Positively glorious day here - you'd never guess that it was October at
all! The temperature is currently (11:55am) 21.6C and still rising
slowly - the sun is shining from a cloudless sky and there's a light breeze.

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Jonathan Stott
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Jonathan Stott wrote:
Positively glorious day here - you'd never guess that it was October at
all! The temperature is currently (11:55am) 21.6C and still rising
slowly - the sun is shining from a cloudless sky and there's a light
breeze.

Now 22.8C at 13:35 - some 4.1C warmer than the warmest day in October
last year.

I doubt we're anywhere near a record, but does anyone know what the
highest October temperature has been in this part of the world (Kent)?

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Jonathan Stott wrote:

Now 22.8C at 13:35 - some 4.1C warmer than the warmest day in October
last year.

Temperature is heading down now after peaking at 23.2C at 3pm.

Jonathan
Canterbury

Don't know about Kent, Jonathan, but here in Wokingham the October record
stands at 28.6 in 1921, with 25.3 in 1997 the warmest in recent years.

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Bernard Burton
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.

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Jonathan Stott wrote:
Positively glorious day here - you'd never guess that it was October at
all! The temperature is currently (11:55am) 21.6C and still rising
slowly - the sun is shining from a cloudless sky and there's a light
breeze.

Now 22.8C at 13:35 - some 4.1C warmer than the warmest day in October
last year.

I doubt we're anywhere near a record, but does anyone know what the
highest October temperature has been in this part of the world (Kent)?

--
Jonathan Stott
Canterbury Weather: http://www.canterburyweather.co.uk/
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Don't know about Kent, Jonathan, but here in Wokingham the October record
stands at 28.6 in 1921, with 25.3 in 1997 the warmest in recent years.

Hi Bernard,

It would be interesting to know what the specific dates are for those two
temperature recordings. They would be much more impressive as records
towards the end of the month, somewhat less so if they happened to be around
1 October (four weeks is a long time at this point in the year!).

Here in the North East of England, the temperature rose to the dizzy heights
of 19C today and if it hadn't been for the stiff breeze, I'm sure it would
have felt even warmer. Pleased we haven't switched to the winter duvet yet
and I reckon we'll have saved no small sum on our heating bill at this rate.

I don't know about you southern softies, but up here in the top right hand
corner of England we're well pleased to reach 19C. Any more of this and
they'll be taking the premature Christmas goodies off the supermarkets
shelves and bringing back the BBQ essentials! It just seems like summer is
reluctant to give way to autumn... mind you, it's a week since I last saw a
swallow!

Regards... David Allan.

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:59:12 +0100, David Allan wrote:

Here in the North East of England, the temperature rose to the dizzy
heights of 19C today and if it hadn't been for the stiff breeze, I'm
sure it would have felt even warmer.

It's spent most of today hovering just under 15C up here, even with
the F6 SSW'ly it hasn't been unpleasant, wind chill only down to 5C...

It just seems like summer is reluctant to give way to autumn...

It is unseasonably warm just at the moment but the trees definitely
think it's autumn. Sycamores and Chesnuts have changed dramatically in
the last few days from just showing signs to full golden colour and
dropping like snow flakes.

We normally have the first snow fall end of Oct early Nov...

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