The official Autumn/Winter 25/26 named storm and snow thread

[smallpaul]

The trees are turning, snow has fallen on the Cairngorms and I've turned the heating on

[zb]

Yip, frost on my neighbours car this morning.

[POIDH]

Indeed we had frost in Perthshire and had discussion over the weekend about the winter and storms to come as we wandered around Benmore Botanic gardens which is still devastated by Storm Éowyn.

Edited by POIDH on Monday 22 September 16:56

[Puggit]

Good to see others starting the thread

[119]

Pleasantly warm here in the sunshine.

[UTH]

Puggit said:

Good to see others starting the thread

As a man set in his ways, I disagree with you

[vixen1700]

Been a baking hot day here today.

[Puggit]

The Lake District as really changed...

[Faust66]

Best time of the year when this thread starts IMO.

I've got a feeling it's going to be a long and very cold winter (I say this every year so I'm bound to be right at some point... )

[Puggit]

Faust66 said:

Best time of the year when this thread starts IMO.

I've got a feeling it's going to be a long and very cold winter (I say this every year so I'm bound to be right at some point... )

Well, the trees have born a lot of acorns and fruit this year, and that's historically been connected with a bad winter (but if course if more to do with the conditions during summer).

[Faust66]

Puggit said:

Faust66 said:

Best time of the year when this thread starts IMO.

I've got a feeling it's going to be a long and very cold winter (I say this every year so I'm bound to be right at some point... )

Well, the trees have born a lot of acorns and fruit this year, and that's historically been connected with a bad winter (but if course if more to do with the conditions during summer).

I was reading up on this over the summer regarding Rowan/Mountain Ash trees as they have bumper crop of berries this year: apparently numerous studies have shown there is no correlation between the fruit production and winter weather. As you say, it's all about summer conditions.

I'm originally from Somerset (moi luvver) and country folklore and myths really interest me. Sadly, most of them seem to have little bearing in fact.

[Celtic Dragon]

Have we got any stable charts for the weekend yet? Ive looked at 3 and they all seem to be having an argument over Gabrielle and where it’s likely to get wet

[leglessAlex]

UTH said:

Puggit said:

Good to see others starting the thread

As a man set in his ways, I disagree with you

Same

You can definitely feel the chill in the air down near Winchester, and it's beginning to smell more like autumn in the mornings too.

[JakeT]

Hadn’t realised we were on for winter. Definitely cooler this week, and the smell of log burners around of an evening, too!

[dxg]

I predict a long dreary wetness.

[S100HP]

leglessAlex said:

UTH said:

Puggit said:

Good to see others starting the thread

As a man set in his ways, I disagree with you

Same

You can definitely feel the chill in the air down near Winchester, and it's beginning to smell more like autumn in the mornings too.

There is only one person allowed to start this thread

[jimmyjimjim]

It's been a long, relatively mild summer here in Colorado. I'm curious to see what winter brings.

[Blib]

Puggit said:

Good to see others starting the thread

If Puggit's here then winter's coming.

[Llentil the llama]

First frost in South Herts this week coinciding with the autumn equinox, winter on its way.

Clipped the horses last weekend and now they are rugged another sign of winter cold.

The swallows that nested in our stables flew away last Friday, four chicks raised this year.

Loads of acorns on the ground now.

Summer already feels long gone.

[geeks]

May or may not be the correct thread for this.

Weather stations, we had a sainlogic thing that was semi useful for a couple of years but has quite on us, I could faff repair it and replace the dead temp and humidity sensor but why do that when I can add more geekery to the house. Having looked at some options I have zero'd in on this:

https://amzn.eu/d/7iilJw4 - ECOWITT Wittboy Weather Station

Seems like a decent alternative to one with moving part and is cheaper than the tempest with just as much functionality. Downside is that I will need to deploy internal temp sensors (to be fair I have these anyway) and will need to get a cheap tablet to act as a Homeassistant display that I can then use to display weather and house temps etc.

Thoughts? (might also cross post this elsewhere)