Starting to feel a bit more autumnal now. Dare we think summer is finally over?
It's odd how different we view things (perhaps geographical location in this instance), but I was commenting the other day how suddenly we flipped from summer to autumn in early/mid-September.
Not with the temperature, i grant you (although August was often very warm/hot and September might have been above-average, but not what you'd call even warm, especially in comparison to August), but more in terms of rain.
It's just seemed to rain with annoying frequency since about mid-Sept.
The Met Office map fopr October shows this neck of the woods had between 20 and 25 days with *some* rain. Further north, the western strip of NW England and Scotland (along with West Wales) had 25+ days.
For September, it was the area covering NE Wales/Cheshire/Merseyside that had anomalously high number of rain days (and I suspect most were in the latter two-thirds of the month)
So from a 'dull, wet and miserable' perspective, IMBY, it was a sudden and jarring pivot into a poor autumn. Against that backdrop, temps being a couple of degrees higher than average doesn't do a thing to lift the mood.
Martin
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