🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇧🇪 All smiles… for the first ten minutes anyway! ⚽️ #WalesvsBelgium #Wales #Cymru

Morning. A quiet, settled, predictable week to come… weather-wise, anyway!

A moving night watching Edwyn Collins say goodbye to fans in Manchester, on his farewell tour. Edwyn’s performance, resilience and humour was incredible, despite suffering a stroke 20 years ago. So much love at the Albert Hall for one of our alternative national treasures. @edwyncollins.bsky.social

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Twenty years since my first Cardiff half… ten years since my fastest… probably set for my slowest today! 🏃🏾‍♂️ But still love the challenge, superb support, landmarks en route, and the buzz it brings to our city. Pob lwc pawb. Let's do this! #CardiffHalf @thewallich.bsky.social @ukrunchat.bsky.social

🏃🏾‍♂️Weather-watching for Cardiff Half Marathon? Me too! Here’s the latest forecast. Looks like the worst of Storm Amy will have cleared, to leave a better but blustery day on Sunday. @run4wales.bsky.social @ukrunchat.bsky.social #CardiffHalf #StormAmy

🐈 Love this story. Theatre-loving Fizz named UK's cat of the year… I can vouch that he’s the cheekiest too! Was at an event with Kaleb Cooper in Llandrindod Wells at the Albert Hall. Guess which cheeky ginger strolled onstage and stole the show*?! 🐈 (*It wasn’t Kaleb!) www.bbc.com/news/article...

🍁 It's the autumn equinox... and feeling more like it, after a cold start with patchy frost. ☀️ The brighter, chillier side of autumn to come this week. A welcome change after the wet start to September. #AutumnEquinox

🍁 It's the autumn equinox... and feeling more like it, after a cold start with patchy frost. ☀️ The brighter, chillier side of autumn to come this week. A welcome change after the wet start to September. #AutumnEquinox

Sitting at the mixing desk where Queen, Oasis, The Cure, Manics, Weller, Coldplay… and so many more have been before! Watching my pal Matt Butler, host a production masterclass for the Abbey Road Institute, at Rockfield Studios in Monmouthshire. A mecca for music fans!

Outdoor plans for the weekend? Make ‘em for Sunday if you can… very wet and windy across much of Wales on Saturday.

⚠️ A wet and windy Wednesday, after this weather system brought further rain and strong winds. ☔️ Parts of Wales have now seen more rain in September so far, than through the whole of summer.

It took me by surprise I must say… seeing this year’s bumper crop. 🍇

Very sad news about our friend and former colleague, Jay Wynne. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One to watch for the weekend. Turning very wet and windy on Sunday. It’s possible this low pressure system could end up being our first named storm of the season…

Farewell Rick Davies, founding member of Supertramp. The singer, keyboardist and co-writer behind so many classics, including Breakfast in America, Dreamer and Bloody Well Right. Remembering Rick here in his prime, singing Goodbye Stranger live on Midnight Special. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2f...

Here we go! Good luck to everyone taking part in #Cardiff10k. 👍🏼 Big fan of this race - takes in the city centre sights, with great support en route. Run this many times… today’s definitely one of the wettest! 🏃🏾‍♂️ #Cardiff @run4wales.bsky.social

Outdoor plans for the weekend? Make ‘em for Saturday if you can…

☀️ Summer 2025 is now officially Wales’ hottest on record*. 📈 It beats the previous record, which was set 30 years ago in 1995. • Summer 2025 mean: 16.06 °C • Summer 1995 mean: 16.04 °C (* Provisional Met Office data. Mean = average day and night temperatures combined).

🍁 It’s the first of September, the start of meteorological autumn. It’s set to feel cooler, showery and much more seasonal this week… after what's likely to be Wales’ hottest summer on record.

Sad news about the passing of Ray Mayhew, the drummer with Sigue Sigue Sputnik. They burned brightly but briefly in the mid 80s. The kind of pop-culture notoriety that brings back big memories for the Smash Hits generation. 📀

BBC forecaster Matt Taylor puts his weather knowledge to the test! He’s our special guest on the Cloudbusting Challenge, on the Summer Soundtrack with Derek Brockway. And Terry Walton talks about how the warm weather is affecting gardeners. 📻 BBC Radio Wales 🕰 Bank Holiday Monday 2-5pm

☀️ Plans for the bank holiday weekend? Another warm one, before rain returns later next week…

☀️ Glorious at the Green Man festival! Experienced a few mud baths here over the years… so a welcome weekend of music, fun and sunshine. #GreenManFestival @greenmanfest.bsky.social

☀️ Looks like a fourth heatwave of the summer is on the way for parts of Wales this weekend. 📈 Our threshold is three consecutive days of temperatures above 25 °C (or 26 °C in the far SE of Wales). #Heatwave

Tried out Newport parkrun for the first time, with pals from Cardiff. Great turnout at Tredegar House on a sunny Saturday morning. Like a trail run through the trees and around the lake. Thanks to the volunteers who keep it running.🏃🏾‍♂️ #Newport #parkrun

📻 We’re back with a Summer Soundtrack on BBC Radio Wales! An August Bank Holiday special with Derek Brockway, playing seasonal songs. What are your favourite summer or weather songs… and why? And what do you like most about summer? Let us know! ⬇️

☀️ Lots of heatwave headlines over the next few days - it’ll be the third this summer for some parts of Wales. A fourth for some parts of England. 📈 Our threshold is three consecutive days of temperatures above 25 °C (or 26 °C in the far SE of Wales). #Heatwave

