UK and Ireland at 0920 UTC. EUMETSAT.

I’m just packing to go off on an exciting shoot. More on that soon. And funding has just come through for another exciting project. More soon. And I got a call from an old friend about another new exciting venture. More on that anon. But I’m also thinking: I really need a new ironing board cover.

UK and Ireland at 0720 UTC. EUMETSAT.

Today's weather in Timbuktu (cause we've always wanted to go there...), 0730 UTC. EUMETSAT:

METOP-C, 0934 UTC Overpass: @simonleewx.com @drgeoffsmith.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk @eumetsat.int @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @winchesterweather.bsky.social @wessexweather.net @wansteadweather.bsky.social @fifeweather.co.uk @chadweather.bsky.social @wgoodf.bsky.social @weathermizu.bsky.social

METOP-B, 0921 UTC Overpass: @simonleewx.com @drgeoffsmith.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @eumetsat.int @winchesterweather.bsky.social @wessexweather.net @wansteadweather.bsky.social @chadweather.bsky.social @fifeweather.co.uk @weathermizu.bsky.social @wgoodf.bsky.social

UK and Ireland at 0740 UTC. EUMETSAT.

MASSIVE numbers on the Together march against the far right today. Right to Roam has been marching with the Folk Against Fascism bloc - Morris dancers reclaiming rural English traditions from the far right The countryside is for everyone!

METOP-C, 1016 UTC Overpass: @simonleewx.com @drgeoffsmith.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk @eumetsat.int @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @winchesterweather.bsky.social @wessexweather.net @wansteadweather.bsky.social @chadweather.bsky.social @fifeweather.co.uk @wgoodf.bsky.social @weathermizu.bsky.social

UK and Ireland at 0920 UTC. EUMETSAT.

The European Commission has published new guidelines to help Member States adapt Natura 2000 sites to climate change 🌱 We’re proud that several of our publications contributed! Explore Natura 2000 sites in your country with our viewer: natura2000.eea.europa.eu

A timely farside cartoon from 1987 🤣

METOP-C, 1057 UTC Overpass:

Brexit has priced British artists out of Europe. The barriers are political, and they can be removed. Short-term fixes are not enough. Cut the red tape and restore mobility.

METOP-B, 1023 UTC Overpass: @simonleewx.com @drgeoffsmith.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk @eumetsat.int @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @winchesterweather.bsky.social @wessexweather.net @wansteadweather.bsky.social @chadweather.bsky.social @fifeweather.co.uk @wgoodf.bsky.social @weathermizu.bsky.social

Where on Earth is this location? Any ideas? Share them in the comments✍️

Huge thanks to @joshnewburymp.bsky.social for bringing questions about Plantation on Ancient Woodland Sites (PAWS) restoration to yesterday's EFRA Committee session. Here @marycreagh.bsky.social explains the state of PAWS restoration in the UK, highlighting a key disparity 🧵

It's hot - and we can "see" it from space: On 21 March, Copernicus Sentinel-3 measured widespread land surface temperatures exceeding 40°C🥵 Recent extreme heat across the central and southwestern US and Mexico pushed ground temperatures far above seasonal norms according to @noaa.gov data.

Satellites revealed that the 2024 Amazon fires released far more carbon we thought: up to 3 times higher! Using a novel AI method, scientists analysed satellite data on carbon monoxide (as proxy for CO2) and found significant gaps between models/observations: www.esa.int/Applications...

Save the date! The next ESTEC Open Day will take place on September 26th and 27th. Can't wait? Then check out our eggsellent programme on the ESTEC Open Day 2025, featuring astronaut Rosemary Coogan, composer Jeff Wayne and more: youtu.be/bcWgNkl4gLM #ESA #ESTEC #ESTECOpenDay #SpaceRocks

We tracked down the superyacht owned by the world’s sixth richest man. Larry Ellison won’t like what we did to it 🛥️🏴‍☠️

METOP-C, 0937 UTC Overpass: @simonleewx.com @drgeoffsmith.bsky.social @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @eumetsat.int @winchesterweather.bsky.social @wessexweather.net @wansteadweather.bsky.social @fifeweather.co.uk @chadweather.bsky.social @wgoodf.bsky.social @weathermizu.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk

The global food system is systemically fragile in the same way that the global financial system was before the 2008 crash. If it goes it down, we’re looking, as complex societies, at a potential termination event. This week's column. Please read it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@simonleewx.com @drgeoffsmith.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk @winchesterweather.bsky.social @wessexweather.net @wansteadweather.bsky.social @chadweather.bsky.social @fifeweather.co.uk @eumetsat.int @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @wgoodf.bsky.social @weathermizu.bsky.social

Hard to know which is more shocking - the dire warnings of the potential collapse of our food system in the UK or the fact that governments have tried to cover it up. Their complacency is off the scale. We urgently need to switch to growing more food domestically & to restore nature now

UK and Ireland at 0800 UTC. EUMETSAT.

