Every September day has been 21c to 23c with no real rain during daylight hours. Today looks like another good one.
Met Office says thunderstorms tomorrow but it has said that for the last few days and nothing has happened.

The Met Office and BBC have mentioned thunderstorms so often for IMBY over the past few months but apart from some sporadic low wattage rumbles it's been a bit of a damp squib for these events this year. The ones forecast for last night were of the silent variety with invisible lightning as expected.  

 

The Met Office and BBC have mentioned thunderstorms so often for IMBY over the past few months but apart from some sporadic low wattage rumbles it's been a bit of a damp squib for these events this year. The ones forecast for last night were of the silent variety with invisible lightning as expected.  

 I thought you might be getting it your way as there were distant flashes to the west at around 10.30 p.m.. Nothing here apart from a couple of very heavy but short lived showers

 

 I thought you might be getting it your way as there were distant flashes to the west at around 10.30 p.m.. Nothing here apart from a couple of very heavy but short lived showers

There were thunderstorms in Dorset but I never saw any lightning or heard any thunder though I had a look out on a couple of occasions. The rain was useful, though having looked under some shrubs the soil is still dust. If we get perhaps 12inches between now and Christmas and another seven from the New Year to Spring, the aquifers should have a recharge. However, a proper winter flush of the underground chalk, where springs pop up in places they rarely do would satisfy me and Wessex Water. At the moment the chalk streams are so low here that flash rains overwhelming the sewage treatment works would result in an ecological disaster if untreated sewage enters these water systems. Perhaps the Water Companies should put out a press release along the lines of don't flush your WC in a thunderstorm to reduce the chances of this happening. 

Not a moan, but it’s still 70f here now. This summer has been relentless with heat. It’s not done yet

It's interesting how the weather can just change at the flick of a switch. Since Thursday, the prolonged warmth of the summer was abruptly turned off and it's felt decidedly autumnal ever since. Maxima in the mid-teens, some showers (especially today) and overnight lows in the single figures. We haven't really had weather like this since May.

For most of the hot dry season I've been struggling to do any gardening because  the ground has been like concrete - I've been unable to get a fork more than an inch into the ground.  Since we've changed to the wet season it's rarely stopped for long enough to spend more than the occasional day in the garden, and after last night's drenching the garden is sodden and the soil unworkable for the opposite reason. Blasted weather!  

It's interesting how the weather can just change at the flick of a switch. Since Thursday, the prolonged warmth of the summer was abruptly turned off and it's felt decidedly autumnal ever since. Maxima in the mid-teens, some showers (especially today) and overnight lows in the single figures. We haven't really had weather like this since May.

Yesterday (25th) was the first day this month with a maxima below the September average in my garden (and probably still above the average for late September)

I bet today pips that in the downwards stakes!

I dug my coat out for this morning; very chilly and (when I left) raining.

I bet today pips that in the downwards stakes!

I dug my coat out for this morning; very chilly and (when I left) raining.

 

Really amazed at how what rain has fallen here since pretty much last winter. The most recent frontal passage for example gave a whopping 0.5mm of rain. 

Yesterday (25th) was the first day this month with a maxima below the September average in my garden (and probably still above the average for late September)

Interesting as in my location every day since the 13th the mean temperature has been either average or a fair bit below average and it has felt very autumnal after the hot summer, if it wasn't for the very warm first 10 days or so this month would have been below average.

Absolutely hideous, deeply unpleasant horror cold spell to round off one of the worst ever Septembers. Even worse than the vile mid-month cold spell 

A totally worthless, revolting massive 21st Century slap in the face. It's just beyond a joke. Horrifically unpleasant cold, windy, showery, drizzly good-for-nothing days followed by barely below average nights where the temperature dips after sunset then flatlines the rest of the night. Hasn't even dropped below 5C at a time of year when we should be seeing the first ground frosts. Horrendous maxes of 10.5C on Monday and 11.1C yesterday and it doesn't even drop below 5.4C 

Even the grim mid-month spell, with 13C maxes, got down to 4.4C. This was the same level as was reached last September, which was the warmest on record and devoid of cold synoptics. So we are basically at the stage where cold spells are so useless that they can't produce any lower temperatures than a mild south westerly 

The inability to even get modest levels of cold in Autumn now is beyond surreal. Just one September since 2014 has got lower than the 3.0C which was recorded in August 2014.

