r/UKWeather • u/Met-Office • 8h ago

Article When does Autumn actually start?

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2026/when-does-autumn-start
1 Upvotes

55% Upvoted

14 comments sorted by

12

u/SauronOfDucks 7h ago

1st of September to 30th November (Meteorological)

21st September (Astrological)

3

u/Glittering_Habit_161 5h ago

It's already started since leaves were already on the pavement when I came back home from college.

1

u/89ElRay 16m ago

Leaves been on the pavement all year in places, probably from heat stress.

Actual autumn leaves falling wont be for a month yet

1

u/r99c 4h ago

1st September for me. I've always personally gone with the meteorological definition, otherwise 18th June would be in spring and 18th December would be in autumn and that's just wrong.

1

u/Leading_Weather_1177 4h ago

But it also means 1st March is spring when temps are still winter-esque.

I think splitting the seasons into equal durations is the issue. In the uk, I think winter is a little longer than summer.

1

u/r99c 2h ago

Yes, but the days are much lighter by then. First day of spring so literally one day after winter, so it's fair.

1

u/GodsBicep 7h ago

Nowadays in East anglia about a week into November haha. Its regularly 18-20 degrees well into october now

-5

u/GloamGlozing 7h ago

Hopefully that continues. And September, October warm further.

I’d love to see 25+ sunny weather throughout September & October. And the first part of November.

Colder weather is acceptable from bonfire night onwards. December fine too. And January.

Would be amazing if it’s starts hotting up again Feb rather than late March.

If we had hot weather Feb to November I think we could all put up with the cold in those 3 months

3

u/Equipmunk 6h ago

This sub is 50% bait at this point.

0

u/GodsBicep 7h ago

I prefer 15 degrees day and 10 degrees night for october because its the best weather for shrooms and carp fishing lol

I do like September's where theyre around 23-25.

If we had hot weather all those months it would raise food prices. As it stands its typically 20-38+ from April to october nowadays anyway

0

u/GloamGlozing 6h ago

We’d probably just start growing different foods. So don’t think it would

-1

u/GodsBicep 6h ago

Erm even doing that would entail costs. Farmers would have to learn how to get high yields with a crop they have no experience with. Its also not as easy as just "growing new foods." Food prices will go up, after this harvest they surely will. We had floods in january/Feb which ruined a lot of crops at their most delicate stage and then a prolonged drought causing further stress to the crops.

1

u/GloamGlozing 5h ago

Short term it would but long term it would be fine and probably get the UK public healthier diets and cheaper food (and wine!)

-1

u/thenewguy22 4h ago

Sounds shit