⚠️ Feeling more like Autumn than August today. Turning wet and very windy, with heavy rain moving southeastwards. A wind warning across much of NW Wales, with gusts of 40-50mph on the edge of Storm Floris. #StormFloris

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 “Cardiff, you sound amazing!” Neil Tennant’s reaction to 10,000 fans singing the Can't Take My Eyes Off You medley at the castle! It’s a Sin, Left to My Own Devices, West End Girls, Rent, Heart, Being Boring… a glorious greatest hits gig from the Pet Shop Boys. #PetShopBoys

Have I Got Views For You… lovely surprise to bump into Paul Merton in Barmouth today. Filming for his new series about scenic train journeys. Talk about picturesque places to visit! #Barmouth #HIGNFY

📺 Behind the scenes at the Royal Welsh Show. A snapshot of what it’s like getting ready to go live for BBC Wales Today… checking camera shots, putting mics on and learning scripts… last-minute!

Devastated by this news. Lynda Shahwan was one of the loveliest, most talented people I’ve ever worked with. A wonderful friend and colleague at BBC Wales, who has died while on holiday in Canada. Thoughts are with Sharif and all the family. www.bbc.com/news/article...

📻 We’re back with a Summer Soundtrack on BBC Radio Wales! An August Bank Holiday special with Derek Brockway, playing seasonal songs. What are your favourite summer or weather songs… and why? And what do you like most about summer? Let us know! ⬇️

🦔 The childlike thrill of finding a hedgehog in the garden! Used to often catch them as a kid in Llandrindod… but haven’t seen one for ages in Cardiff. #Hedgehog

Cracking #TOTP from the summer of 1982 on BBC Four. Macca, Hot Chocolate, Irene Cara, Japan, David Essex, Yazoo, Dexys… And forgotten what a fantastic single 'Night Train' by Visage was. This should have been a monster hit! 📺

It’s the weather map farmers and gardeners have been waiting for! The heatwave is over… and the rain returns.

Hard to believe it's 40 years ago today… happy birthday #LiveAid! The vision, audacity and determination to make it happen on such an incredible scale. And *that* line-up! One of the greatest things I’ve ever witnessed in my lifetime. #LiveAid40

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Today is not just Wales’ hottest day of the year… it’s our hottest July day for three years. 📈 The top temperature was 32.4C in Bute Park, Cardiff. And it felt like it, cycling through earlier!

Stevie Wonder enjoying how loudly the crowd sing a medley of ‘You Are My Sunshine’ into ‘You Are The Sunshine of My Life’. In fairness, he probably isn’t aware #Cardiff City fans chant this in a big field all the time! #StevieWonder #Bluebirds

Overjoyed to finally catch this living legend live! Hotter than July in the Cardiff sunshine… and there’s 75 year-old Stevie Wonder, casually knocking it out of the park! Master Blaster, As, Sir Duke, Superstition, Signed, Sealed, Delivered, Living for the City… a solid gold setlist. #StevieWonder

I know it’s all about #Oasis… but can we have a moment for the sonic explosion that is seventy thousand people breaking into Bittersweet Symphony! #Oasis25 #OasisLive25 #Cardiff #RichardAshcroft

Selfies… sixteen years apart! Taken at #Oasis’ ‘last ever’ gig at the V Festival… and at the comeback concert in #Cardiff. Good to be back! #Oasis25 #OasisCardiff #OasisLive25

Happy 80th birthday to the queen of punk and new wave! Here’s Debbie Harry, casually knocking out the rap from Rapture two years ago at Cardiff Castle. Fantastic for any flippin’ age! #Blondie #DebbieHarry

Nile Rodgers’ Chic are just joyful - one of the best bands you can catch at a festival. Seeing #Glastonbury security staff join in the moves for ‘Le Freak’ adds a little extra sunshine to your Sunday!🕺🏻 #Chic #Glastonbury2025

Quite a sight to see nearly 200,000 people blasting out ‘Da Ya Think I’m Sexy’ with Rod Stewart at #Glastonbury. Love how this has gone from being a cheesy disco hit… to the biggest guilty pleasure of them all! 🕺🏻 #RodStewart #Glastonbury2025

Hearing so many acts at #Glastonbury overexcitedly described as ‘iconic’. Surely, the more ‘iconic’ acts there are, the less ‘iconic’ they become. Now, isn’t that ironic… don’t you think? #Glastonbury2025

‘Delighted to be back in Wales - the land of song’… superb Sting set at #Cardiff Castle! Just 30 minutes in and we’ve had ‘Message in a Bottle’, ‘Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic’, ‘Englishman in New York’ and ‘Fields of Gold’. Complete crowdpleasers! #Sting

As Glastonbury collaborations go, Peter Capaldi joining Franz Ferdinand was not on the Bingo Card. But kinda cathartic watching Malcolm Tucker blasting ‘Take Me Out’! #Glastonbury #Glastonbury2025 #FranzFerdinand #PeterCapaldi

☀️ Warming up this weekend… potentially reaching heatwave status across SE Wales. 📈 Monday could be our hottest day of the year so far. The current record of 30.8C was recorded in Whitechurch, Pembs last Friday.

Happy Summer Solstice! The 'longest day' looks like another hot one - with nearly 17 hours of daylight for much of Wales. Look out for some superb sunsets later! ☀️ #SummerSolstice