Autumn has come early this year

My Kilmarnock willow is looking very sorry for itself. Started turning in late August. Never known it turn so early.

I walk my dog through the local woods every morning and the leaves have been falling from the trees for at least 2 weeks now and there are conkers everywhere. We used to collect conkers in October.
Forecast is colder weather coming. Was there a summer or did I blink and miss it.

If there's an Indian Summer it must be in India!

I think we were fairly lucky here with the summer, the SW is usually relatively rainy but july & august we had v little rain during the day. I'm surprised by the trees though, definite autumn colour on some round here & it does seem very sudden & early. Squirrels dashing about too. I wouldn't be surprised if we get a warm couple of weeks later on though.

Summer came late, very late and autumn weather is with us too early. . Grey and wet today in outer London, most of the week but something to look forward to, Saturday week is forecast sunny. 😎
A squeezed summer indeed.

Lots of squirrels in the garden and broken hazelnuts everywhere.

The equinox ought to be the middle of a season, not its start because that is when the mid vallue is set.

The winter equinox, December 21 is the shortest daylight of the year and the point where the world starts tipping back and days get longer. So autumn runs from mid-August to mid November. So Autumn is not early ths year!

Lots of squirrels in our garden. Come for the acorns I expect

I resist thinking of autumn until the equinox which I think is end of next week. No sign of squirrels yet in the garden. This summer has been reminiscent of the wet summers of my childhood in the 50s.

Lovely sunshine here in the Midlands.

Tidying in the garden today, lots of colour still, the Magnolia is flowering again, it’s a strange year

We had thunder in the night. Today is quite warm, although distinctly autumnal.

I have spent the morning digging up the potato patch. Not much to show for it this year, but if the farmers are saying it is a bad year for potatoes, I could hardly expect to buck the trend.

Our drive is already covered in acorns, something that normally doesn't happen till mid September, followed by weeks of leaves descending on us.

I was saying to someone a few days ago that our weather is getting almost tropical, weeks of no rain followed by a thunderstorm and downpour. For the second time in a month we've had thunder and lightening for three days running, and raining stair rods for hours. We've had a fair bit of sun this Summer, but little heat apart from about 5 days.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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

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.

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.