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Snap! Same minimum here before it warmed up. Dismal today. Hoping for sunshine tomorrow to brighten up my visit to Stourhead.

I have memories of seeing Bristol harbour frozen during the first week of January 1997, the first such memory I have. Bitingly cold, a dusting of snow around and mainly sunny. It remained a very quiet month thereafter. Unfoetunately can’t remember this November 2001 northerly very well, but as said above, the December northerlies were a lot better and gave some snow between Christmas and New Year.

Holding steady at 0.5C here and just noticed there is high cloud over the moon. Bit early for that...

Lo and behold, that is exactly what happened. Rain moved in overnight, then cleared before sunrise and it's now a beautifully bright day again.

1C outside, with thin frost on the roof of the car. I bet it will halt somewhere around 0.5C then start going up lol, just to practise for winter.

A chilly 02.8C out there at the moment.

Cloudy most of the day, but dry, then heavy rain set in this evening. Looks like the first of many sub 10C days too.

Personally I think it will take something more than just neutral conditions to strengthen the PV post early January given it reaches its peak around New Year. If it's been sluggish up until then, it's unlikely to reorganise properly at length at least thereafter. It only took a week in January 2011 for colder benign conditions to return after a brief Atlantic spell following the frigid December. In the here and now, however, I've got my eyes on as much of an anticyclonic flow as possible. A trough-dominated easterly just means more rain that's cold as opposed to mild. Still haven't achieved an actual air frost here yet so a ridge or two of high pressure wouldn't go amiss.

Here, the wind and the rain have largely been at different times. The strongest of the wind was earlier this morning, then a calmer and bright interlude before midday, then intermittent and often heavy rain since then, with gusty winds but not as strong as this morning.

Almost as low as 10th December 2017 which got down to 970.8mb. Today bottomed out at 972mb here. That's also a staggering stat for you re autumn 2000 given how wet that autumn was!

Mostly light rain so far but very windy at times! Sunny at the moment.

0.7C the low. So close! Ruddy cloud got in the way. What does one have to do to get a clear night eh!

Especially amazing to see while looking at my thermometer that currently reads 02.9C! Sparkling day here, and the first day not to reach 10C since 09th April. A maximum of 09.9C. Las night's minimum was also the coldest since 06th May at 02.0C. I'm hoping we can get an air frost tomorrow morning but fear high cloud from the south may scupper the best chance of the week!

I could just about tolerate a remainder of autumn like 2000, if mid December onwards is like what it was in that winter. Cold at Christmas, snow shortly after, often cold with intermittent snow in January, then cold spells in February and March, albeit with wet spells in between. One thing that's really getting to me though, which was pleasantly alleviated today, is the lack of sunshine! Such a dull month down here - you may actually have been better off up in Cumbria this month for sunshine.

Sadly most of what comes from the tropics is tosh Andy! Im looking forward to the clearance and the sudden chill to the air.

A day of three parts. Foggy start, and cold - coldest morning of the season so far - then sunnyish, then cloudy with more rain than expected, which has seemingly pepped up in situ this evening. Briefly, it was a beautiful sunset as there is still clearer sky to the west.

It has still managed to rain this morning, albeit very lightly. No dry day for here.

Last autumn was much more colourful than this autumn so far. Then again, it seems like a slower start. Most of the trees where I’m currently sat in Berkshire are still green/early September shades of brown. Very few yellows and reds.

A chillier night last night. Down to 04.8C. Driven to Berkshire this morning where it’s much cloudier and a bit milder.

If this is the weather we're going to get from low pressure then I'd rather we keep it, than get landed with a cloudy high lol. Beautifully sunny and very pleasant in the sunshine.

Typical (colder half of the year) southwesterly here. Since the trough this morning there have been no showers here.

Early fog gave way to an often cloudy morning but it's not beautifully sunny and very pleasant to boot.

My word! That figure for August! When on earth did that fall?

Sadly not, although Bristol Weather Centre which was still operational then, and not too far from me, recorded 181mm in October 2000, having collected 152mm in September and then 160mm in November. Assuming similar figures would've been the case in North Somerset, my next wettest was November 2012 with 195.2mm Interesting to note that really wet autumns have more commonly led on to chillier winters than not, often due to a southerly tracking jet stream. Knowing our luck that won't apply this year but it's an interesting thought.

210mm the total for here. If it had all fallen in a calendar month I'd be on to the second wettest month I've recorded. I have to go back to November 2009 to find a run of rainfall totals like the last 20 days. That month totaled 275.6mm here, making it the wettest month I've ever recorded by far. November 2002 takes second place with 202mm. Shock horror, it's not raining today and looks like the heaviest of the precipitation moved north to the east of this area earlier on.