Cold spell at the end of September 1974 saw air frosts recorded in the city and this pile of garbage can't even go below 5C - a value that was breached in the height of summer in July 2011. There are truly no words.

September 1918 had a mean min of 6C and mean max of 14C. It dropped to 0.6C on the 16th just half a mile from the coast. Yet in 17 years, 3 miles from the coast it has never got lower than 1.6C. Cold weather just never comes with clear skies and light winds any more. Never cold and crisp always cold and damp or cold and windy.

There hasn't been a properly cold September since 1993 which says it all. Every single September, which has had cold maxima since then, has also seen milder than average minima - the worst possible combination. Even 2001 which had a similar mean max to 1918 had above average minima. Ludicrous.

The second half of September has also turned out even more unsettled than the preposterously wet first half. Just three dry days, from the 19th to 21st , compared to five during the first half. Overall rain total the highest I have recorded in September by a huge margin and never remotely normal even in October until the abject horror of the 21st Century which has seen that month turn into a relentlessly soggy mild washout disaster year-in-year-out.

At the same time this September has been almost devoid of warmth, abysmally failing to reach a modest 20C. Hasn't been reached since 24th August which will make it the earliest last 20C I have recorded in 17 years, the previous earliest being 27th August 2017. The poor spring also failed to reach 20C, unlike 2017, so this year will have one of the shortest ever time between first and last 20C. Typical 21st Century bland nothingness with extremes squeezed at both ends.

Combined with the appallingly snowless and frost-free winter this adds up to another dire year of unmemorable bland 21st Century tripe 

As I write, we have a dull, boring and uninteresting start to today here in Edinburgh.

There was a brief spell of light rain during yesterday afternoon but this produced nothing more than 0.8 mm of rain at Edinburgh Gogarbank along with 0.6 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Although this month has been wetter than average overall in terms of the actual rainfall amounts, this is only due to a very wet first half of the month, and we have actually had very little in the way of recorded rainfall here since then.

This has now led to the situation where yesterday's totals have confirmed that it is now, no longer possible for the number of rain days during this month to be above average because with only today and tomorrow left as far as this month is concerned, time has now run out for the number of rain days during this month to be able to reach the 1991-2020 September average for that.

The bottom line here yet again, is that we just cannot get an extended wet period here which lasts for any length of time such as what is still needed in order for the overall rainfall deficit to be properly made up because no matter how wet it gets at any point in time, it always dries up again very soon afterwards which means that it just doesn't even seem possible any more for us to get a month which is wetter than average in terms of the number of rain days.

In addition to that, the 6z raw SYNOP data also shows that a total of just 18 minutes of sunshine was recorded for the whole of yesterday at Edinburgh Gogarbank and this means that regardless of what happens during today and tomorrow, this month will now go down as being duller than average overall as there isn't enough available daylight left to be able to bring this month's total up to the 1991-2020 September average.

This is no longer as big an issue as it was during the summer but even with that, August was our only sunnier than average month within a summer which was actually duller than average, and August is also still our only sunnier than average month since March which is very poor indeed.

Furthermore, this was supposed to be a cold spell of weather, yet it hasn't even been the least bit chilly here over the last few days. The maximum temperatures during that period have been no lower than around 14°C which isn't really all that much lower than what they were before we went into that so-called "cold" spell.

Furthermore, too much cloud and too much wind at night have resulted in the temperatures refusing to drop, so we have never even came close at any time to getting those ground frosts which we are supposed to get and even though we are now fast approaching the time of year when we should be starting to get our first air frosts of the season, we still haven't had a single ground frost at Edinburgh Gogarbank during this season so far.

To make matters worse, last night was milder than of late once again with a return to double figures minimum temperatures. When you add all of that up, it is easy to see from here that this so-called "cold" spell was just a complete non-event here.

I think Richard and John2016 should get together and spend a few months at Nuuk - Greenland's only inhabited town - where the weather there is often much more lively. Here's a small taste of what they could experience . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMs6LnT5mfk

We've not had a day like this in quite a long time (perhaps since about early April). Windy, and very wet, with the temperature barely scraping 11°C. Even for late September, that's quite cold for 16:00, and it really feels it in the wind, especially after the notably warm summer we've just had too.

