1st day of Autumn .

[Deleted member 26715]

I'm refusing to wear pants/trousers till the first of October at the earliest.

Why did the thought of Captain Sweatpants spring to mind as soon as I read that

 

[vickster]

I'm refusing to wear pants/trousers till the first of October at the earliest.

You wander around pantless and trouserless

 

[MontyVeda]

I've always thought that summer starting on the longest day is pretty odd, given that we sometimes (including this year) experience heatwaves before that, and early June is often a spell of warm, dry weather. The leaves usually turn from early September and buds and bulbs emerge in early March.

Springtime is often quite warm. Late spring can be very summery. Early spring can be very wintry. Late summer is always autumnal... pinning the changing seasons to a single specific date is daft, but at least something actually happens from the astronomical perspective.

 

[biggs682]

Only 3c here this morning I've got the heating on.

Cant believe you have your heating on already

 

[snorri]

You can put your summer gear away now and get your coats and umbrellas out, it will only get worse for the next few months.

Indeed, ice on the puddles here this morning.

 

[User482]

Springtime is often quite warm. Late spring can be very summery. Early spring can be very wintry. Late summer is always autumnal... pinning the changing seasons to a single specific date is daft, but at least something actually happens from the astronomical perspective.

I'm mostly talking about the prevailing climatic conditions rather than extremes, so having the coldest three months as winter seems sensible to me. The astronomical argument is just a point on a continuum but it does make sense in that it's not tied to a particular calendar and is directly related to daylight .

 

[Lullabelle]

Our patio door is open here today.

 

[AndyRM]

Cant believe you have your heating on already

Ours is on some weird wireless thermostat thing and I can't work out how to turn it down or off. It's either haunted or knackered.

Probably haunted.

 

[biggs682]

Ours is on some weird wireless thermostat thing and I can't work out how to turn it down or off. It's either haunted or knackered.

Probably haunted.

Ours is controlled by she who must be obeyed so sometime in deepest Febuary it will be on

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Ours is on some weird wireless thermostat thing and I can't work out how to turn it down or off. It's either haunted or knackered.

Hit with hammer, remove batteries easily sorted, although it may cause problems later on in the year

 

[green1]

The last day of summer was 31st August...

There was only a week of summer here. And you could only tell because the rain was warmer than usual.

 

[User482]

There was only a week of summer here. And you could only tell because the rain was warmer than usual.

Didn't we have the hottest June since 1976? I hear August was wet in the UK, but I was in Canada for most of it, where it was warm and dry.

 

[green1]

Be grateful you don't live near the Equator where daytime length varies by just a few minutes all year and there are only two seasons, extremely hot and dry and extremely wet and warm. You also don't get those glorious long mornings and evenings because the sun just goes vertically up and down, plop into the horizon and it's dark in 15 minutes.

I preferred it that way. Yes I love it being light all evening, but I hate the winter when it's permanently dark.

 

[green1]

Didn't we have the hottest June since 1976? I hear August was wet in the UK, but I was in Canada for most of it, where it was warm and dry.

Down south maybe, definitely not in the NE of Scotland!

 

[User482]

I preferred it that way. Yes I love it being light all evening, but I hate the winter when it's permanently dark.

Well, if you will insist on living in the Arctic...