New Year's Eve, Windsor

Magical

Christmas in July

🔺️ AEMET RED now issued for Sol y Guadalhorce region of Malaga - 27/12 - valid to 4am, Sunday. Serious flooding situation - if living in this area please STAY SAFE - stay aware of flash flood risks. Warning 120mm possible in 12hrs. 👇

More sandbanks at low tide seen from a drone - this time over the Kyle of Tongue. #Scotland #DronePhotography #DJIMavic3Pro #AwesomeFoursome

2025 has been a busy old time for British  Antarctic  Survey. Let’s take a look back on some of the best bits: Extreme logistics – The RRS Sir David Attenborough completed an epic operation 600km from the nearest station, collecting kit and establishing logistics ‘hubs’ in the middle of nowhere!

Love that sound

First time capturing this lunar transit #WaxingCrescent 🌒 (20%) over N Kent @whitstablelive.bsky.social 🎅 @davidbflower.bsky.social @stormhour.com @metoffice.gov.uk @thephotohour.bsky.social #StormHour #loveukweather

Parents & anyone else up early on Christmas morning: there’s a bright pass of the International Space Station over the UK, just after 6.15. Well, I say it’s the ISS. Could be Santa heading home… Exact timings for where you are at www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary....

Thousands of miles from home, but the festive spirit is exactly the same! 🎄Here's how people celebrate Christmas on the RRS Sir David Attenborough and at our research stations down south ☃️

This year is on course to be the UK's hottest since records began, according to the Met Office, as climate change continues to drive temperatures to new heights: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Climate proxy

You want to know about this site that lets you explore data collected by the HMS Challenger from 1872–1876, an expedition that laid the foundation of oceanography. 🌊 challenger-expedition.sams.ac.uk/explore

Meteorologist cracker joke

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

Will it, won't it, and why? Me and other lovely weather folk talking about our favourite topic! www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/nak...

At this time of year I become obsessed with the little lines of moss you find along mortar joints. Wall screw-moss (Tortula muralis) does this superbly, seeking out the lime-rich concrete #urbanplants #bryophytes #Conwy #wallplants

Will it, won't it, and why? Me and other lovely weather folk talking about our favourite topic! www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/nak...

Cold frontal clearance

Special delivery: how a Royal Mail postbox ended up in Antarctica

Heavy rain will lead to flooding and disruption over the coming days ⚠️ All the latest warning info can be found here 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning

Weather geekery

The Goring Gap from Lardon Chase is a spectacular view of Streatley and Goring on Thames, which are picturesque villages on the borders of Berkshire and Oxfordshire. The River Thames runs through the valley on its way to London and cuts between the Berkshire Downs and the Chilterns. Oil on board.

Nothing on the telly tonight? How about a live volcanic eruption

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

“Green farming schemes are a vital lifeline for me, helping build my resilience to these shocks whilst providing cashflow to help buffer me financially.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Clearing the summer pots and found these little munchers sitting tight waiting for tender spring shoots

If I had a euro for every meeting in which someone asked if we'd thought about using AI to fill gaps in data, I'd have enough euros to fill them with actual weather stations.

This Dutch government booklet dropped through the door of my son's flat in Amsterdam today. The translated page gives a flavour of the contents. We live in interesting times.

Interesting juxtaposition on my feed

Large parts of Sri Lanka are likely to see exceptional rainfall through the coming days, with some areas seeing more than one month's worth of rainfall within 4 days ⤵️

There are several extreme historical UK & Ireland windstorms which are of interest to insurance companies to understand wind risks, e.g. January 1884 dropped to <930mb over Scotland. Postdoc position in Reading (working with Aon & QBE) to explore these risks: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

What an inspiring story. I do a lot of voluntary conservation work and it's dominated by grey-haired retirees, so it's heartening to see young folk getting involved www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Springline Project - a unique collaboration between ecologists, artists and local communities to create this stunning 10-metre mural that we revealed to a packed audience in Cholsey on Friday! Thank you to everyone who made this happen #MendtheGap @annadillon.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social

Trevor, you're the 3rd person to have reported seeing Hawthorn both fruiting & flowering this week! The other 2 were over on X.

A tatty-looking field scabious clinging on through the first hard frosts of winter, while a freshly flowering hogweed shrugs off the chill #wildflowerhour

Sunday morning in Hambleden @chilternsnl.bsky.social

I spoke about attempts to break this catastrophic drought through cloud seeding in the latest Naked Scientists podcast www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/nak...

I spoke to Chris Smith on The Naked Scientist podcast about whether cloud seeding could bring an end to the devastating drought affecting Iran, with their biggest cities on the brink of running dry. www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/nak...

Two exciting postdoc positions available! Historical windstorms - working with two insurance companies to explore UK wind risks: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Extreme event storylines - working as part of a EU collaboration on event attribution: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Afternoon stroll on the Thames floodplain

Beautiful capture of snow cover over the Pennines and Lake District fells from #NASA Terra satellite. Oh to be up in the hills on a day like this!

Amidst all the AI overhype, one application is living up to the promises

Proper dinner plates now. Settling on the grass #uksnow 4/10

uksnowmap.com looking good this morning! Send your #uksnow reports if it’s snowing where you are!

@uksnowmap.com Very brief and soggy #uksnow SL6 2/10

"Annual total energy consumption for each property was between 40% and 67% lower than the UK average..." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Miscanthus plumes + a low winter sun = 😍

Coppicing season has begun. Structures around the cut stools are to (hopefully!) protect the regrowth from pesky deer