The nights are quickly creeping up on us and nature is now getting that tired late summer look. It only means one thing: autumn is fast approaching. What are people's views this year?

My guess is that given the prolonged spell of predominantly dry weather this summer, and how many other hot and dry summers have met their demise, it wouldn't surprise me if at least one of the autumn months was notably wet this year. Somehow, I just get the hunch for a very Atlantic-dominated autumn...

Agree about one of the autumn months being wet6&wild but this thread is too early enjoy the last few weeks of summer.

Interesting. When the heat peaked in August (as in 1990, 1995 and 2003) the September was a let-down. But when the heat slackened in August (as in 1999 and 2006) there was a September recharge.

I thought September 2003 was quite warm? At least the pre-equinox part of it was.

I thought that it was a bit early to be starting an Autumn chat thread since we are still technically, in our meteorological summer which doesn't officially end until 31 August. However, Jerry in the above comment is right to say that autumn has arrived early in this part of the world.

This has after all, been the best example of a front-loaded summer which you can get in this part of the world. As far as this summer goes, June and the first half of July were really good with a lot of hot sunshine and temperatures even in this part of the world, getting not all that far short of 30°C on a couple of occasions.

In fact, I can remember that in his summer forecast video, Gavin P. (if Gavin P. is reading this, I hope that you get the problems with your phone line sorted out so that we can get back to getting some really good video content from you, as today hasn't been the same without that) predicted that this would be a front-loaded summer. For a while, it had looked as though this wouldn't end up being the case especially with the models continuing to point towards that really good weather carrying on, after we had got to the middle of July.

However, the second of July then ended up being wetter and more unsettled here. August has had one warm and dry spell within it, but even that period was duller than anything which we saw during the first half of the summer and August as a whole, has been a very poor month, especially during the last few days which have been absolutely horrendous in this part of the world. In the end, nature always balances itself out which means that we were always going to end up paying for the dry summer (and late spring) which we have had.

I believe that the last few days have just been the start of that process which I believe, will then carry on into the autumn. Because of that, it is difficult to see anything happening, other than a zonal, Atlantic dominated autumn with quite a lot of rain, and we can only hope that by the end of the autumn, some blocking will have at least, started to show a few signs of returning and thus, generating some hope for those of us who then want to be seeing a cold winter.

Looks like parts of Scotland got very close to a frost this morning. 2C at Kielder and 1C at Cairngorm Summit.

https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1033243325816438784

Cairngorm Summit 0.5C

Non-mountain stations

Kielder 2.1C at 0600 (N England)

Tyndrum 2.7C at 0700 (Scotland)

Eskdalemuir 3.1C (Wales)

Katesbridge 3.2C at 0700 (N Ireland)

Bournemouth Hurn 3.8C (S England)

Eskdalemuir reported a grass frost (-0C). Bournemouth Hurn reported a grass minimum of 0C (which means between 0.0C and 0.5C)

 Impressive low for Hurn. Eskdalemuir is Scotland