So anyone else had this problem with silverfish? What have you don't to prevent silverfish from occurring in bathtubs or sinks? It's humidity they like apparently!!

Thanks Roger :)

Glad it's not just an Exeter Quay problem! It is nationwide and even world wide too!! Ireland get's them more! Apparently they are Nocturnal too!! - Whenever I turn lights on at night they run and hide haha! -Even in Kitchen too!  Hope some cold, clear and crisp nights will kill these bugs and slugs! 

This has been yet another ghastly autumn. I was hoping the dry summer would lead to good autumn displays this year, as happened in 2003, but the tree colour is the absolute pits once again due to an inordinate amount of disgusting double digit mins, lack of frost and endless wind. Doesn’t look like we’ll even see a late show in November this year as the trees are much barer than at the same stage of the past few autumns and any colour left is most certainly not impressive. Greens and subdued yellow/brown colour.

The current spell is just horrible. Repulsively wet and windy. The most lame and embarrassing excuse for a cold spell ever witnessed at the time of year.  The temperature has fallen no lower than +1.1C with most nights around 3C  The lowest temperature this month has been a pitiful +0.9C and that was recorded way back on the 7th. May this year produced -1.5C despite being the warmest on record. That puts this pile of tripe into perspective.

Due to the endless vile wind, frost is now a near impossibility in October and hard frost a near impossibility in winter. It’s been six years now without an October frost. That is just unreal and so far beyond anything ever recorded that it’s off the scale. If the coldest possible synoptic set-up accompanied by very cold upper air can’t deliver the first frost, at a time of year later than used to be the norm, then what will?

There is absolutely nothing to enjoy about autumn/winter here any more. Just mild windy rubbish alternating with cold windy rubbish and barely any frost or snow. An endless cycle of complete and utter garbage

There is only one Richard of Aberdeen.  Beware of cheap fake imitations. Richard is back on form here.  I particularly appreciate the last line.

I just assumed he copied and pasted any one of his previous 'rants'.

This autumn has been pretty OK so far, a mix of a bit of everything. Had my car frosted up 5 times in a morning, which is unusual for this time of year. Was at Alton Towers on Sunday and it was freezing (it snowed there on the Saturday, apparently). At half-8 last night the car thermometer was reading -1.5c.

Halloween itself is likely to be dry and coolish, as is Bonfire Night - which is nice.

No sign of any  

Shame about the forecast for tomorrow evening. I was hoping it was going totally p*ss it down to keep the neighbour's annoying little bleeders away from my front door.

Last night's forecast for these parts promised a decent frost. They even said that it would get down to -5°C in a few places with even the big towns and cities getting down to freezing or below. Indeed after looking at today's Current Conditions thread on this forum, it would appear as though everyone else has had that frost.

The conditions for that to happen here should have been ideal. The skies were clear with very little wind which at this time of year is the perfect recipe for frost to form. What happened instead though, is that the temperatures just would not drop despite the conditions being ideal for that to happen, so I have no idea what actually caused that to be the case. The temperature did briefly get down to 0°C at Edinburgh Airport at around 11pm last night, but then went back up again. At my other local stations, the temperature got no lower than 2.2°C at Edinburgh Gogarbank (that happened only briefly at around 4am this morning and so, the temperature there was always above 3°C apart from that) and 2.4°C at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh. Furthermore, I don't even see any ground frost around here.

I have to say that as a result of that, it feels as though we have been very badly let down and swindled in these parts by the official forecasts because of that, and this also makes me wonder why on Earth, we can't just get the same weather here as everyone else for a change because if that did happen, I would then have no reason to refer to our weather as being boring for most of the time, or to the location where I am as being one of the most boring parts of the UK when it comes to our weather.

10c , clear and light winds. 12c in places.

Much nicer day than tomorrow when the supposed mild air arrives along with cloud and wind.

I wish that I could get to say that it was a lovely day here as well.

Up until about an hour or so ago, it was a lovely day with plenty of unbroken sunshine. Just like the thing though and perhaps not surprisingly, it has now clouded over which means that we're now back to yet more constant grey skies and yet another boring overcast and grey nothingness which means I can't even get to have that in common with everyone else now.

It seems our climates have been swapped. Another moderate frost here overnight last night which continued the run of the unusual amount of frosts occurring this Autumn so far in this neck of the woods. 

Curiously though, I have not seen any fog this Autumn so far. Usually by this stage we would have had a couple of days with thick fog lingering well into afternoon, if not the whole day. But nothing so far this time around (even by night) which is strange, given the lack of any substantial breeze that has been a notable feature of this Autumn so far. 

We had one very misty morning recently, CP - when a friend was out for an early morning walk. As the mist rose it revealed lots of sheep legs, their bodies still hidden in the mist, so it looked like some strange white millipede..... A splendid image. R.

