To think it doesn’t feel like Autumn?

[Teenytinyfeet]

Not sure about where you are, but here it’s been consistently 17/18 degrees pretty much everyday in October. Today it’s 18 degrees again, I’ve still got the fan on at night as my room is still 20/21 degrees every evening.

We haven’t put the log burner on once yet and we’re mid October, the heating has clicked on a couple of times in the last week or so first thing in the morning and later evening but that’s about it.

Obviously with the price of heating this winter it’s a good thing, but I do love Autumn and it just doesn’t feel very autumnal to me. Most of the trees round here still have all their leaves, the trees in our garden still have all their leaves, the oak tree is starting to golden but still hasn’t dropped many, usually the grass is full of leaves by now.

After a never ending scorching summer, I’ve been looking forward to a hot chocolate in front of the fire and wearing my new winter coat…neither will be happening for a while looking at the temperatures for the next 10 days.

Anyone else think we’re having an unusually warm October?

Do you mean weather or climate?

Gorgeous here in Hampshire, warm and sunny, front window wide open 😍

T shirt weather in London today

You're definitely not in Northumberland, it's definitely autumn here and lovely with it.

@Teenytinyfeet

you are right global warming is a huge issue and people who say this is normal are just thinking of the last few years when it has become normal due to GW.

we need to change fast.

Agree. I'm 64 and I've known a fair number of Octobers like this.

In England we are running warmer than average so far this month as measured by the Central England temperature. It is measured across a rough triangular area that bounds Lancashire, Bristol and London. We are running 1.5c warmer than the long term mean for October.

It is very definitely autumn in Scotland! Blue skies today but howling a gale and we had some torrential rain over the weekend. My heating has been on morning and evening timer since the end of Sept.

Growing up in the north of Scotland we always were amazed at the green leaves on the trees when we watched Armistice Day at the Cenotaph. Where we were the leaves had been blown off the trees months before.

You clearly don't live in Northern England then...

Totally agree. All these people going on about how they don’t have to turn their heating on as it’s ‘just not cold’ They must all live on SE.

It was 5 degrees round me last night.

It’s quite upsetting to me that people don’t seem to realise that this isn’t normal. It is normal to have the odd day like this in October but it was 20C in the car earlier (south east) and it’s been warm every day so far.

It reached 40C in many parts of the uk this summer…..remember? I hate to ruin your lovely day (and yes it is lovely) but you should be worried.

Depends where you are. I was in London this morning and it was glorious. Just got off the train home, (up North) and the cold hit me.

Yeh, I agree, it’s really not good re a global warming perspective. It really shouldn’t be nearly 20 degrees everyday in October. I’ve just got back from a walk and there were wasps and hornets everywhere (really not nice) they’d definitely have died off by now usually.