Autumn 2024 Moans, ramps and banter

[*Stormforce~beka*]

 HarvSlugger I haven't seen the sun in the past week! I've forgotten what it looks like!

[LightningLover]

Never seen such a uniformly cloudy forecast before!

[blizzard81]

 Bats32   Give me a bright, calm and dry winter any day compared to the dark, dreary, wet and windy ones we normally have to endure.

[carinthian]

 johncam No unfortunately. Looks like Euro High in wrong spot for the Eastern Alps for the next 10 days or so. Hopefully, we will see a change across Europe in the second half of the month. A bit of snow on the highest peaks above 2500m but mostly a golden and warm feeling landscape currently.

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[Northwest NI]

 Froze were the Days rather be bored than frightened/agitated….

[In Absence of True Seasons]

Literally haven't seen a single scrap of sun / light this entire week. Madness.

And obviously, as I knew it would, the sunny few days thst were forecasted for early November as of last week, have now shifted to just more grey.

Worrying precedent if this is what CC has in store for us. Mild, grey, and wet.

[StingJet]

 In Absence of True Seasons Still tracking the 150million tonnes of water vapour that was ejected from hunga tonga through the trop into the strat back in 2022. For the past 12 months we are well and truly into the down stream effects , what goes up must come back down. Consuming many scientific reports from met scholars on the subject , with many differing opinions , from strat warming to strat cooling and down welling affects on NH Polar Jet and modelling that cannot deal with the data from this somewhat unprecedented event in modern times

 

Edited November 1 by StingJet

[Catbrainz]

 In Absence of True Seasons Just a unfortunate fact of highs between Nov-Jan to be cloudy for places north of 45N due to trapped cloud or foggy inversions and sun not strong enough to burn off any cloud/fog. This time of year I would say cyclonic conditions tend to be sunnier and brighter overall as long as its not endless SWly lows as wind means cloud isn't lingering around and you get those frontal clearances. 

[Froze were the Days]

 Northwest NI I wonder if you would have made this reply if I posted a few days ago?...you do realise that people have lost their lives through weather events for decades if not hundreds of years particularly along equatorial regions such as India and Bangladesh? Obviously now GW has exacerbated these biblical events now in the built up western world as per wild fires at high latitude locations and flooding as experienced in eastern Europe and now parts of Spain of late.

As per my comment of 'boredom' it holds fast in my opinion, I've never known a number of years where this countries climate and particularly where I live has become less varied. It really is a case of mild and how mild or wet or how wet or dry. Yawn! But maybe to a degree you're correct as things could turn uglier in years ahead...but for the moment weather watching has never become so dull as the skies currently above my head.

Edited November 1 by Froze were the Days

[I remember Atlantic 252]

change afoot on GFS, much wetter and windier from 12th away from the NW

[*Stormforce~beka*]

 In Absence of True Seasons i am ready depressed. I'm getting my sad lamp out 

[richie3846]

Sun or no sun, it's reassuring to have a dry spell. By the end of September we were on the brink of a disaster. The excessive rainfall was followed by an average October, when what we really needed was a drier than average spell. This dry spell is very welcome, helping water drain off fields, percolate through the soil and down into the water table. 

Hopefully we'll get a bit more of this for a while. The central block of England, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Gloucestershire etc, have already received the entire season's worth of rain, and more, so a dry November is just what we need. 

[Summer of 95]

Highs just seem to me to have become cloudier in general in the past 20-25 years. Either being cloudy all along or filling with cloud after a day or two seems to be the most common pattern these days, except in spring when the clear high still often prevails (eg 2020 and 2021). Summertime "cloudy highs" have definitely increased in frequency to the point where you can't now rely on an anticyclonic chart giving mostly sunny weather (was almost a given here in the 90s, even in the "poorer" summers).

Although cloudy winter highs have always been about, they now seem to turn up more often instead of frosty ones; either crystal clear or foggy (it seems like years since I last saw proper freezing fog?). And the traditional autumn high pressure weather- misty with a touch of frost at night, crisp and sunny by day- that's virtually extinct. Think October 1992 and 1993, late October 1997, November 1988. Earlier this month had a go but still had a lot of cloud turning up in the day especially.

Edited November 1 by Summer of 95

[IcySpicy]

Today is surprisingly stormy here in Estonia. Gusts up to 20 m/s inland with heavy showers. Today was forecasted to be windy, but not this bad and the rain is heavier too. Actually this might be our first proper stormy day of the season, September and October were unusually calm and dry.

The upcoming days are colder, with a possibility of some slight snow dusting tomorrow but after that it looks rather mild for November. The last 3 years it has suddenly turned cold in late November-early December but this year I feel like this mildness is going to drag into December. I haven't really kept up with any seasonal forecasts/predictions for winter but from what i've seen it looks very mild for Estonia as well. 

[hailcore]

Let some fireworks off this evening to mark one year since the tornado that devasted Jersey's east coast. Have to say, they were a bit more powerful that I imagined!

[B87]

An extremely wet and dull autumn so far in London.

[laddie]

What is this strange blue and brightness in the sky must be the work of wizards 

[Alderc 2.0]

The gloom is especially miserable and for the first time at actually feels cold despite temps holding up into double digits. It’s got a horrible raw and damp feel to thing with some bonus drizzle now being squeezed out too.

Edited November 2 by Alderc 2.0

[I remember Atlantic 252]

worse today now with E'ly breeze, drizzly showers rattling through, like some sort of sea fret

Edited November 2 by I remember Atlantic 252

[Mapantz]

I might buy some monochrome lenses for my sunglasses. May as well see everything in greyscale now.

Light levels are really low this morning.

[Alderc 2.0]

Some pretty heavy drizzle falling now, it’s utterly grim! 

[AWD]

 

What an inspiring forecast for those that enjoy outdoor life.  A weather enthusiast’s dream!  

[johncam]

Another cloudy drizzly day here , becoming tedious,  nextweek hopefully get a glimpse os the sun looking forward to two weeks of non weather. November used to be a month where we would look forward to first decent frosts and some snow  

 

 

Edited November 2 by johncam

[East Lancs Rain]

 AWD And moon behind cloud at 3 pm…   

 

Think that’s gotta be wrong unless you live in Iceland! 

[Weather Enthusiast91]

I think it's fair to say that many of us agree that high pressure at this time of the year seldom works. This current setup would have been great during the summer.