Julian Mayes

Imagine being an atmospheric scientist in the US at the moment

Misunderstanding the tide is putting millions at risk on UK coasts – here’s what you need to know Four in ten people surveyed were unaware that tides come in twice daily, that they vary in timing each day, and that they differ in height across the country.

"Four in ten people were unaware that tides come in twice daily, that they vary in timing each day, and that they differ in height across the country. Over a quarter of struggled with basic tide-table reading, and only a quarter could extract more complex information--such as when to safely return."

With admirable understatement, the then COL observer for Sevenoaks at that time, the late Peter Rogers, added the following comment to his weather diary after describing the weather of that day;

'structural damage was almost universal'.

Sevenoaks had become one-oak (standing).

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

A request for weather interested volunteers!

Met Eireann would like to rescue millions of weather observations taken in Ireland over many decades that are still stuck on paper. #WeatherRescue

Anyone can help: www.zooniverse.org/projects/met...

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk | Environment | The Guardian Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

It really is about time officials started preparing for this eventuality. It might surprise you that “Bournemouth East shows the largest projected increase in surface-water flood risk”. Scary stuff!

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.

I disagree.

RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!

Each month in the Central England Temperature series has warmed rapidly in the last 30 years. Here is a #dataviz showing 30 year average temperature since 1800 for each month. #climatechange #globalwarming

Can’t get enough of #StormAmy! This is from #MeteorM2_3 this morning.
#weather #meteorology #satellite

Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate

Kemi Badenoch has vowed to repeal the UK’s Climate Change Act, a move so reckless it demands more scrutiny than polite debate. This matters not just for polar bears or coral reefs, but for our people, our economy, our very future.

#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The rainfall observers Over the past three centuries, thousands of people across the British and Irish Isles have regularly recorded rainfall, often every day for decades. Their efforts allow us to reconstruct long-term tr...

The Rainfall Observers

Over the past three centuries, thousands of people across the British & Irish Isles have recorded rainfall, often every day for decades. Here we recognise some of the individuals who made particularly important contributions.

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Senior Tories dismayed at Badenoch’s ‘catastrophic’ vow to repeal Climate Change Act Theresa May, Alok Sharma, business and church leaders say plan would harm UK and not even Margaret Thatcher would have countenanced it

Kemi Badenoch's pledge to scrap the Climate Change Act has now been condemned by Theresa May, Lord Deben (John Gummer), Alok Sharma, the Confederation of British Industry, the Church of England, the Catholic Church - all previously mainstays of the Tory party: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Tories pledge to scrap landmark climate legislation Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says her party would axe legally binding targets to cut emissions.

Climate change is already damaging the nature, beauty and heritage we care for. Without deep and sustained cuts to emissions, nature faces an even more perilous future and the places people love will continue to suffer.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The rolling annual mean of Central #England maximum #temperature has once again reached record levels - currently at 15.27ºC beating the previous record from 2002.

You might wonder why there's still uncertainty in developments for the end of the week..as per chart below Friday's low doesn't even appear stage left until tomorrow night...thousands of miles of travel & many possible interactions to pass under the bridge before it affects us

The people I work with are not stupid people and our climate predictions of 30 years ago of global warming have proved to be accurate. Just saying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

Climate change is not a con-job. If you want to know more about the evidence for and causes of #ClimateChange, head to our website: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

Across a swathe of Wales and N'ern England, Sat 20th Sept was the wettest climatological day (09Z - 09Z) since at least New Year's Eve 2024.

Loftus (N Yorks) recorded its wettest day, for any month, since Aug 2002; Trawsgoed (Ceredigion) wettest day since Oct 2018.

Data @roostweather.bsky.social

Lib Dem Tim Farron MP tells party conference Reform UK "spent a lot of their time [at conference] giving a platform to people who think that the Covid vaccines gave the royal family cancer, to self confessed convicted racists, and worst of all, Lembit Opik"

Needless to say that this is not intended as a forecast (it could go wrong this weekend!). However, notable if some places have their 7th drier than average month, if only marginally.

A few showers appear to be approaching London and SE England, which may or may not have spurred this post-script.

Some areas which have not quite reached the Sept ave rainfall may not do so - here's the rainfall accumulation to end of the month from the 12h EC deterministic run on 19th.

No sign rainfall from London towards Cambs, little in parts of Scotland & N.I; this weekend's front dominates!
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YouTube video by Marsh Family "Put Up Some Fences" - Marsh Family parody of "Walking in Memphis" about Donald Trump UK State Visit

🔥 A song about Trump’s visit to the UK.

Very few songs are genius. This one is. Those lyrics are killer.

Awesome work @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social

On Wednesday journalists covering the Trump visit to London / Windsor described the weather as being 'poor' and 'unpredictable'.
Poor? They should live in South Wales this month.
Unpredictable? No! It was correctly forecast - early drizzle then dry but gloomy (I know what they were trying to say).

I'd like to say it's simple ignorance, but of course it's not. At the root is deliberate disinformation pushed by vested interests.

Bluesky isn’t perfect but at least its owner isn’t demanding violent insurrection in the UK from thousands of miles away

Afternoon walk, dodging the showers.
Photo by Kerry Robinson.
#Exmoor

Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons.

Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.

Only true if you look only at mean max temp. That's widely acknowledged.

Good morning from Exmoor 💛

Dunster castle looking stunning this morning.
Photo by Peter Fletcher.