Whats going on with the weather this autumn?

[Garden Manager]

Is it me or are we getting an unusual amount of storms this autumn? Seems to me as if not a week goes by without a dose of strong wind and heavy rain. Sometimes more than once a week. Dry sunny days are an apparent rarity (grab 'em and make the most while you can sort of thing).

My garden is on a slope with the lowest point by the house. This area just never seems to dry out at the moment.

Do others feel the weather has gone bit mad, are you having trouble getting all the autumn jobs done in your garden or allotment because of the wet?

[Garden Manager]

[Plocket]

Hum. Personally I think it's fairly normal for autumn - I always think that autumn is either one extreme or the other, either wet and windy, or bright and sunny. Look at today for example - it's been glorious. Bet it rains tomorrow though!!!

[Robert_Brenchley]

It's been nothing like 1979. We'd just moved to Cornwall, we were at 600 feet on the moors, with builders in and all the windows out. It blew gale force or stronger for three weeks non-stop, then we got the worst storm since 1892. 120mph in the gusts at sea level, and I dread to think what it was up where we were. The whole house was shaking, and the walls were two feet of solid granite.

[busy_lizzie]

Was my wedding anniversary yesterday, 35 years!  All those many years ago on that day, I remember it was cold and windy and we had some light falls of snow. It was much colder than today, that's for sure.  At the moment we still have roses coming out in the garden and our hollyhocks at the allotment has just started to flower; think something is going on. busy_lizzie

[moonbells]

Dunno - seems like usual poisonous autumn damp blowy weather to me.  Got down to 2.9C last night in Chilterns with the first frost forecast this weekend so then will be able to start the clearing in earnest as the courgettes and beans will have collapsed. 

Typically Saturday looks nice (if windy) and I'm off to an exhibition so won't be able to do much till Sunday :(

moonbells

[Obelixx]

I believe most of the UKs autumn gales and stroms are tail ends of hurricanes across the pond, which makes sense given the prevailing wind direction for most of the country and the high percentage of weather fronts coming off the Atlantic.    Feel free to blame Mr Bush for doing nothing about USA greenhouse emissions etc.......

[Garden Manager]

I believe most of the UKs autumn gales and stroms are tail ends of hurricanes across the pond, which makes sense given the prevailing wind direction for most of the country and the high percentage of weather fronts coming off the Atlantic.    Feel free to blame Mr Bush for doing nothing about USA greenhouse emissions etc.......

Yes that probably explains it then there HAVE been more hurricanes this year so it stands to reason we'd get the remnants in the form of atlantic storms.

[Lily]

I seems to be a bit mild where I am south Yorkshire.  I live in a dip which often misses the frost and snow.  If it does fall it's often gone in a few hours.

This mild Autumn reminds me of 1975 when the temperature hovered around 5 deg all winter, which was then followed by a very hot summer of 1976.

Leeds outdoor market caught fire that year.  It was alledged that they had to leave it to burn because of the shortage of water.

We were told we would have lots of snow last year, but I can't remember seeing any round here.

Lily