Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

Lime trees have hung up their mistletoe already, berries and all #wilsflowerhour

The waves of Chesil Beach. 🎧 Watch for 90 seconds and if you need more, listen to the full 32 minute episode. 🌊 A tonic for the end of the week (and beyond). 🎧

I've scribbled something about the potential 3p per mile electric vehicle charge in the UK. llewellyn.substack.com/p/3p-a-mile?...

Economics innit

Pop in your ear buds, close your eyes, and get lost in the booming waves and shooshing shingle of Chesil Beach

You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

Landing at Wolf's Fang, a staging camp on the Antarctic continent 🇦🇶 The team are on the way to Halley Research Station on the Brunt Ice Shelf. They were meant to get to Halley today, but weather on the rest of their route is causing delays. Not a bad view to wait with though, eh?

Extinction of Pizol Glacier 1969 | 2025 Declared extinct in 2022, Pizol Glacier had lost 98% of its volume during the last 18 years 🧊✝️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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2. Culinary Witches

When in the woods, best beware of dead man's fingers lurking there. Reaching up above the ground, a creepy fungi to be found. Happy Halloween everyone. Photo: Sheringham Park by Rob Coleman

BBC news describing a graphic showing computer model wind field and track of hurricane Melissa (looks like it's lifted from Windy app) as a "satellite graph". C'mon guys, you've got experts in the weather centre you can ask.

On the dullest of late October days, the solar panels are still generating 1/3 of the power required to keep the heat pump ticking over to maintain the house at a comfortable 21C. The battery, charged up on cheap overnight rate, is providing the rest.

The eye wall of #Melissa is now moving onshore. It’s an extremely dangerous storm, having maintained its peak intensity of 175 mph, Gusts 215, and pressure of 901mb. If it makes landfall at 900mb it would be a top three most intense landfalls in the Atlantic Basin. My thoughts are with #Jamaica

Extra heat = extra power

I have posted a substack update about the cob job of plug in hybrid petrol cars. If you can't be bothered to read it, I mean who has time these days, you can listen to me read it for you. llewellyn.substack.com/p/hybrid-sch...

Terrifying beauty

#Melissa a staggering cat 5 hurricane 🌀& strengthening Sustained winds 160mph gusts 200mph Central pressure 913hpa The Caribbean, notably Jamaica expecting catastrophic damage from this very slow 🐌 moving storm 1000mm rain possible..London gets ~600/yr! 13ft storm surge

A towerblock of turkey tail fungus for #wildfungihour Got to have a few blooms in there too. Harebells bobbing on the Lodge Hill SSSI in the @chilternsnl.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

If current forecasts hold, Melissa will be the most powerful hurricane ever to strike Jamaica. Sustained winds at landfall may top 140 mph, along with localized rains of 40"+ and major storm surge. Here's my latest update with @drjeffmasters.bsky.social: yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/meli...

Looking very bad for Jamaica and Hispaniola as slow-moving major hurricane Melissa approaches. Over 1m of rain possible in some mountain areas!

A bouquet fresh from the garden to brighten up your weekend

A beautiful afternoon in the @chilternsnl.bsky.social for a @bbowt.bsky.social guided walk around Lodge Hill SSSI with farm cluster coordinator Nick Marriner. Extensive scrub clearance and conservation grazing is leading to recovery of this important fragment of chalk grassland.

Imagine being an atmospheric scientist in the US at the moment

The US East Coast - one of the places that ice lost from Greenland ends up. Counterintuitively, places far from where land ice is lost are most impacted by the resulting sea level rise. The drumbeat remains - mitigation + adaptation.

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...

BBC News - Farmers near Newbury blame extreme weather for poor harvest - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cosmos and salvia still going strong

Heads in the sand latest

First hazel catkins spotted #wildflowerhour

#Spain #DanaAlice #Floods - 12/10 Serious flash-flooding has affected parts of #Tarragona this evening - below footage from La Ràpita. 😢🙏

This looks bad

#Spain #DanaAlice #Floods - 11/10 Dana Alice continues to unleash severe storms/ flash-floods across parts of Eastern Spain - 👇 below #Carcaixent this evening, with 200mm reported, around 100mm of this said to have fallen in an hour! 😢 We hope everyone is safe.

Tulip tree turning

Eastern Spain braces for heavy rain Spain's Mediterranean coast braces for more torrential rain after an alert warning of "extraordinary danger" issued for Alicante in the Valencia region, where deadly floods struck last year.

Red warnings in force for heavy rain SE Spain today #Alice

📣 Today is the last day to order your piece of glacier subfossil wood! 🧊 A smelly and friendly companion that will take you on a journey through time and the history of climate and mankind! 🌲💍 It's here: wemakeit.com/projects/gla... 🙏🙏 Please share widely! 🙏🙏

Impacts

High risk of flash flooding along parts of the Mediterranean coast of Spain. A regular threat at this time of year, but impacts can be severe.

Clever

Amid the constant anti-renewables sentiment so common across our media, this letter today is a blessed relief.

🧊Our researchers have just finished analysing ancient Antarctic ice spanning 1.2 million years of climate history! The Beyond EPICA project extends the ice core climate record by 400,000 years, helping us to understand long-term climate patterns and improve future predictions.

Great appeal here to protect a fantastic ancient woodland in Buckinghamshire. I've just walked through this landscape – the ancient royal hunting forest of Bernwood is being bisected by HS2 – and it is a magical area. Good luck @bbowt.bsky.social! www.bbowt.org.uk/news/wildlif...

National Hedgelaying Society display model on show at the National championships, demonstrating regional hedgelaying styles in bonsai form. Bonus stiles thrown in. @lakesstiles.bsky.social

Storm Amy has been record breaking ⚠️ An air pressure of 947.9 hPa was recorded at Baltasound, Shetland, provisionally setting a new UK lowest pressure record for October. Northern Ireland provisionally recorded its strongest October wind gust on record, with a gust of 92 mph at Magilligan.

Geeking out at the National Hedgelaying Championship on the Waddesdon Estate in Bucks. Around 100 competitors laying in 10 different regional styles over 5 hours on a very challenging hedge.

Tiree's data did go out, although the Met Office website has 102 mph - would be the joint strongest wind gust at Tiree on record. #StormAmy

#StormAmy is knocking on the door - or maybe blowing the door open and marching on through! The white/yellow area shows where wind gusts may exceed 100mph.

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