Are we going to have a mild Autumn

I thought they'd given up on long-range weather forecasts years ago because they were always so...wrong!

Has the BBC suddenly discovered a new way of predicting what's going to happen ten days from now, weather-wise?

I heard today on the BBC that they were going to give us the weather forecast for 10 days so that we can makes our plans accordingly. .

Well they frequently get the weather wrong just 24 hours ahead so how they will predict 10 days ahead is beyond me.

This morning the tree opposite my front garden was completely stripped of leaves by the wind. Blue sky, nice and warm, no clouds, but when I went outside it was raining a bit. That wind must be blowing it from the other side of the hills.

no granjura I live in the centre of east Anglia now, an area that frequently can't decide whether it is North or South, weatherwise. Years ago I lived on the border of Rutland and Lincolnshire.

Yes, the forecast looks vile. 20C here today again, the house holding steady at 25C but I suspect this will be the last week of that. Just as well, as the boiler pump has broken and the repair man comes tomorrow!

Have you seen the forecast for the rest of the weekend and the beginning of next week? 50mph gusts of wind. That being said it has been very mild for mid October here in west Northumberland. It was warmer outside Waitrose this morning than it was inside, they had the air conditioning on!!

Couple of mild but windy days here (15-16°C max) but it was colder before that with night time temps going down to 6 or 7. Apparently it's going to be even windier tonight. The Soops will be feeling it on the west coast of Kintyre.

Ooops Anno- you are beginning to repeat yourself a bit ;)
So sorry to hear you've been unwell, get better soon. A superb 22C yesterday and today + tomorrow- with snow forecast for Wednesday! Flipping Nora.

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Ooops Anno- you are beginning to repeat yourself a bit ;)
So sorry to hear you've been unwell, get better soon. A superb 22C yesterday and today + tomorrow- with snow forecast for Wednesday! Flipping Nora.

I really didn't mean to emphasise my point by posting 8 times! I was using the ctrl/enter means of posting and for some reason it decided, first, to make my post disappear and then reappear 8 times.

Yesterday, here in Cheshire the temp was in the upper teens, and at my sheltered back door my max/min thermometer registered 20. Still mild today and the central heating hasn't clicked on for several days.

Yesterday, here in Cheshire the temp was in the upper teens, and at my sheltered back door my max/min thermometer registered 20. Still mild today and the central heating hasn't clicked on for several days.

Yesterday, here in Cheshire the temp was in the upper teens, and at my sheltered back door my max/min thermometer registered 20. Still mild today and the central heating hasn't clicked on for several days.

Yesterday, here in Cheshire the temp was in the upper teens, and at my sheltered back door my max/min thermometer registered 20. Still mild today and the central heating hasn't clicked on for several days.

Yesterday, here in Cheshire the temp was in the upper teens, and at my sheltered back door my max/min thermometer registered 20. Still mild today and the central heating hasn't clicked on for several days.

Yesterday, here in Cheshire the temp was in the upper teens, and at my sheltered back door my max/min thermometer registered 20. Still mild today and the central heating hasn't clicked on for several days.

Yesterday, here in Cheshire the temp was in the upper teens, and at my sheltered back door my max/min thermometer registered 20. Still mild today and the central heating hasn't clicked on for several days.

Yesterday, here in Cheshire the temp was in the upper teens, and at my sheltered back door my max/min thermometer registered 20. Still mild today and the central heating hasn't clicked on for several days.

janerowena- are you still in the lovely county of Rutland- which we visit often?

When I was a baby, it was recommended for babies to be left to sleep outside, well wrapped up, in the freezing cold. And of course it was the treatment of choice in TB sanatoriums all over Switzerland. Much healthier than over-heated airless modern houses of today.

The cold here is very DRY, and so it just does not feel so cold- In the UK, it was the damp grey cold that really got through my bones (and soul). Just a different kind of cold- just like damp heat is so different to dry heat.

Its sure a mild Autumn here, lovely warm day today my raspberries are still fruiting and I've had doors and windows open all day, just closed them now as OH objects to Crane flies coming in.. no heating yet its way too warm.

It says the sea froze over in Southend!

No, I'm wrong, she was a bigger baby and it was the following year, with the lowest temperature being -23.3C, recorded in Rutland.

My daughter was a baby, so in late 1985 or early 1986, mid-Kent. I was cutting back a tree in the garden, she was in her pram. I thought it felt a bit chilly when I breathed in but she was wrapped up, and my neighbour came at me gibbering with rage at my bad mothering and shaking his thermometer at me! It was -22C the previous night and only -12C then, at midday.

Really? When was that?

Granjura! Yikes. -22C once in Kent was the lowest I have experienced.

Our local cold record is minus 42.8C ;)

As said, amazing 22C today- and ....

snow forecast for Wednesday- yiiiiikes.