North Atlantic Conveyor: Geocolour - True Colour daytime, multispectral IR at night - 25 Mar 2026 - 0810 UTC.

METOP-C, 1138 UTC Overpass: @simonleewx.com @drgeoffsmith.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk @winchesterweather.bsky.social @wessexweather.net @wansteadweather.bsky.social @fifeweather.co.uk @chadweather.bsky.social @wgoodf.bsky.social @weatherm

METOP-B, 0924 UTC Overpass: @simonleewx.com @drgeoffsmith.bsky.social @eumetsat.int @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk @winchesterweather.bsky.social @wessexweather.net @wansteadweather.bsky.social @chadweather.bsky.social @fifeweather.co.uk @wgoodf.bsky.social @weathermizu.bsky.social

METOP-C, 2019 UTC Overpass: @simonleewx.com @drgeoffsmith.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk @eumetsat.int @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @winchesterweather.bsky.social @wessexweather.net @wansteadweather.bsky.social @chadweather.bsky.social @fifeweather.co.uk @wgoodf.bsky.social @weathermizu.bsky.social

UK and Ireland at 0740 UTC. EUMETSAT. Fascinating to see jet contrails/flight paths within the fog/low cloud structures @petagna.

In July 2025, interstellar object 3I/ATLAS entered our Solar System. ☄️ Our Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer – Juice – happened to be in the right place, with the right equipment, at the right time to see it. Here's the full story 👉 www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup... @science.esa.int @operations.esa.int 🧪🔭

METOP-B, 1026 UTC Overpass: @simonleewx.com @drgeoffsmith.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk @eumetsat.int @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @winchesterweather.bsky.social @wessexweather.net @wansteadweather.bsky.social @chadweather.bsky.social @fifeweather.co.uk @wgoodf.bsky.social @weathermizu.bsky.social

Leaving the regime in place, probably more repressive than ever, and even more determined to develop a nuclear weapon; and leaving other countries to pick up the pieces in the region.

We belong with Europe, not America.

Jesus wept.

A glacier slightly larger than Barbados: this is Jostedalsbreen, Norway’s largest ice cap. Ahead of tomorrow’s UN World Day for Glaciers, these two images (one taken in winter and one in late summer) highlight why monitoring and protecting these fragile ice masses matters more than ever.

Our Co-President, Caroline Lucas, smashing it on Question Time yesterday - it's true, how can we trust the party that spearheaded a referendum that damaged our country and destroyed our economy?

METOP-C, 1121 UTC Overpass: @simonleewx.com @drgeoffsmith.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk @winchesterweather.bsky.social @wessexweather.net @wansteadweather.bsky.social @chadweather.bsky.social @fifeweather.co.uk @eumetsat.int @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @wgoodf.bsky.social @weathermizu.bsky.social

METOP-C, 0941 UTC Overpass: @simonleewx.com @drgeoffsmith.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk @eumetsat.int @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @winchesterweather.bsky.social @wessexweather.net @wansteadweather.bsky.social @chadweather.bsky.social @fifeweather.co.uk @wgoodf.bsky.social @weathermizu.bsky.social

UK and Ireland at 0730 UTC. EUMETSAT.

Europe's weather in motion for past 4 hours to 0740 UTC. EUMETSAT.

In case there was any doubt that Reform loathe nature & rewilding, here’s Richard Tice opposing the new land use framework and saying: “We should be maximising food production, not subsidising productive land to sit idle.” Reform would be a disaster for nature. They need to be utterly defeated.

🦌 How do we set meaningful targets for restoring large-herbivore ecosystem processes in Europe? Join our upcoming webinar to explore this question and the role of large herbivores in nature management. 🦬🌱 🗓️ 20 April | 11:00–12:00 CET | 📍 Online www.eurosite.org/event/webina...

This is great news, but I'm also sad. There is a big piece missing! When are we going to understand that the environment supports everything! @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @europeanmovement.co.uk @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social @marycreagh.bsky.social @carolinelucas.bsky.social @iansollom.bsky.social

No Mow May is back and it's bigger and wilder than ever! 🌱🐝 Leave the mower in the shed this No Mow Movement! Watch your lawn come alive with wildflowers, bees, and butterflies. Pledge to join the No Mow Movement👉 https://loom.ly/ay3YcNA Sign up. Stop mowing. Sit back and let it grow.💚 #NMM

This is why I love working in #EarthObservation. @dundeesat.bsky.social @earsc.bsky.social @esaearth.esa.int @ukspaceagency.bsky.social @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @simonsat.bsky.social @imcoasts.bsky.social @nceoscience.bsky.social @earthobservations.bsky.social @josefaschbacher.esa.int

Hooray for spring! Apricot blossom and Forsythia. Bluetits and jackdaws with their beaks full of nesting material. Blackbird singing.

This is great news, but I'm also sad. There is a big piece missing! When are we going to understand that the environment supports everything! @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @europeanmovement.co.uk @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social @marycreagh.bsky.social @carolinelucas.bsky.social @iansollom.bsky.social