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Are we going to have a mild Autumn

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pompa Fri 17-Oct-14 19:11:15

Just had fruit & jelly for desert. All the fruit was from the garden today, raspberries, figs and alpine strawberries. We had fruit late last year,looks like this year may be the same still more of everything to come, so long as we don't get a frost we could be picking until Christmas.

tanith Sat 18-Oct-14 18:38:08

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.

granjura Sat 18-Oct-14 19:14:47

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.

annodomini Sat 18-Oct-14 19:31:58

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.

annodomini Sat 18-Oct-14 19:31:58

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.

annodomini Sat 18-Oct-14 19:31:58

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.

annodomini Sat 18-Oct-14 19:31:58

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.

annodomini Sat 18-Oct-14 19:31:58

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.

annodomini Sat 18-Oct-14 19:31:58

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.

annodomini Sat 18-Oct-14 19:31:58

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.

annodomini Sat 18-Oct-14 19:31:58

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.

annodomini Sat 18-Oct-14 19:34:21

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.

granjura Sat 18-Oct-14 19:52:59

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.

granjura Sat 18-Oct-14 19:55:27

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.

Enter function playing up here too- lost another message earlier- and now enter not working!

thatbags Sat 18-Oct-14 20:14:33

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.

hildajenniJ Sat 18-Oct-14 20:28:09

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!!

janerowena Sun 19-Oct-14 14:41:19

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!

durhamjen Sun 19-Oct-14 15:44:19

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.

NanKate Sun 19-Oct-14 22:43:23

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. hmm .

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

Ana Sun 19-Oct-14 22:47:31

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? confused