Warm October

[ApophisAstros]

I was just thinking how warm it is during the last couple of months, although loads of rain . Obviously chilly at night and have to turn heating on first thing for couple of hours, ok they say that warmer temps are bad but we are saving loads on heating costs.(and less Co2 because of that).

Whats everyone elses' take.

Roger

[JamesF]

I'm still wearing shorts during the day which I probably wouldn't be quite this late in October.  Our heating has come on a couple of times this week though, and last night my wife lit the wood-burner for the first time since the summer.

Of course in the south of the UK we may not be producing as much CO2 because of the reduced need for heating, but others in warmer climes may be generating more as a result of running aircon more often.

James

[Cornelius Varley]

16 minutes ago, JamesF said:

I'm still wearing shorts during the day which I probably wouldn't be quite this late in October

Thank you for that image 

[JamesF]

3 minutes ago, Cornelius Varley said:

Thank you for that image 

Hey, look, I work from an office at home.  You're fortunate I'm not still in my dressing gown

James

[LukeSkywatcher]

Its turned pretty cold here in the last week or so. I've got 3 blankets on the bed. Heating goes on at 4-7pm.

I prefer the cold to heat though.

[Skipper Billy]

Our heating is on 0500 to 0800 and 1600 to 2200 - I work mostly outside and we are a long way north so I dont like starting the day off cold and I like to come home to a warm house!

We also have a 12kw log burner for when its really cold as our lounge has 2 walls that are almost all glass and the heat loss is horrendous!

One of our regular customers is still in shorts and a t-shirt although I did see him with a fleece on the other day when it was -3º !!

 

[Craney]

i'm not exactly sure what the axes mean on that graph, but look at the variability in recent data  !!!.....    

Is that greater extremes in climate or the sampling technique ( experimental precision?) creating an less exaggerated range for the early data.

 

Anyway, no heating in my house.......   I'm from Yorkshire.

Edited October 23, 2019 by Craney

[vlaiv]

Over here it's been quite interesting 25-26C + during the day. We had warmest October day in past 60+ years couple a days ago with temperatures over 28C.

Heating season starts around 15th of October (for those on remote / central heating) and most people that do their own heating start even earlier than that - second week of October. Average daily temperature for October here is about 12.4C. Last two weeks we did not get down to that temperature even in the early mornings. It's also much drier than usual.

Warm weather will apparently continue until beginning of the next weak.

Btw, I'm also currently in my shorts

 

[grjsk]

15 minutes ago, vlaiv said:

Over here it's been quite interesting 25-26C + during the day. We had warmest October day in past 60+ years couple a days ago with temperatures over 28C.

Heating season starts around 15th of October (for those on remote / central heating) and most people that do their own heating start even earlier than that - second week of October. Average daily temperature for October here is about 12.4C. Last two weeks we did not get down to that temperature even in the early mornings. It's also much drier than usual.

Warm weather will apparently continue until beginning of the next weak.

Btw, I'm also currently in my shorts

 

Hmm, looks like Serbia and Norway uses the same weather service layout. This is for Oslo:

 

Haven't seen the sun in a while, hoping the next week will bring some clear skies..

[maw lod qan]

Still running an AC 24/7 here in Fla. Yesterday we had what you could call our first good cold front push through. Mainly dropped the humidity.

Today it comes back as a warm front and brings 70% humidity back with it.

But the change last night was wonderful. Got out at 4am to look at the moon, took in Orions nebula and M31. 

[alan potts]

35 minutes ago, vlaiv said:

Over here it's been quite interesting 25-26C + during the day. We had warmest October day in past 60+ years couple a days ago with temperatures over 28C.

Heating season starts around 15th of October (for those on remote / central heating) and most people that do their own heating start even earlier than that - second week of October. Average daily temperature for October here is about 12.4C. Last two weeks we did not get down to that temperature even in the early mornings. It's also much drier than usual.

Warm weather will apparently continue until beginning of the next weak.

