Fourty Point Three Degrees

If December is going to be mild then you might aswell call winter off. We all know that chasing cold in December just turns into chasing cold in January and no sooner does it become chasing cold in February. Seen It all too often.

I keep getting this all day when trying to log in or is it just me?

Is there a term to describe winter weather in spring? Just like warm weather occurring in autumn is called "Indian summer". Do we have one for cold weather in Spring?

It will be the usual this winter. Wet and mild over here while winter wonderland across the Atlantic

Devoid of a prolonged fine spell? We've just had a week long hot spell that you'd expect in July. What do people expect in September? Nothing poor on the horizon either it's all looking like a standard default weather pattern for a typical UK Autumn.

With the current boiling hot SST's i wont expect much this winter

Gotta admit this hot spell isn't much fun as its got just too humid and nights here have become uncomfortable even for my liking. I think it's just a toned down version of the hot spell of August 2003 which went on for several days with oppressive high humidity levels.

Gfs just goes on and on. Still 31c in the SE by next Wednesday. This would have be the longest spell of 30c days in September.

Looking at some of the overnight lows this week it looks like lows might not drop below 20C. Have Tropical nights ever happened in September before?

When isn't September better than August.

An Indian Summer always when its after the first frost even if it happens in September

Why can't we say this summer was a good summer? We always say 2013 was good summer when its only known for its 10 day hot spell in July. Both June and August 2013 were dreadful months.

Nice looking 18z rolling out Could this be a week long warm and dry spell similar to that of June?

Aug 10th 2003 disagrees with you. . which is a date way past solstice and into late summer and was all 20 years ago today - so if 38.5c can be made 20 years ago I'd say 40c is pretty achievable in August today, and all in a warming UK climate.

What bugs me about BBC weather is how they use Liverpool to represent the temperature across the North West. Liverpool is always going to be the coolest place during heatwaves. A person living in Stoke or Manchester will assume their temperature is going to be 26 but its actually 26 for Liverpool yet in Manchester or Stoke it could be 30 or 31. The BBC did it last July and announced it was going to be 32 in Liverpool when it was 37 in Manchester. The population of Manchester and surrounding towns and cities sure exceeds the population of Liverpool yet we have to go by Liverpools temperature to represent the whole north west.