Keeping up my #FontsOnFriday streak and back to the Tudor from St Mary’s Totnes. I rather like the C20th cover as well. It reminds me of the old Met Office “chicken on a stick” weathercock logo.

From a fellow 4’11” (much easier for women, I know) I found this interesting. And sane and sensible.

We’re continuing to resolve issues and make improvements to our app. Here’s what’s coming up 👇 This week we’re adding the surface pressure video and fixing an issue so everyone can use the app without needing to share their location. 🧵 1/3

Assessing risk requires understanding hazard, likelihood and impact and ideally at a global level by an authoritative multi-lateral body to allow governments to determine how they can best protect citizens 🧪

Enjoying the sunshine in the southeast? ☀️ 18.6°C has been provisionally recorded at Kew Gardens, London today, making it the highest temperature recorded in the UK in February since 27 February 2019, when 19.2°C was recorded at Heathrow Airport 🌡️

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

A Norman font from St James Christow for #FontsOnFriday bisecting last week’s Saxon and Tudor pairing.

Definitely more gearing up for Spring for #WildflowerHour today. First dogs mercury, stitchwort and speedwell. Easy #TheWinter10 and two to spare. South Devon @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

A duo of #FontsOnFriday from St Andrew’s Buckland Monachorum. The C15th octagon is very nice but it’s eclipsed by that rotund Saxon tub font. That is a full fat font!

This is the biggest upgrade to our modelling suite for three years. The irony of the improved forecasting of rain is not lost on us! Lots more details for the aficionados in the link

Mmm-hmm

A picture perfect scarlet elfcup from the muddy banks of the River Teign

#TheWinter10 from the churchyard of St Mary’s Wolborough: still didn’t manage to get inside though. All very soggy. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Now, who was asking me about the pressure chart? @jomorrison.medsky.social was it you?

Thanks to everyone who has given feedback on our refreshed app. This week we are: - Simplifying how you get forecasts for other locations. - Making it easier for you to save and manage locations. - Enhancing the layout for comparing locations.

Precious hazel gloves fungus on ancient coppice hazel at Orley Common. Classic temperate rainforest indicator as taught me by @guyshrubsole.bsky.social. Just as my monthly rain gauge passes the 200mm mark. Ho hum!

Several sites have provisionally set new January daily rainfall records, some are shown in the table below 👇 Katesbridge has provisionally recorded its wettest day on record, while Plymouth (Mountbatten) also saw a notable record at a site with over 100 years of observations

#StormChandra has been named and is forecast to bring strong winds and heavy rain to the UK on Tuesday ⚠️ Flooding and travel disruption is likely in places and there will also be some significant snow across higher ground in some northern areas ❄️

It’s a windy weekend for many of our mountain areas, if you're heading out, check the latest conditions before you go ⛰️ Some of our high level wind data is currently unavailable, so use our Mountain Weather Forecast pages for the most up to date info 👉 weather.metoffice.gov.uk/specialist-f...

A huge thank you for your feedback on our refreshed app. Please keep telling us what you like and what further improvements you’d like to see. We recognise there’s plenty to come and we’re committed to sharing updates on the new changes weekly. We’ve made these upgrades based on latest feedback 👇

Managed to find a tiny gap in the rain and Stover School hiding below the sun on my #MorningWalk. Click for full image

Although it makes grim reading “If current rates of biodiversity loss continue, every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse.” it’s good to see biodiversity loss being considered as the threat to our national security which it is. Response requires understanding 🧪 www.gov.uk/government/p...

A fast moving coronal mass ejection (CME) means the northern lights may be visible overnight, and perhaps on Tuesday night too The arrival time of the CME is uncertain, but aurora sightings are possible in northern Britain and perhaps in southern areas depending on cloud cover.

A cheering #TheWinter10 for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social celandine, snowdrop nivalis & elwesii, winter heliotrope, creeping bellflower, daisy, sweet violet, white periwinkle, primrose and hazel. All south Devon. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

I’ve been running the private then public beta as we steadily improve it according to feedback. Holding out for the auto update on the old version as I like to experience what members of the public are experiencing. Excited for the launch and the future improvements it will facilitate.

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In other things I learned from @newnhamcollege.bsky.social alumnae magazine yesterday, folic acid and its benefits for healthy pregnancy was discovered by Newnhamite Dr Lucy Wills in the 1930s

This banner, newly restored by @newnhamcollege.bsky.social seems as sound today as it was then

Dartington Hall #MorningWalk

⚠️⚠️🔴 Red weather warning issued 🔴⚠️⚠️ Wind across the Isles of Scilly and parts of Cornwall Thursday 16:00 – 23:00 Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning Stay #WeatherAware ⚠️

⚠️⚠️ Amber weather warning UPDATED ⚠️⚠️ Very strong winds for the Isles of Scilly and parts of Cornwall Thursday 16:00 – 23:00 Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning Stay #WeatherAware ⚠️

Machine and hand embroidered lanscape artwork by Alison Holt, UK textile artist #WomensArt

This is a great article. Really worth reading through. 🧪The global chart is one I often use when people quote 1976 at me. And yes I’m so old I can remember it!

Although its very cold at the moment in the UK, 2025 was both the warmest (with a mean temperature of 10.09°C) and sunniest (1648.5 hours) on record. Here is a climate and weather #dataviz summary for the last year. #climatechange #globalwarming.

At the @metoffice.gov.uk we are very consistent in the language we use to convey certainty & uncertainty. But we also do social science research on what users think as we articulate or illustrate, for example, chance of rain or attribution of extreme events to climate change. The quiz is worth a go!

There'll be several attempts at incursions of less cold air from the west/Atlantic in the days ahead This could bring some disruptive snow/rain/wind in the process ... but with uncertainty in the details.. www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2026/me...

Thought I’d have a look at istheukhotrightnow.com Note these are anomalies from the 1992-2020 mean not absolute values, but with climate warming faster than 30 year averages can keep pace widespread cold anomalies are relatively infrequent.

Nice article in The Independent about our collaboration with @metoffice.gov.uk re their climate data + our #NewYearPlantHunt data: www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new... Great to work with Grahame Madge at MetOffice & huge thanks to the fab @pennyend.bsky.social! www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

2025 has broken historical climate records with provisional Met Office figures showing: 🌡️ warmest year on record for the UK 🌞 sunniest year on record for the UK 🌂 Below-average rainfall (90%)

2025 has broken historical climate records, with provisional Met Office figures showing it has been both the warmest and sunniest year on record for the UK. Find out more: www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

If you squint you may be able to spot a trend…..

Pretty chilly in Stover Country Park on my #MorningWalk but a good chance to test out the newly opened paths while the mud was less squashy.

And a whole bunch of warnings including an amber for snow in Scotland so not a laid back shift. Happy New Year team and weather watchers

@ukbutterflies.bsky.social I don’t know how unusual this is but here’s a pristine comma from the Kingsbridge Estuary this morning

Delighted to see this too! Well done to Piers.

Warm congratulations to Stephen on this well-deserved recognition

Arctic air will move down over the UK come the end of the week, with an increasing risk of snow in places ❄️

Also the harbour was full of grey seals, some very close inshore. I guess they had taken refuge from the rough seas earlier in the week

Amazing pod of dolphins off Berry Head today. At least 60 individuals but probably nearer 200. I think these are common dolphins but bottlenose also possible

The thickness of #Arctic sea ice dropped to a new all-time record low this year around the North Pole (data from PIOMAS). More in my latest 'climate viz of the month' blog: zacklabe.com/climate-viz-... #OpenScience #SciComm #DataViz #OpenData