Btw, I'm also currently in my shorts

 

Vlaiv, we have had another 16 clear nights on the trot and 29-32 every day, we will pay for this I'm sure, clear again tonigh and tomorrow.

Alan

[vlaiv]

17 minutes ago, alan potts said:

Vlaiv, we have had another 16 clear nights on the trot and 29-32 every day, we will pay for this I'm sure, clear again tonigh and tomorrow.

Alan

Only issue I have here at the moment is that there is quite a bit of fog in the evening - high humidity and probably high air pressure. With LP, I can hardly make out Orion's belt in the evening. Don't know why is it so humid - we haven't had rain in quite a while.

37 minutes ago, grjsk said:

Hmm, looks like Serbia and Norway uses the same weather service layout. This is for Oslo:

That is just because I use yr.no as my weather provider - they give forecast for much of Europe and are precise enough

[grjsk]

15 minutes ago, vlaiv said:

That is just because I use yr.no as my weather provider - they give forecast for much of Europe and are precise enough

Haha, that explains alot! I actually use another norwegian service; storm.no. If you select the Storm/YR tab on the website, you get both services side by side. Quite convenient. When they both agree it's usually correct!

Edited October 23, 2019 by grjsk

[alan potts]

24 minutes ago, vlaiv said:

Only issue I have here at the moment is that there is quite a bit of fog in the evening - high humidity and probably high air pressure. With LP, I can hardly make out Orion's belt in the evening. Don't know why is it so humid - we haven't had rain in quite a while.

That is just because I use yr.no as my weather provider - they give forecast for much of Europe and are precise enough

I use the same YR no, we get fog but it only develops around 4 in the morning, skies here are superb, with a touch of wind and after rain they are as good as I have seen anywhere and I have traveled a lot. I too like you wonder where the fog comes from as we had 43 clear nights and days then a bit of rain for two days and now this 16 night run.

Alan 

[grjsk]

6 minutes ago, alan potts said:

I use the same YR no, we get fog but it only develops around 4 in the morning, skies here are superb, with a touch of wind and after rain they are as good as I have seen anywhere and I have traveled a lot. I too like you wonder where the fog comes from as we had 43 clear nights and days then a bit of rain for two days and now this 16 night run.

Alan 

Wow, I'm jealous, I haven't had a clear night since october 7th..

[alan potts]

50 minutes ago, grjsk said:

Wow, I'm jealous, I haven't had a clear night since october 7th..

I would be happy for you to have a few of my clear nights if you could send some rain, grass is yellow and gave up growing weeks back.

Alan

[Physopto]

3 hours ago, Skipper Billy said:

Our heating is on 0500 to 0800 and 1600 to 2200 - I work mostly outside and we are a long way north so I dont like starting the day off cold and I like to come home to a warm house!

We also have a 12kw log burner for when its really cold as our lounge has 2 walls that are almost all glass and the heat loss is horrendous!

One of our regular customers is still in shorts and a t-shirt although I did see him with a fleece on the other day when it was -3º !!

 

One of the regular attendees at the Galloway star campcome rain or snow  is allways in shirt and shorts, I just don't know how he does it.

[ApophisAstros]

41 minutes ago, alan potts said:

I would be happy for you to have a few of my clear nights if you could send some rain, grass is yellow and gave up growing weeks back.

Alan

a least you don't have to get the gardener to cut it..🧐

[Rob Sellent]

3 hours ago, Physopto said:

One of the regular attendees at the Galloway star campcome rain or snow  is allways in shirt and shorts

I start feeling the chill when the evenings drop under 10ºc or so. Any lower than that and it's on with the thermals and winter coat etc ⛄

[LukeSkywatcher]

I bought myself 2 plaid shirts in Tesco today. They are like fleece material and nice and warm. 2 for 25 euros. No pockets on mine. I dont like pockets on shirts.

Edited October 23, 2019 by LukeSkywatcher

[Physopto]

My wife bought me something similar a few weeks ago. Not even tried it as yet. But I expect it will get plenty of wear at the Galloway Star Camp next week. Can and does get a bit err chilly, really freezing, at times.