I don’t know if it’s a comfort that the red map hostility extends to France or not TBH.

It looked for a while as though May might be an increasingly unusual cooler than average month, until the recent heat pulled it to the third warmest May on record for the UK. Details of all of Spring across the UK in the blog below

Memories of the Summer of 1976 endure in the British memory, 35.9 °C, parched fields, standpipes in the streets. 50 years on and, in the last decade alone, temperatures above 36 °C have been recorded on six days in the UK and the UK’s highest record temperature now stands at 40.3 °C.

Top marks to @mykl.sparkle.blue for spotting that UK state had a secret 200-year project to hide an image of St Paul's in its tax data:

A full house of Norman #FontsOnFriday from St Peter’s Buckland, St Breward, St Tudy and St Materiana’s Tintagel.

I was a lot nearer to this one than to Kenley and very sticky it was

Oooff! Cooling off from tomorrow but another hot night to come for some.

With temperatures for a hot summer’s day while we’re still in Spring I felt for the sheep which have not yet been sheared. But they were acting in line with @metoffice.gov.uk advice to stay in shade and avoid vigorous exercise.

Today’s UK records are part of a wider picture in Europe and beyond.

One of those events where we look with concern at our own forecast a few days out, but it was on the nose.

Also for #WildflowerHour some highlights from the hay meadows at Pudsham, maintained by the #Dartmoor preservation association. Heath spotted orchid from the dry meadow, southern marsh orchid from the wet one and clouds of sanicle in the lane @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Bogbean with a supporting cast of marsh lousewort and bog cotton putting on a #WildflowerShow in a #Dartmoor valley mire for #WildflowerHour. I like this take on Chelsea week . @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together. #WildflowerShow #Dartmoor @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

We're expecting a very warm period of weather from this weekend. Temperatures will be well above average and could reach 30C in the south east 🌡️ Read our latest press release ⤵️ www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Recovering our popularity after the last Bank Holiday weekend….,

Oh wow, they did it! Someone Made a climate viz conference!

It isn’t #wildflowerhour and it’s the wrong week for #HedgerowChallenge but all these were in just a mile or so of flowery #Dartmoor Lane near Ilsington. Plus the clapper over the Sig is so pretty. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Helping young people understand weather, climate, and the science behind them, is a core part of the Met Office’s public service role. Learn more about how we support learning for children and young people in our blog post 👇 www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2026/ho...

These are great visuals thank you. A useful post to pin for handy reference for climate communicators

Fields of marsh orchids and my first wild rose of 2026 from Dawlish Warren for #WildflowerHour. Most of the #CarrotsandPeas challenge came from there too, but the corky-fruited water dropwort was in my garden. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @warrenbirding.bsky.social

🗳️ ConstituencyClick 544/650 — Secretary of State 🟩🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟥 play.jmoxley.co.uk This is a fun game for politics geeks: thanks to @ajepolitics.bsky.social for pointing me at it

Don’t wash those chair outfits just yet….

Bluebells near Hound Tor #Dartmoor at their absolute peak

Only thin bell ringers can enter the bell tower at St Paul de Leon Staverton Devon. #AdoorableThursday

This is the time of year where the “too clean to wash; too dirty to put away” chair in the bedroom fills up with part-worn outfits for different seasons

Hate clickbait? You'll love this forecast! We can expect a bit of everything in the UK this week.. cloud, sun, frost, rain, showers - but none of that is exciting. Watch to the end to see how boring it gets!

For #WildflowerHour welsh poppy , sanicle, yellow pimpernel, pignut and double flowered cuckoo flower. Plus bulbous and creeping buttercup for #buttercupchallenge. From the Dart Valley @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

#MorningWalk ahead of the rain. Mill, bridge and holloway near Staverton, Devon.

A cracking week for #WildflowerHour. Hawthorn and archangel for #HedgerowChallenge and green-winged orchid, star of Bethlehem and burrowing clover from the meadows of South Devon. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

This is a delightful experiment even if I do want someone else to learn the hard way if seagulls wise up over time.

TBH most of the tender things are going to have to take their chance but we’ve earthed up the potatoes and brought the bean seedlings in

Four from the North Devon coast path this week. Erodium from the dunes, a combination of gorse, sea campion and sweet violet from the cliffs, thrift from the shingle and wood sorrel as my contribution to #WoodlandPlants. #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

The Saxon font from All Saints Clovelly for #FontsOnFriday; its simplicity an ideal backdrop for their Easter garden.

Relocated Norman door for All Saints Clovelly #AdoorableThursday. Font tomorrow!

As someone of mixed heritage I like this a lot

⚠️⚠️ Amber weather warning issued ⚠️⚠️ Strong winds across northern England, southern Scotland and northwest Wales Saturday 19:00 – Sunday 03:00 Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning Stay #WeatherAware ⚠️

#StormDave set to bring 90mph wind gusts and 20cm snow N UK this #Easter #weekend Warnings ⚠️ issued More details.. #weatheraware www.metoffice.gov.uk

#StormDave has been named and is forecast to bring damaging winds across northern parts of the UK, with some disruptive snow possible in northwest Scotland later on Saturday and into Easter Day #WeatherAware

I should have been looking up for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #TreeFlowers but I was hunting Moschatel. Didn’t find it but these were some compensation. Just one Devon lane was coated in climbing corydalis, the scurvy grass was by the sea rather than on a salty verge, heath violets & pink purslane

We are still feeling the effects of some of the carbon dioxide from the Titanic, from the first Model-T, from the first steam engine. This chart is the most important chart in climate policy and yet most folks don’t know about it. Carbon dioxide is forever.

Gorgeous clouds and Hay Tor in the distance. #Dartmoor #LoveUKWeather

British electricity mix at 2pm on 25th Mar 2026 🔥Gas 2.9% Biomass 6.0% 🍃Wind 48.9% Solar 22.4% Hydro 0.5% ⚛️Nuclear 12.1% ➡️Imports 7.3% Other 0.0% 🪫Storage 0.0% 🔌Generation 37GW 🌍Carbon intensity 64 gCO2e/kWh vs target of annual average 50-100 gCO2e/kWh by 2030

Spring well advanced for #WildflowerHour. This week’s newcomers are cowslip, wood anemone, opposite-leaved golden saxifrage and the first cow parsley. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

I need to teach them how to 🧪!

Also, March is about to exhibit some lamb-like behaviour

Met Office in the Cloud was a great event and this blog gives a glimpse into the long term strategy we have been and will be pursuing

River flows echoing the uneven rainfall distribution of winter. Fellow soggy sufferers of Eastern Scotland, we feel your pain from here in South West England

A couple of #WhiteFlowers in the mix for #WildflowerHour but I was most excited by the very early marsh violet. New this week with wild garlic, wild arum and shepherd’s purse. Devon. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

#SignsOfSpring for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social Beautiful wild daffodils very early on the banks of the River Teign. Coltsfoot, green alkanet, wild strawberry & elm leaves a whole month ahead of Home thoughts from abroad: Oh to be in England now that March is there! @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Dartmoor