The Autumn 2012 edition of the ECMWF Newsletter has been published. Articles include "Describing ECMWF’s forecasts and forecasting system”, “Discussion about the ECMWF Newsletter and communicating science”, “Global, non-hydrostatic, convection-permitting, medium-range forecasts: progress and challenges”, “ECMWF soil moisture validation activities” and “Forecast sensitivity to observation error variance”.