A new season...off we go. 

What a gorgeous start to Autumn! I shall be checking the colours of the hedgerows on our "Road trip" to Plymouth (& back) today, whilst dropping the youngest back off at Uni!

There's actually already an Autumn General Chat thread which was created by Bolty on 13 August 2018, and which can be found here (if that thread wasn't already there, I would have created it myself whilst creating all of the other usual threads) and is currently on page 3 of the default list of threads on this forum.

Would be therefore be possible for a Mod to therefore, merge these two threads so that we don't therefore have two threads running on the exact same subject?

Autumn is off to a fine start. 100% maximum sunshine so far and not a drop of rain. 

Into the second month of autumn here and it has been cloudy so far 

Hi WW;

Aside from the horse-chestnuts, sadly still suffering from numerous fungi and parasites, most of the foliage hear is stillin full summer green, despite the drought which temporarily tricked some species into shedding.

A few cherry leaves have gone red, some lime (tilia) have a few yellow but mainly, locally, there are no colour clues about autumn. even the early-turning acers have retained their colour thus far.

Keep us posted about the hedgerow colours.

It may be, jcs2016, that posters weren't ready to submit to autumn that early, although I understand that in the N of the UK, it has felt somewhat different.

I agree with that, and I did say in that original thread at the time, that it was probably too early to starting such a thread since we still had over two weeks of the summer still to go at that time.

Nevertheless, we have this thread now so it is probably now a good idea to go with that although there was a few people who did post into Bolty's original thread so it is a shame to see that one being lost altogether.

Media having a field day.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6123675/Brace-BBQ-autumn.html

Liked the Ventusky app for android.

Hi Bertie,

the horse chestniuts definitely look the worse for wear & the majprity at this end of the country have brown fringed leaves, however the further west we got, the healthier they looked. Most of the tree's have started taking on that less vibrant green colour though & the silver birch have started to take on a yellow tinge. The hawthorns have a huge amount of berries on this year, it was very red in some parts where they grow thickly, I can't say I recall seeing so many in recent years, & the Eldeberry's were also weighting many a tree down in their abundance, however in stark contrast, I noted that any apple tree's spotted had few apples on them & they were very small!

We only saw a few spots of rain on the jouney too, for the most part is was sunny & dry but a very tiring trip!

My daughters room this year, has an amazing view to the harbour & will be great for "cloud watching" from the bed when any storms roll in, lucky girl & yes I am a little envious.

The same goes for how you can get extremely mild, sometimes double figure nights in December, yet any hint of clear skies in March will almost always guarantee a frost by morning.

I was down in Surrey yesterday and, on the drive back, noticed the leaves were really starting to turn on certain tree species. In the sun it looked really nice.

Also noticed the thermometer in the car dropping as I went north during the afternoon (23c in the SE, down to 20c by Cheshire/Merseyside at 4.30'ish)

I noticed some leaves changing too but it seems far too early for that - usually we don't get any sign of change until the end of September and even then it's muted. I was walking back from Sainsbury's yesterday and took a shortcut through a wooded area, the entire ground around the trees was covered in dead crispy leaves. It looked like November! It's only certain trees though.

Some were showing signs of change in July though due to stress.

I think it is likely a stress-related issue, and like I said, it was only certain species of tree. My Japanese Acers both had a leaf shed at the height of the heatwave up here and they're both in the ground with established roots. None of my other trees did the same

When the sun is out there's still some heat in it though.

By mid-September it's only got similar power to start of April so not surprising the chill is descending.

If we get warmer days from now on it's often due to air sourced from tropics and humidity is through the roof, not exactly pleasant.

Indeed, and think high, humid mins during the last quart of the year are largely down to the SSTs, which are usually at their highest during this period. 

Very "meh" weather at the moment. Cloudy, breezy, a bit of rain at times, but not much else really happening. Looks like it's staying that way for most of this week...

With temps still typically hitting low 20's at this time of year during settled weather (settled weather is normal in early september) it's hard to imagine that autumn is just around the corner! It's seems so far away and yet within 3 weeks/ 21 days trees will be dropping leafs like a DJ drops beats, the night's will draw in much quicker, and the sun will begin to feel weak.

Its still light at around 8pm at the moment but we're fast loosing daylight.

Today the sun will set 19.17 but by Wednesday it will set 19.10 - seven minutes in 4 days. Thankfully twilight lingers still for a while after sunset.

We drove through Clumber Park yesterday and the trees still look pretty much the same as they did in Summer. Some have brown leaves and there are lots of brown leaves on the ground, due to the summer heat and drought.  So it doesn’t look Autumnal yet but day length and the occasional nip in the air suggests it is Autumn!  

Good place, Clumber Park, Caz. It is one of our family meet-up places within reach of York, Lincoln and Nottingham.

Roger

Going to be a shock coming back to Edinburgh on 28th!