Frost In September

[renegadefm]

I couldn't believe my ears last night, when our local news show said there will be some frost on Friday. 

I'm thinking hang its still technically summer. 

[renegadefm]

I will stick my neck out and say this has to be one of the worst summers I can remember. 

 

I did the normal thing I do in May and tidied up our back yard, and washed the garden seats etc.  And hand on heart I haven't once sat out there with a cold beer which I normally do on a lovely summers evening, but the few sunny days we have had I have been either working or doing something else.

 

I think I can honestly say this is the first summer I haven't once sat out there. 

[Barmaid]

It has been an awful summer.  I am normally work outside from early May til October.  I've got a gazebo and outside power supply.  This year, I have sat out there a handful of times.

[Old_Geezer]

Much of September is Summer, unless one is involved in meteorology abd can't cope with seasons correctly starting on equinoxes and solstices.

 

Autumn starts this year on Sunday 22 September.

[renegadefm]

We certainly have had more rainy or over cast days than nice sunny ones. 

A farmer I know hasn't even been able to do a crop of hay because there hasn't been enough sunny days in a row to dry it once its cut. 

And I've never witnessed that before. 

[TwoShortPlanks]

Farmer here. The weather this year has been cr@p. We still have barley to harvest and it won't stop raining. The biggest concern is that the crop will start to rot in the field before we can cut it. 

[Barmaid]

You have my sympathy twoshortplanks.  I'm a farmer's daughter (although dad is retired) so I get this I really do.  My friends across the road are arable farmers - they have now got it all in, but it was very fits and starts and he told me a couple of days ago that it is his worst harvest ever.

[renegadefm]

Its just been announced on our local news here in Cornwall, that we will experience frost tomorrow morning. 

Personally hand on heart I can never remember frost in September, especially as its still technically summer until the 23rd of September. 

 

Strange times indeed!!