Lets ask the egg heads

[tigerlily11]

What is going on with this weather.
My little weather do- hicky is telling me its 18c out there and having been in the garden I agree with it.
My strawberrys have new flowers on them. I have buds on my Honeysuckle and the lawn is growing like a nutter.
All I can say is after that cold hard summer its a warm welcome to a lovely warm dry sunny winter.
Are we in for a chnage any time soon or can we expect more of the same. If so I'm booking next years hols in October.

[greenrook]

We live near the sea in West Cornwall and hereabouts, our Octobers are as you describe, and often we can have quite a balmy November, so we haven't registered any global warming changes. As you infer though, the downside is having to mow the lawn and clip the hedges year-round!

[jake-the-peg]

Well let's see if we can answer the bimbos (we can play name calling too :c) )

Britains weather is greatly affected by the jetstream which is a highspeed river of high altitude air. It so happens to run over the country a lot.

If it's quite north we tend to get warmer weather from the South and if it's further south we tend to get nastier colder northern air.

But the weather is a chaotic system and inherently unpredictable - we can have a good idea what the next week's weather will be like - but sometimes even that is difficult to predict.

We can also see global trends and know that the whole planet is likely to be warmer in 50 years.

But as to what the weather will be like in a years time - you guess is pretty much as good as anybodys

[tigerlily11]

I am not bimbo Jake and I'd kindly ask you not to call me one thank you.
I just remember cold weathercoming in at the beginning of October in years past.
I used the term egg heads jokingly. There is no reason to be rude. I understand the how the jetstreams work thank you very much I just wondered how this is going to affect my plants.
But then I should remember that coming on here I will always get the up themselves brigade coming on, unable to take a joke. Maybe egg heads just can't take a joke.

[dozeydo]

Tigerlily - I was v surprised to see some primroses and cowslips in flower a couple of weeks ago so I thought - great - it's warm so I planted some broad beans and peas. I've now put them under cover but the beans are 2ft high and the peas are in flower! So - book your hol in October - why not?

[tigerlily11]

Yea thats what I was thinking.
I have pansies out side and roses flowering. I have flowers on the strawberry plants as well.

[sara3]

hey tiger, they're tough in science, huh?! ;o)

[tigerlily11]

Lol Sara yea just a bit.
They don't mind scoffing at us lesser mortals but you do it back and see what happens.
But they have their uses.
Clever bunch in here.

[joto]

I have a rhododendron in flower at the moment! I live in Birmingham