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Prof Penny Endersby
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CBE FREng. Chief Executive of the Met Office. Weather, climate, physics, digital & data, with a scatter of wildlife, Dartmoor, old churches and choral music
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www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/con... Yes it was that gloomy!
A map of the UK with graded colour scale from grey to gold (mostly grey) showing nearly everywhere had below average sunshine, especially further west with just a tiny sunnier than average patch in north of Scotland
November 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Fulfilling day @wmo-global.bsky.social congress including a reception at the UK mission to share the work we did on the Parliamentarians’ Guide to climate change and later hearing Secretary General Guterres recognise that WMO has been at the forefront of the fight for science and truth
A gathering to celebrate the handover of WIS2 from a four nation effort to a WMzo trust to enable the use of this easy route to data sharing by all nations Stuart Brocklehurst deputy VC of Exeter University, President Al Mandous of WMO and me at the reception at the UK mission My view from the UK seat in congress of UNSG addressing the plenary A zoom in to the SG, UNSG and President on the dais and big screen. Guterres listening intently through his earpiece to translation from Arabic
October 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Walking #ByTheSea for #WildflowerHour. All these were from Berry Head/Brixham. A brisk wind made focus challenging. #WildflowerID welcome on the second photo which I think is tall melilot but could easily be wrong
A collage of carline thistle, thrift, viper’s bugloss, rayed knapweed, sea campion, ivy and scabious flowers A yellow flower from the pea family growing in clusters on woody stems with narrow leaves
October 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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All the weather on the north edge of Dartmoor today. Played it safe with mostly lanes and field paths.
A moody sky above a valley of green and ploughed fields and hedges Black sky behind sunlit fields, rough hedge in foreground A bend in a wet lane with half rainbow above green sunlit fields Fingle Bridge , an ancient three arch bridge across a dark river with white riffles. Set in a deep gorge brilliantly sunlit on the right side with blue sky above
October 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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National Met Services don’t give warnings for each other’s countries because of respecting each other’s authoritative voice. When Met Eireann show warnings in the north they’re from the Met Office. Maps on our app do show whole of Ireland for rain etc.
A Met office rainfall chart conveniently obliterating all of Ireland with rain
September 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Keeping an eye on the evolution of a deep low towards the weekend (again, sorry!)
Three scenarios for where we might see the strongest winds on a map of the UK. Most likely in Scotland but NI, Wales and West Midlands is scenario two and mostly north of Scotland is scenario three
September 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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I was on the South Moor yesterday. This is the Teign Estuary from Horridge Common but the sea was visible all along to Plymouth
A view across a patchwork of fields and hedges framed in dark foliage. The silvery water of the Teign Estuary feeding into a blue grey sea with drifting grey clouds above
September 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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No shortage of #SeedHeads for #WildflowerHour on my walk near Widecombe in #Dartmoor. I do think hops, top left, are some of the most beautiful and I was amazed that the very dry bluebells, bottom right, were just ready to spill their glossy black seeds. IDs in alt text. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
A collage of seedheads top left to bottom right: hops, red campion, sheep’s bit, pennywort, foxglove, yarrow, meadow thistle, European gorse, hemp nettle, marsh thistle, knapweed, bluebell
September 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Dartmoor ponies, Corndon ridge, nice clouds
A dark mare and foal with an extensive view over farmland behind. Fluffy white cumulus below bands of higher cirrus
September 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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I went looking for a wryneck and found it, but these poppies by the sea wall on the Exe Estuary were too pretty to pass by @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #WildflowerHour
A cluster of wind-blown poppies with the concrete sea wall behind and the sand and water of the estuary behind that
August 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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It seems to be a good acorn year but this veteran oak had a bad case of knopper gall which had affected nearly every one: looked more like flowers or catkins. #WildflowerHour #Fruits @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
A cluster of brown frilly acorns still attached to green leaved oak branch