Never seen this forum so dead. I see there isn’t even a current conditions thread for today 

No surprise really in the midst of an absolutely horrific spell with nothing of interest to the weather enthusiast yet again 

What the hell happened to all the variety of weather we used to get in October? Last of the summer warmth, first air frost, storms, gales, high pressure. All used to be the norm in October but now gone to be replaced by never ending coma-inducing soggy mild tedium 

It's just getting worse and worse. I thought the decade up to 2012 was bad enough but at least we had a good October in 2003, nice warm sunny weather in 2007, the excellent 2008, the interesting final third of 2010 and another interesting month in 2012.

What have we had since 2013? Utter crud pretty much every single year. Only 2018 has been remotely normal since then. The only one to record a frost and one of the few to have any real warmth.

One October with a frost in 10 years is surreal when it used to occur most years. The lack of warmth is just as bad. Average October monthly high was 18.2C before 1974 and 20C was not uncommon. It's now dropped to 17.4C and that's now three in four that hasn't even reached that. 20C almost unheard of and I failed to record 15C in both 2019 and 2020 which is shocking. These months set a record for lowest maximum across consecutive Octobers at Dyce - with records since the 1940s.

Single figure maxes used to be expected probably on as much as a third of all days but now there's barely more than a couple all month.

These are the daily maxima I've recorded since the 9th

12.5, 12.4, 12.8,14.8, 13.2, 12.6, 11.2, 13.1, 12.8, 12.8, 9.9,11.8,12.3  

Is there anywhere outside the tropics that would record such a string of unvaried nothingness? There is even 3 days of the exact same temperature to 1 decimal place. I despise this. If the weather had been so tediously unvaried and predictable 30 years ago I would never have become interested in it.

It barely dropped below yesterday’s max overnight, with an absolutely disgusting min of 11.9C - more than 6C above average. We should be seeing air frost in October not double digit minima. Yet today’s max, under soul destroying murk, will just be more crap in line with the monotony listed above. How scintillating it would be were it to reach 12.8C again 

Wouldn’t be out of the realms of possibility to see warmer day temperatures under a cold high pressure set-up with frost but fat chance of actually getting that these days 

Never seen this forum so dead. I see there isn’t even a current conditions thread for today 

No surprise really in the midst of an absolutely horrific spell with nothing of interest to the weather enthusiast yet again 

What the hell happened to all the variety of weather we used to get in October? Last of the summer warmth, first air frost, storms, gales, high pressure. All used to be the norm in October but now gone to be replaced by never ending coma-inducing soggy mild tedium 

It's just getting worse and worse. I thought the decade up to 2012 was bad enough but at least we had a good October in 2003, nice warm sunny weather in 2007, the excellent 2008, the interesting final third of 2010 and another interesting month in 2012.

What have we had since 2013? Utter crud pretty much every single year. Only 2018 has been remotely normal since then. The only one to record a frost and one of the few to have any real warmth.

One October with a frost in 10 years is surreal when it used to occur most years. The lack of warmth is just as bad. Average October monthly high was 18.2C before 1974 and 20C was not uncommon. It's now dropped to 17.4C and that's now three in four that hasn't even reached that. 20C almost unheard of and I failed to record 15C in both 2019 and 2020 which is shocking. These months set a record for lowest maximum across consecutive Octobers at Dyce - with records since the 1940s.

Single figure maxes used to be expected probably on as much as a third of all days but now there's barely more than a couple all month.

These are the daily maxima I've recorded since the 9th

12.5, 12.4, 12.8,14.8, 13.2, 12.6, 11.2, 13.1, 12.8, 12.8, 9.9,11.8,12.3  

Is there anywhere outside the tropics that would record such a string of unvaried nothingness? There is even 3 days of the exact same temperature to 1 decimal place. I despise this. If the weather had been so tediously unvaried and predictable 30 years ago I would never have become interested in it.

It barely dropped below yesterday’s max overnight, with an absolutely disgusting min of 11.9C - more than 6C above average. We should be seeing air frost in October not double digit minima. Yet today’s max, under soul destroying murk, will just be more crap in line with the monotony listed above. How scintillating it would be were it to reach 12.8C again 

Wouldn’t be out of the realms of possibility to see warmer day temperatures under a cold high pressure set-up with frost but fat chance of actually getting that these days 

You should know now UK is becoming more temperate zone more noticable started from mid August after a heatwave to now temps as been very same levels despite nights now more longer.   -2 was normal average air frost for October when I had weather data from 1990 to 2012.  I remember first -2C in October 1990 follow by pleasant 15C sunny day and a week earlier was 24C which I cut grass after my college lesson. 21 to 23C was normal highs to normal lows of -2C in Oct before now more temperate and dead boring.