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Temperature not freaking everyone out?

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JKDcot · 30/09/2023 07:34

Meant to be 23/24 degrees in London next week? Not usual for early October… anyone else think it’s bonkers that climate change so obvious and still nothing being done my government and corporates

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liveforsummer · 30/09/2023 09:34

DinnaeFashYersel · 30/09/2023 09:21

Lucky London.

It's 10C and pishing it down with rain in Scotland

Let's not forget that constant bloody wind!!!

Butterfly898 · 30/09/2023 09:40

BatshitCrazyWoman · 30/09/2023 09:01

Not my bit of London!

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Same! Whereabouts in London are you OP? I’m in zone 2/3 and the forecast is between 17 and 20 throughout the week.

PreetyinPurple · 30/09/2023 09:41

I always remember starting uni in mid September and it was bloody boiling. 30 years ago.
It always Halloween/bonfire night that the weather switches.
It’s chilly here morning/evening and warm in the middle of the day, so you never dress correctly.

TheYearOfSmallThings · 30/09/2023 09:43

It's nothing new - I remember when I started at UCL a quarter century ago (Shock) it was 26/27° in Freshers week. Coming from Ireland I was pretty surprised and it played havoc with my carefully planned autumnal clothing schedule Grin.

Coastalcreeksider · 30/09/2023 09:50

My birthday is mid October, several years ago, I went out for birthday lunch with friends and we all had summer clothes on, sleeveless tops, bare legs, it was that warm.

We ate outside too, it was the most gorgeous day. Would love it to be that nice for this birthday.

80sMum · 30/09/2023 09:52

And yet we now have that duplicitous weasel, Rishi Sunak, jumping onto the bandwagon of assumed public opinion in a desperate attempt to win votes by announcing the potential reversal of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and Fifteen-minute Cities! 😡

Well Rishi, if you had been saying the opposite, ie that you believed that, despite the inconvenience, we owe it to ourselves and to the planet to try to wean ourselves away from our reliance on cars, then I might have considered voting Conservative for the first time in my life.😳.

tpxqi · 30/09/2023 09:54

Do you normally get freaked out by everything? It’s hysterical and abnormal. Get help.

LuckySantangelo35 · 30/09/2023 10:01

@JKDcot

the temps are normal Op and it’s nice that it’s milder

SnapdragonToadflax · 30/09/2023 10:04

October can be absolutely lovely, we've done a few October UK holidays and always had decent weather with maybe the odd cooler or rainy day.

However, that's not to say climate change isn't real or a serious problem. It is.

CurlewKate · 30/09/2023 10:08

@SnapdragonToadflax Yes. And anyone who says it isn't is living in denial.

RampantIvy · 30/09/2023 10:08

Our forecast for the coming week

Temperature not freaking everyone out?
CurlewKate · 30/09/2023 10:09

Sorry-that was for @JKDcot!!

Beezknees · 30/09/2023 10:10

October has always been better weather than April until right towards the end of the month.

ginandtonicwithlimes · 30/09/2023 10:11

It was cold up in Yorkshire this morning.

DustyLee123 · 30/09/2023 10:11

The weather isn’t that unusual. I remember sending my girls back to school in summer dresses after the summer, and them wearing them until half term.

redsky21 · 30/09/2023 10:13

We moved house on 1st October 2011, was 30° that day

CateringPanic · 30/09/2023 10:14

The day I moved into university halls, 1st October 2011, was an absolute scorcher

CateringPanic · 30/09/2023 10:14

@redsky21 didn’t see your post - how funny!

lljkk · 30/09/2023 10:16

It doesn't seem unusually warm at all to me. I'm grateful not yet cold, dark & rainy.

I remember being on beach (with many other families) for October half term, Cromer, 2004. Kids were going in the water.

2011 the temps were super high in early October. Much warmer than forecast this weekend.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 30/09/2023 10:23

An Indian Summer, as it’s known, is not at all unusual in October. Victorians (those who had holidays) often took them in October.

I well remember a really beautiful 31st October years ago - 21 deg and full sun, very warm. The very next day - 1st November - we were into rain, wind and cold with a vengeance!

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 30/09/2023 10:24

And more recently, a beautiful 10th or 11th Oct - family do for a Big Birthday - everyone out in the garden in the sun.

MrsLeBon2 · 30/09/2023 10:25

I remember drinking outside a pub after work in early November about 20 years ago, it was too warm for coats.

However, it’s ‘climate change’, not ‘global warming’ any more because the effects are not just going to produce warmer weather. If the Gulf Stream is deactivated, which is becoming more and more likely, it’s going to become much cooler in Northern Europe

3WildOnes · 30/09/2023 10:26

In 2011 I had a big party at the beginning of October and I'm pretty sure it reached 30 that day.

RampantIvy · 30/09/2023 10:31

I well remember a really beautiful 31st October years ago

This was 2014. I mowed the lawn that day. I don't ever remember being able to do this so late in the year.

I remember the year I left school in 1977 going to the local park with a friend in the middle of October and it being too warm for coats.

The odd freakishly warm day in October is not unusual.