Still Mild

[canonman]

Hi All
How are things going on the weather front in your part of the country?
We are still having warm days here in the Midlands, although the nights get a bit cooler and I see the odd butterfly still flying around, even the plants are not sure what to do.
Is this down to the old Global warming we keep talking about or just that winters are getting milder?
Mick

[coldun]

Hi

Still incredibly mild here in Cumbria on the Solway Coast.

Most bedding plants still in flower and reflowering..grass still growing.

Nettles, and many other weeds have not died back in fact everywhere still looks very green and lush - not the usual gray drabbness of this time of year.

We still have some butterflies and bees (and when the sun is out) hundreds and hundreds of blue bottles on one of the ivy plants.


All in all, most peculiar.

Coldun

[Paul mabbott]

Almost warm some mornings when the sun shines although today in Sheffield is quite grim and windy. The average Central England temperature for th three 'autumn' months is projected to be 12.6C - a record: the previous highest was 11.8C in 1731. So, yes, I'd say it's getting warmer! However, it might be a shift in seasons - warmer autumns but colder springs?

[RobSutton]

Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

Almost warm some mornings when the sun shines although today in Sheffield is quite grim and windy. The average Central England temperature for th three 'autumn' months is projected to be 12.6C - a record: the previous highest was 11.8C in 1731. So, yes, I'd say it's getting warmer! However, it might be a shift in seasons - warmer autumns but colder springs?

We have one of the official met staions where I work and have been recording temperatures and so on since the 1950's. If we plot any of the temperature parameters (eg maximum temperature, minimum temperature, 10cm soil depth temperature or any other of them) for any month against year then the values nowadays are consistently about 1.5 degrees C above what they were in the 1950's. It seems as if the pattern we're seeing applies thoughout the year.

[Dennis1234567]

In the southeast we have wet and mild days that drift into mildly cold nights, The rain is heavy and it rains almost every day. I have the bullet proof thistle growing outside my garden gate covered in powdery mildew, a rye grass lawn covered in dollarspot. Some of the birdlife here should have skipped town a couple of months ago. We have animals and insects running around that should be dead or asleep. Although i have no figures, i'm sure autumn is two moths late, and is fighting with summer who refuses to leave.

[Mr Mag00]

I still have a ragged robin flowering in my pond

[RobSutton]

Originally Posted by Mr Mag00

I still have a ragged robin flowering in my pond

I could take offence - how would you like to be called ragged every time you open a flower book.

Robin

[Susie]

Better than black eyed Susan!

[RobSutton]

Originally Posted by Susie

Better than black eyed Susan!

At least you could blame someone else

[Wild-Woman]

Bet this one develops into a new thread!