That it's warm for November?

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Just that really. In the South East it's still hovering around 14-16 degrees. Supposed to be 18 degrees next Monday.

Usually it's really cold on bonfire night weekend, with a need for hats etc, nothing like that at the moment.

Are we just having an unseasonably warm spell?

Again, it's none of your business why someone else makes different decisions.

Ok let’s change CAN to WILL shall we. This is what has been happening in the US.

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/01/climate-crisis-us-food-system-five-crops

and a British farmer’s view

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/08/british-farmer-food-climate-crisis-business

nothing to see here, no definitely not 🥴

Me too definitely. This was in the north though, it could well have been milder in the south.

No, I just feel sorry for children today whose parents had them despite being warned about a horrific future. I'm allowed to wish that fewer people will suffer, even if they're not related to me.

It’s so warm, not just mild. I will agree that we have had milder autumns the last couple of years but this is actually really warm. I haven’t put the heating on apart from one day in September when it got cold. I’m wearing the same denim jacket I wore all summer (out summer was cral tbf) and I changed back to our summer duvet a few weeks ago. It’s great. I wish we just got good summers though.

You're being judgemental too.
That's tiresome.

We're in the NW and it's been very warm (for the time of year) here. We went to Bonfire Night on Saturday and I had to take my coat off and didn't feel the need to put it back on. I always remember Bonfire Night being bitterly cold when I was a child

I still haven't had to get the tights out. Still bare legged ( but with fake tan ).
It's unusually mild.

I have flowers that normally bloom in July. This year none of them started until mid-August and I have a few that only finally bloomed for the first time last week! 3 months later than normal. It’s a very weird year.

Weather isn't climate (and vice versa).

That said, I can recall cracking the ice on puddles in September in London, growing up.

I think I'll also live to see an entire year without a frost.

It's not just in the UK. It's 25 degrees on Wednesday in New York. I'm heading there in a couple of weeks and it looks like my 'depths of winter' wardrobe won't be needed.

It is unusually mild. I think in recent years we tend to get the coldest weather towards the end of winter.

"Unusual" depends on what you are used to ...

Some 10 year old kids probably won't think this is odd at all. And are probably bored with the oldies banging on

15 years ago I’d scrape the ice off the car in the morning regularly in winter. Sometimes every day for weeks on end.

I think last year I scraped the ice off twice.

We had a few days in March that were ice-chipping in the morning. So my Rubicon of a frost-free year remains unrealised.

But I don't think it's far off.

It does make you wonder what things would be like if climate change was real, doesn't it ?

Another one reporting in from the south-east - it's been dull and grey for the past five days but my wild strawberry plants are flowering again in the back garden and I'm still picking a couple of fresh ripe strawberries each week.

Yep...same!

Northern Scotland here, normally I try to resist putting the heating on until the "tattie" holidays are over. That was 3 weeks ago and I think I've only had the heating on twice for about 1/2 hour each time, just to take the chill off.

After a grey morning it's now blue skies here in London. Have hung my washing up and put the bins out....it's not even coat weather. I had a thin long sleeved jersey type top on and that felt fine.

I have just looked at online weather records and the temperature here (Glasgow) is in line with the temperature over the last eight Novembers.

I have this conversation every year because people always comment that it's really mild and they remember recent winters being colder, but that's because November isn't really winter yet.

It will be cold as balls in February and we'll be back to cursing the council for not gritting the roads.

I do my (little) bit as advised but I'm powerless in the face of population increase, the denuding of the rain forests, large conglomerates generating CO2 and so on and on around the world.

I just wake up every day and am glad to be alive and enjoying the mild weather for now. Let's face it, stressing over things that are beyond our individual power is futile really. We will be wiped out quicker from stress related illness than climate.

Enjoy the weather, enjoy your day.

Isn't there a meteorology word that describes the mild, sunless, windless, nothing weather that we're having at the moment? Pretty sure the weatherman dropped it into the forecast but I forgot it almost immediately.

We have seen people trick or treating in shorts and sandals in recent years, I don't think it being this mild in November is unusual any more

anticyclone ?

That might be it, anticyclonic gloom.