Today it rained and rained. Beautiful, wonderful, wet rain. We've had a lot of water restrictions lately due to the drought and we filled up loads of gallon jugs and empty cat litter containers. Hopefully that will help keep my flowers alive for all of the migrating butterflies without having to turn on the hose. 

We ought to send you some rain from the UK. We're currently having about a month's worth in the space of a couple of days...  

Summer has finally given up here, hurrah! Last night we had rain for the first time in two weeks (that is a long hot, dry spell for us at this time of year), and today is cloudy and much more comfortable. What a relief!

We are heading full into Autumn now, with trees more and more beginning to change colour, and farm machines as busy as bees. It looks like the reds of trees will be especially striking this year, yay! Whereas the past couple of years, they have been more muted (albeit still lovely). Already there many peeks of brights yellows, harvest oranges, deep reds, mixed in with that still rich green.

We have rain for the next few days, then towards the weekend a mixture of sun and cloud with very comfy temps, although still a few degrees above normal (which is late teens Celsius this time of year). Looking forward to when the temps are even cooler, both daytime and nighttime. That will come soon enough.  

Glad to hear your area has finally have rain too, fantasia!

We had rain yesterday in Michigan and we really needed it. The sunshine has returned today so the weather is really nice for taking hikes and looking at lighthouses.  That is what I did this morning. 🙂

I found this video of the Grand Haven Lighthouse on YouTube:

It is the same lighthouse that I visited this morning.

That looks awesome, @narnian78. I also like visiting lighthouses, on Lake Superior in my case.

The fall colors are just beginning here, though some spectacular colors are being reported near the North Shore of Lake Superior.

The days are rapidly getting shorter but summer heat hangs on, with highs over 80F/27C expected the rest of the month (the average high drops to 66F/19C). This will likely be our warmest September on record, beating the mark set just last year.

It's also been incredibly dry, quite a change from the summer rains. We've had only 0.06 inch (1.5mm) of rain all month, and no more is expected, so this will also break the record for dryest September ever (also set last year).

This weather does make for spending lots of time outside, and plenty of enjoyable stargazing in the lengthening nights. The morning sky is especially spectacular now, with bright Orion joined by blazing Jupiter and Mars.

I didn't notice that September was the warmest September on record, Down Under. It began to look as if temperatures would reach 30 degrees Celsius, last Wednesday, but nooo, the heat evaporated overnight. We had a cold snap overnight, bearing some much-needed rain. 

Spring has arrived but having taken off my cardigans & jumpers, I find myself putting them on again of an evening, or in the morning when temperatures feel like 10 degrees Celsius, even after the sun has risen for a while. Deep-fried ice-cream weather rules, that is to say, warm but with a cold centre. 

Beautiful, Narnian78!

'Though I said above that summer has finally given up here in Ontario, the temperatures remain a bit above normal, yet not as warm and dry as we had between September 9 - 22. We had much-needed rain a few nights ago - heavy downpours, beautiful thunder. This weekend, at the northern side of Hurricane Helene, there will be heavy clouds and some rain. Even today, our light cloud cover is from the edge of that hurricane. Thinking of those in its strong, devastating path down south!

Mid next week, the temps finally give way to that longed-for Autumn feel, with nighttime temperatures in the single digits, and daytime, mid-teens Celsius / around 60. More and more trees are beginning to show off their stunning colours. I love the thought of weeks and weeks of this beauty and cool, crisp weather ahead of us!

We're still stuck in summer. Hopefully we get a break soon. It's been 90-100+ since end of April here. 

Loving this Autumn weather here in SW Ontario. The next week (and probably onward through October) is going to be in the mid-teens Celsius (high 50sF) during the days, then at night—get a load of this!—mid single digitsC (early 40sF), with a chance of frost tonight ... our first notification that the ground may be lightly covered in that sparkling white stuff early tomorrow morning. This is grrrreat weather for my walks, absolutely indeed!  

More and more trees are blushing colour here, but a lot are still quite green, so our peak will definitely be well past Thanksgiving this year, with the unusual warmth and dryness we had in September.

There will be a mixture of sun and cloud (with storms this Sunday), along with periodic rain showers. Next weekend (October 11-14) is our Canadian Thanksgiving, so here's hoping the temps will remain about the same so we, along with our family who will be here, can eat outside (albeit with sweaters on ), have campfires, go on walks.

The days are rapidly getting shorter here, but temps still remain stuck in late-summer mode. It may reach 81F/27C here later this week, short of a record but still way above the average high of 61F/16C.

However, towns north of here reported lows of 27F/-4C this morning, so winter will get here eventually.

The fall colors are delayed here, perhaps because of the wet summer. But I've seen some spectacular pictures from the North Shore of Lake Superior.

It remains dry - about 6 weeks since we've had any rain to speak of - which is awesome to allow enjoyment of the warm fall days and lengthening nights. But almost half of Minnesota is now in a moderate drought condition, with the rest being abnormally dry. Quite a change from the wet summer!

The warm, dry weather is expected to continue to mid-October.