Autumn has come early this year

Drizzle and gloom here in N Surrey. We have 2 large horsechestnuts in the garden and thr conkers are falling now which is very early. The leaves are shrivelled and yellow but that's because we have the leaf miner moth problem so not unusual. But the conkers are early.
I have bought and will buy more 100W LED bulbs to lighten indoors up. The eye drops I am using contract the pupils so everything is much darkeŕ anyway without this weather.

I get up in the night for a pee. It was still dark but when I came back to bed I noticed it was nearly six o clock- almost time to get up!

I noticed the leaves falling a couple days ago and some signs of yellowing on plants in the garden. Time to go and get some conkers then, that's usually an October task. I think the months have shifted about 4 weeks in advance of where they used to be weather wise. We get earlier signs of Spring too.
Nights have certainly drawn in quickly.

It's been wet here in Dorset the last few days but it's not cold, still have windows open and not needed to put the duvet back on the bed yet.

I wore a jumper two days ago and then shorts and tee yesterday.

It is interesting reading the weather variations. We seem to have sat in a pocket in East Anglia of warm weather. We have had the odd chilly day but really very little rain since the beginning of August. Yesterday was 27 degrees in the afternoon. It was a warm muggy night. Looks like this week will be more autumnal 🍁🍂

I wonder who will be first to turn the CH on. Our CH is controlled by the thermostat, no off/on switch, which is set at 18.5 degrees, and never touched. So far the internal temperature is still in the 20s, although sometimes as low as 15-16 outside. I wait to see until the temperature sinks to 18 degrees indoors and the hetaing automatically comes on.

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It is interesting reading the weather variations. We seem to have sat in a pocket in East Anglia of warm weather. We have had the odd chilly day but really very little rain since the beginning of August. Yesterday was 27 degrees in the afternoon. It was a warm muggy night. Looks like this week will be more autumnal 🍁🍂

It is interesting to read of various weather, we're warm and dusty. We're still using aircon, humidity makes it muggy at night - difficult to sleep.

Here in the south it’s been a sunless summer, days on end of cloud and gloom. I’m surprised to see leaves turning already as the trees have had so little sun to store energy.
I’ve seen hardly any butterflies, house flies or wasps. No birds nesting in my big hedge, no hedgehogs, slow worms or toads.
The hedgerows are wildly overgrown with the wet winter and spring.
I wonder how long it will take the wildlife to recover from the wettest year I ever remember?

I was saying the same to our sons. This week was the first time that I didn't have to trim the hedging around my garden, it had just stopped growing, I usually have to trim it every three weeks until the end of October. Our lilac tree is also losing it's leaves. It is going to be a long, long winter.

I also have not turned on my Central Heating. It is still warm in my house and outside even though it has been raining again with some windy days.

Into winter nightdresses last night.

Winter duvet on, central heating has clicked on two mornings this week and it seemed more like November on Friday.
Autumn has definitely swept in here in south Glos, the trees in the woodland behind us are rapidly changing colour.

I feel as if we're living under a permanent rain cloud here.

We live in a wooded area too and I did comment a week ago that some of the trees are getting a tinge of autumn.

It's quite chilly too, I'm going to have to order a new winter dressing gown, my old one is only fit for the rag bag.

It’s been cold and very wet for the last few days.
My husband got up this morning and said has going to put away all the garden furniture, may as well, we haven’t used it very much at all.
I was hoping for a nice September, but it’s not off to a very good start

Depressing grey mist and rain today. Trying to be positive. Taking my Vit D for the sunshine effect.
Summer is, I suppose, a state of mind. It is still warm...

Very lucky here in N Suffolk to have had some glorious days, although a quick shower on Tuesday. I’ve been out with the hose as the soil is so dry. The sky is blue now but showers forecast.

Here's a reminder of what autumn should be like (who did not learn this poem at school?)

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.

We've had no fruit on the plum or apple trees, the raspberries and strawberries have been practically non-existent and we didn't plant any gourds.

However, the pigeons are enjoying the grapes and the squirrel might start burying hazel nuts in my garden pots very soon.

Is it really that early though? I can remember many years in the past when the weather often changed just as my children went back to school.
I had been hoping the girls would be able to return in their summer uniform dresses but it often wasn’t to be.

Here in the south, we’ve had a pretty good summer. June was wet but my husband has been out with the hose watering plants quite a few evenings during the rest of the summer.
We’ve also had some oppressively hot days.

In South west Northumberland we've had a very indifferent summer. There have been odd warm sunny days, I have managed to wear a summer dress about 3 times, the rest of the time it's been trousers and a sweater to match the cool, dull rainy weather.
I long for a week of continuous sunshine.

It’s a bit early to swap from summer to winter wardrobes, but I know for sure there’s a lot of summer stuff I haven’t worn at all this year, every day is a jumper day

The last three days, including today, have been the warmest days we've had since May. Yes, autumn has started – leaf fall from birches started a few weeks ago, as it usually does here in west Scotland.

Autumn for sure but we usually get an “Indian Summer” sometime in September. Then it’s all downhill to winter, and dare I say it Christmas.

Considering that we live in a tiny country, it’s astonishing how much our weather varies, particularly between north and south.
There have been several comments throughout the summer from posters up north, and particularly Scotland I guess, who have had their heating on at times.
If I had felt cold I would certainly have put ours on but it hasn’t been anywhere near cold enough for that here.

It is a beautiful sunny day here in Berkshire and I am getting hot sitting out in the garden. It hasn’t been a bad summer with lots of watering needed to keep the ground moderately moist. The main hint of autumn is that the blackberries have almost disappeared. They were prolific in late July and all through August.

We’ve just had rumbles of thunder and some rain in S Hants, warmer though at 19.