I was picturing that image as you described it. Would have made for a surreal and awesome sight! 

Certainly seems like that. Used to be the east that got the coldest temperatures now it's always the west. The most notable cold in December 2010 was in Northern Ireland and last week parts of Wales were colder even than inland Aberdeenshire

Today is just utterly revolting. Totally repellent grey, dank and drizzly filth. Worst of all is that ridiculous wind which never lets up any more. Yet again we see mild air arriving on S or SE winds which, with no mountains to break up the gloom, gives totally different conditions to W or SW winds which used to be the standard directions associated with mild air.

November is a grim month to endure at the best of times and this month is looking as bad as it gets. Reminiscent of the diabolical horror show of November 2011. Week ahead looks just wrist-slittingly awful with permacast gloom, day temperatures only slightly above average with horrifically mild nights barely out of double figures. In other words the typical 21st century October muck spreading into November, which had in recent years been a much better month. Only 2011 and 2014 have been bad Novembers this decade and both were at the extreme end of awful.

This weather is soo boring for the next 2 weeks! Charts look boring too - no sign of anything cold and wintry, little if any frost!? HP to the SE and East and LP to the west and we get stuck in the middle in no man's land - just southerly winds. Wouldn't surprise me if this turned out to be a really warm November plus central and eastern Europe temps by day are still in their late teens - Warsaw, 18c, Berlin 16c, Krakow, 18c and Budapest 20c. Temps are some 10-15c above normal and this pattern has been going on for a really long time now. Last week my parents were in Budapest at a 4* Hotel - it was 19-21c outside by day with sun and they had the central heating on - their air con was not on at hotel it's like it stops around early October time. Hope there is no central heating on there next week if it's going to stay so warm!!!!

No words could do justice as to how revolting and undesirable this current set-up is. Like living inside a giant sponge or more accurately like being in a coma inside a giant sponge.

The sort of soul destroying garbage you would expect during late autumn and winter in coastal areas of Cornwall or the Scilly Isles. Murky, grey, sunless,windy, static temperatures. Constant drizzle/light rain/dampness that amounts to almost nothing and is so pathetic it’s not even showing on the radar most of the time.

Simply vile and intolerable with relentless S/SE winds forecast to pump this stinking filth over us the entire week. It’s not dropped below 8.8C since Saturday morning but at the same time day temperatures are barely any higher than average at 10-12C.  Today's diurnal range was 1.3C and it looks set to become even more abhorrent​ with temperatures forecast to remain above 12C, Tuesday night into Wednesday, then reach the dizzy heights of 13C during the day

On both the pleasant scale and interesting scale this weather scores precisely 0.0. It is totally worthless and pointless. Even SE’ly gales delivering 25+mm rain totals would be preferable to this **

Okay, NOW I'm bored of this winter as I am struggling to sleep as I can "feel" the house "humming" in the wind. Seriously, what IS it with gale force southerly winds and night time? 

Twas ever thus - from 1844

http://www.oatridge.co.uk/poems/t/thomas-hood-november.php

No sun - no moon! 
No morn - no noon - 
No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day - 
No sky - no earthly view - 
No distance looking blue - 
No road - no street - no 't'other side the way' - 
No end to any Row - 
No indications where the Crescents go - 
No top to any steeple - 
No recognitions of familiar people - 
No courtesies for showing 'em - 
No knowing 'em - 
No travelling at all - no locomotion, 
No inkling of the way - no notion - 
'No go' - by land or ocean - 
No mail - no post - 
No news from any foreign coast - 
No Park - no Ring - no afternoon gentility - 
No company - no nobility - 
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, 
No comfortable feel in any member - 
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, 
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, - 
November!

I've always thought that poem was more than a little harsh on poor November. Like any month it can have it's good days and although it's difficult to make comparisons year to year, I think the leaves are particualy stunning this year.

Shame it didn't include "no wasps"... had one causing a kerfuffle in the office yesterday, not fun!

Some decent frosts would be most welcome right now.

Climate change? In Hood's day the leaves might well have been off by November. I reckoned when we moved to Kent on 1976, I could always clear up leaves by the end of half term; when we left in 2002 it was always a week later

Still plenty of leaves on the trees in this part of Kent - two weeks on from the end of half-term.

Incidentally, having been out mowing the lawn it turns out that a rotary mower is ideal for sucking up the leaves off the grass!

Yes, my mower doubles up quite nicely as a leaf hoover! Bit wet to cut the grass today, though. 

I enjoy the odd spell of autumnal cold & wet. Makes it nice to wrap up and get that cosy feeling when the rain lashes against the window. Rather have it like this than 15c and wet from a westerly.

I'd soon get sick of it if it happened for a period of time, though.

I know this is the moaning thread, but I think this autumn's been alright, with a bit of everything.