OMGWTFthepolarbearwouldberightathome!!!?!

[muridae_x]

I just went out to empty my dustbin, because the binmen come at ungodly o'clock in the morning. And I had to knock ice crystals off the top.

And just to prove that it really is snow, albeit of a rather slushy variety, the shed roof has turned white.

Snow? What's it doing snowing in October? It doesn't usually get down to that sort of stuff in London

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[bardsmaid]

Oh, my! And you're not alone. I got a note from sinkwriter yesterday in which she said the same thing about her home in the Chicago area (complete with "What's it doing snowing in October?")

We had a weird August here, with rain for a couple of weeks instead of baking sun, but then it warmed up again, and aside from a handful of nights down around the freezing mark, it's been fairly mild, and we've had nearly a week of sunshine. It's been a pretty nice, colorful fall, too, though I can see that we've just reached the tipping point and now the colors are beginning, ever so subtly, to fade.

[muridae_x]

In a country where rain is the default it takes a lot of it for the natives to grumble about how unusually wet it's been, and we've had a record-breakingly wet summer. But autumn has been the best weather we've had all year, apart from being bitingly cold for the past week or so, so I was just a bit surprised by the unseasonal snow. Especially as I got drenched by torrential rain on my way home from work four hours earlier, and that was very definitely rain.

Of course it didn't last - it had all melted by the time I went to bed - but that's par for the course in London, where the city is always just a degree or two warmer.