country where the seasons are similar.
I’m a very “ seasonal” person. Possibly stems from being in cyclical activities from the age of 5-60 as a pupil and an infant teacher! Harvest, Christmas, signs of Spring, Easter, Maypole dancing, outside PE, and repeat!

You are so right OP definately Autumn out there this am.