AO set to go strongly positive for the first time in months http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/daily_ao_index/ao_index_ensm.shtml

NAO not far behind either http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/pna/nao.sprd2.gif

We have defo been spared the atlantic this autumn. Long may it continue.

It a shame it didn't happen on prime summer months which was badly needed during that time to tap in the Euro extreme heat.  At least it staying dry and the longer this continue the better is to waste further time on this worst time of the year is Late Autumn and Winter.

An utter yawn fest, as has been the case all year apart from those storms in August

Hopefully we are building up "credit" for a good Winter!

Has to be the most boring year for weather ever!

Rough with the smooth

2013/2014 very stormy rough!

2015 Smooth > 2016??

Hasn't it just.

almost prefect to give that record a good run cant rule out very high teens or 20 c I would have thought imo just a little more ss/e

would need a fair bit of sunshine thou

Get the BBQs out!

I am often reading that we must learn to adapt to more extreme weather. Perhaps that includes more extremely boring weather.

Think we add on a couple on very warm indeed

yep defo looking mild, but if we got these temps in December onwards that would GREEN ME OUT, long as bonfire night is wet windy misty/foggy that's how it should be and that would be great. still 5 weeks till winter starts

I wonder what sort of November we're in for.

Looks like being above average all the way to mid November. Not much point getting perfect cold set this time of year anyway as its to early. Late November is the earliest you can get proper snow in this country and even that is as rare as hen's teeth. In fact I can only remember it happening once and that was in 2010.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/MT8_London_ens.png

Looks as though HP may mske a comeback next week if this morning's runs are anything to go by.

cough October 2008. 

2008 was pretty amazing - lying snow in April and again in October.

I'd forgotten about that one even got a covering in North London. Apart from that and November 2010 I can't recall lying snow before December . I'm 36 so remember the 80s and don't ever recall it even then I'm a Southener though so maybe different further North.

Why oh why couldn`t we have had this set up from May to Sept

Still as all the summer months were below average sods law says the above set up will be the default for the next 5months and winter will be well above average

Indeed Rob. In fact I was commenting to one of my colleagues at work yesterday that this day three years ago (26th Oct 2012) there was snow on the ground here. Looking at the current output it seems there may be a few weeks to wait before we see any this season.

Just to echo the above in that the current output is showing H.P in the wrong place and with it, unusually mild weather across much of NW Europe. Looks like remaining that way for the next couple of weeks too.

Bore fest continues. In fact, the most boring October EVER imo (for here). Zzzzzzzz.

However, better to get this in autumn than in winter. For this location even cold synoptics usually deliver sod all until late November so it can change then!