Autumn 2023

[GloriaSmud]

As we're a few weeks away from the start of meteorological autumn (1st September), some early thoughts here.

Welcome to the thread Rocks! if you click on the weather heading you'll find that there's a whole topic. Building your own stevensons screen sounds like a great project! Which instruments will you house in there?

I was hoping the second storm would fizzle out over the Atlantic - I am taking my cub pack for a hike and overnight hostel trip on Saturday, which will actually be my last event with them and the reason I delayed my departure for overseas an extra 3 weeks (it was reasonable to take 7 weeks to pack and move as most people get 4-5 months but this was a very unexpected move).

We can't get into the hostel until late afternoon as another group uses it on Friday. So I'm back into scenario planning for contingencies...

I hardly ever have the heating on because I can't bear the feel of it in the house - it makes me feel like I'm being suffocated. I use blankets and hot water bottles instead. When it gets really cold we'll have it on in the morning and a bit in the evening just to warm up the house, but only ever for about an hour at a time. I could never have it on while I was sleeping and I don't like it on when I wake up either. It's not even that I run particularly hot, I just don't like central heating, it makes my skin crawl.

It feels extremely mild in Bristol. I don't need a jacket when I go out which just feels very wrong for October!

@Thurlarder I'm the same. I invested in 2 proper woollen blankets like I used to have on the bed BD (Before Duvets). And I like a nice weight on me, so have added a weighted blanket to my selection of bedding, which helps me sleep on hot summer nights without making me too hot.

It's chilly now. My arthritis was shouting at me today. Radiators working hard. Feel sorry for all coping with the mess of flooding.

Fierce hail showers here this morning, S Wales. Anyone else?

Blue skies and beautiful here in the NW following torrential rain ending on Tuesday!

Just filled the grit bin, here (NE coast of England) chilly enough at 3 degrees this morning. Forecast for 1 degree tomorrow, and it's usually colder than they say. We also had frost / ice in October so I'm now winter ready.

Looked like winter this morning in Edinburgh. 0C and everything covered in frost

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weather/4941018-storm-debi storm Debi has been named.

I really wish they would use fiercer names. Debi is a nice girl, very quiet and thoughtful and doesnt have an aggressive or rambunctious bone in her body :/

@Pixiedust1234 I was talking to one of the Facilities managers at work sorting out a loca affected by the flooding in Northern Ireland. I mentioned that the next storm is Debi (wish they'd spelled it my way). His reaction was"oh God, that'll be trouble" 😆

😂😂

I guess he found the only rambunctious Debi

I'm so over the damp, showery weather we're getting in Hampshire.
I can usually keep on top of drying laundry on the line almost all year round, only using the tumble dryer a few times in Jan / Feb. But I think I'll need to use it this week as the backlog is dreadful. Where are the bright autumn days?

We were talking about that earlier and were struggling to remember when we last had a dry 24 hours.

Chucking it down in London yet again. Really hope we get a dry spell soon - this is ridiculous.

SE London borders and raining cats and dogs here.

The sky is leeking again in Wales 😭

It was sunny in Dublin this morning judging by photo of DDog that DH sent me...Brussels continues to live up to its grey and wet reputation!

I suspect it's the erstwhile polar ice caps. Raining down on us.

I can do without this unpredictability. I have a Beaver Scout campfire on Thursday which we already moved back 2 weeks because of Cíaran. The forecast is sunny tomorrow, horribly wet from 10-5 Thursday then sunny from 5 onwards. We start at 5:30. I think the weather has it in for my toasted marshmallows.

It's the Lumiere Festival here from Thur-Sun. Thankfully, the weather forecast looks hopeful. Fingers crossed!

Vaguely weather related Lumiere story:
There was an installation at the one before last which created the illusion of a whale in the River Wear. In the Summer, the festival organisers, being organised, came to Durham to suss everything out.

But the Lumiere Festival happens in November. So when they came to install the artworks, the Wear was somewhat fuller than when they had made their plans They needed to get something across the river - a cable or something. But now they couldn't do it in the way they had originally planned.

So they found a fly fisherman from somewhere, who could cast across the river

The whale illusion was excellent.
(Light projected onto water droplets, I think.)

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weather/4939015-winter-2023?reply=130837437 I've added some wintry thoughts to the winter thread.