Should be dry until at least late afternoon. Met Office online forecast has been moving the arrival time of the main rain band between about 7pm and 10pm with 'outrider' patches of drizzle. (currently shows increasing chance of rain from around 6pm; main band to hit 8-9pm) BBC was, until today, showing higher chance of light rain from much earlier, but has more or less swung into line with the Met Office.

Could do with the rain holding off until 9pm, as riding the coasters in the dark is one of the highlights of the visit, and the atmosphere of the park in general is fantastic at night.

Gloomy, wet and murky beyond belief. Zero sign of anything remotely above average except at night with more sickeningly vile minimum temperatures barely any different to maxima. Barely any sun, on the majority of days, so heating needed all the time. I really feel for the pensioners who can't afford to heat their homes because the worst government in history has stolen their winter heating allowance to give to the most undeserving in society instead.

Almost every single day now for four weeks has seen below average maxima. Just a few days at the start of the month that brought near average highs of 13-14C. Today reached the average of 12C for the first time in 10 days but it feels even colder due to the disgusting weather.  Even Sunday which was the coldest day in the first half of October since 1994, despite being sunny in the morning, felt warmer than this filth.

13 completely sunless days already this autumn with the traditionally worst half still to come although it's hard to imagine how things could be much worse than what's been endured so far.

It has always been a challenge to get decent weather at this time of year, and I can rarely remember anything good during the October holiday week in my childhood, but this is just a whole different level of abhorrent, unpleasant and totally unusable crap.

It's actually worse than last October despite being nowhere near as wet. At least we had some warm, sunny and dry weather and also managed a frost, none of which has been , or is likely to be, achieved this month. 2023 also had 13 dry days in total whereas there has been just one in the last 11 now. Can't even get a single dry hour now when the wind is blowing from the SE - the worst possible quarter for the wind to come from.

Strange as there no 30 plus heatwave since August?  Those temperatures this month are fine for sleeping unless you have sleeping issue? perhaps to see a doctor to fnd out?   My fan upstairs had been off since last cloudy warm spell in August in my bedroom.  18-20c now day or night so sleeping no issue.

One thing I am pleased to see the trees going yellow right in mid October than late November to earliy December in recent years so hope we get a correct winter season and correct Spring this time.  

Bedroom has been 19-22C overnight range lately, combined with the high dew points & warm overnight temperatures we've had recently, and this has led to the need of a fan. 

We've seen DP's 18.5C

Overnight lows of 16C

Didn't get the good day that was forecast yesterday either as the best part of the day was completely ruined by a mass of unforecast grot pumping up from the south to block out the sun. That's basically all October consists of nowadays - crap from the south or south east.

Haven't had a westerly October since 2008 and it's no coincidence there hasn't been a good one since then either.

Every single weekend is a mix of uninspiring and unusable. Can't believe there could be anywhere worse to live on the planet. A soul detroying wrist slittingly awful horror show played out constantly for the past two years. 

An extreme Weekend Curse present, almost constantly, that keeps getting worse and worse. This vile season is on track to be the worst I've ever recorded for the Weekend Curse with just 56% sun for weekends compared to weekdays. The current record is 61% held by the infamously rancid and revolting Summer 2007.

Autumn 2014 was the dullest since 1968 yet just half way through this repugnant decade will have prodiced two autumns with even duller weekends. It's just grim, depressing and unbearable beyond belief.

That’s odd because the forecast for here was mostly cloudy with patchy rain clearing later, and that’s pretty much what we got.  A lovely late afternoon as the clearance arrived from the west.

But it is not yet Halloween, Saint! All Hallows' Eve is the 31st. All else is invented bollocks to sell you meaningless junk. The shelves of the local Co-op are loaded with pointless pumpkins. None of this crap matters except to milk us of our cash.

A bit like having Hot Cross buns on sale alongside mince pies and Christmas cake in October…. 

Read my post in the Forum Arms 😉

Besides, we put our Xmas tree up the beginning of December, and partake in as many Xmas events as we can throughout December.

The build-up to a 'special day' is a big (the biggest?) part of the fun!!

Funny you should say that on the day I made my Christmas cake, so it can be well fed with plenty of booze before decorating, as well as making a batch of fruit buns (my husbands favourite), which is the same recipe I use for hot cross buns, only this time round I made them with Saffron (Cornish roots). Just proving this is possible! But at least I didn't buy them ready done, so there's that I guess.

I've already made my mincemeat, 2 weeks ago.I have to admit this is the first year I have been this far ahead and it's where I have always strived to be so I'm quietly pleased with myself. 😉😊😁

I've done the pumpkin carving in the past, when our tribe was very much younger but not really been on board with the over decorating or getting dressed up. Let alone the "trick or treating" that was never encouraged in our house but I have and do have a small bowl of sweets on hand if there's any callers but we used to live on a busy main road so never really had many come knock there. Not sure about here, where we've moved to but we'll get some sweets in just in case, to be neighbourly.

So far autumn here has been wonderfully Autumn like with some rain, some sun and some misty mornings.

Still, it's the three worst months of the year for me after this. I hate November, it's just a dark, miserable month with the prospect of 3 months of rubbish in front. Roll on February!

Good isn't it? Longer that eats into this Autumn, the better. But I'm sure we'll pay the price for it with a wet and wild December, January or/and February.

Absolutely.

Regionally, we have just had an above average wet October, 245% the long term average rainfall for September, and 153% the LTA over the past 6 months! And to boot we havn't had any notable spells of weather all year, so i'll take calm and dry in whatever form it comes.

The last extended dry and calm period i can remember was prior to the 15month monsoon that started in July 2023.