August 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Probably a good time to post this from the @cabinetofficeuk.bsky.social . We are glad to have this option for the extreme cases where we might need to warn people to evacuate such as flash flooding
A warning panel from the Cabinet Office saying that the emergency alert will be tested by being sent to all mobile phones across the UK at 3pm on Sunday 7th September
August 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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It’s a joy to be singing the services at Westminster Abbey this weekend with the wonderful Ramsey Singers. 700 at evensong yesterday apparently. Not too late to come along to Eucharist at 11:15 (Ives and Tallis) or evensong at 15:00 (Howells and Bairstow)
Me in gown and hood outside the North door My colleagues walking into the choir early this morning, view between gilded choir stalls towards the West Window
August 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Postbox topper done right! @metoffice.gov.uk @wmo-global.bsky.social
A red pillar box in front of a line of suburban houses. Knitted topper from top to bottom has sun: cloud, raindrops, rainbow and grass
August 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Here’s the photo from @carlowweather.bsky.social
A huge yellow buoy on its side on a backlit foam covered shore with a woman silhouetted against the light standing nearby. The buoy is a lot bigger than she is
August 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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A couple of things from Devon Wildlife Trust nature reserves for #wildflowerHour. Autumn ladies tresses from @warrenbirding.bsky.social and water pepper from Dart Valley. I tasted the seeds and they tingle like chilli (at your own risk!) @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Two twisty white spirals with a blurry pink sea pea at bottom against yellowish marram grass Green weeping willow shaped leaves and spires of thin green seeds
August 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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I’ve sorted my #WildflowerHour #DaisyFamily into things that look like daisies and things that really don’t, especially mugwort and hemp agrimony. Various South Devon locations, IDs in captions @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
A collage of five daisy-shaped flowers: lilac sea aster, white chamomile, yellow ragwort with brown centres, dainty white and pink Erigeron and sunny yellow fleabane with large centres and short petals A collage of six: pineapple mayweed and tansy which have just the yellow centres and no petals, mugwort and Canadian fleabane with small shaving brush flowers, white yarrow and fuzzy pink hemp agrimony
August 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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#PollinatorPals for #WildflowerHour challenge. Two different bees on knapweed and Himalayan balsam, meadow brown on scabious and a small fly in a large bindweed flower. All South Devon. My attempts at insect ID in captions: corrections welcome @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
A bee with a tawny back ?tree bee on knapweed A bee ? Buff-tailed bumble on Himalayan balsam. I caught this one just as it backed out. A meadow brown butterfly on scabious White hedge bindweed trumpet with a small greenish fly (no idea!) on the stamens and a hole in the neighbouring petal
August 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Just reading A Passionate Sisterhood about the women in the families of the Lakeland poets. Contains agonising accounts of watching a child die of smallpox and a young adult of consumption/TB. Beggars belief that advanced societies could be contemplating taking us back there
An image of the cover of the book by Kathleen Jones with a portrait of a Victorian woman reading
August 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Stock Ghyll before and after #StormFloris Cumbrian infrastructure coping well with 50-75mm of rain
A stream bed from a bridge with bare rocks and water in the middle. Houses on the left bank The same view but the rocks now covered with white water
August 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Yellow mountain saxifrage from Borrowdale Marsh willowherb from Wansfell Not a flower but this parsley fern is so beautiful Trailing St John’s wort from Cat Bells
August 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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A few more finds from Cumbria
Wild pansy from Latt Rigg Yellow loosestrife grows everywhere Sneezewort from Esthwaite Mountain groundsel from Sail pass
August 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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I’ve managed to be in unerringly the wrong place for the #wildflowerhour #HarebellChallenge and #DeadnettleChallenge and now I’m in the Lake District I’m not #ByTheSea Here’s a belated thread anyway @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Harebells aplenty now I’m here Brittlestem hempnettle Marsh woundwort also a dead nettle A whopper of a heath spotted orchid
August 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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@metoffice.gov.uk A pilgrimage to the wettest place in England today: Sprinkling Tarn and the nearby rain gauge at Seathwaite Farm, which took a bit of tracking down
Sprinkling Tarn : just about not raining A close up of the rain gauge enclosure Me in hiking gear just outside the enclosure (which is one of the Environment Agency ones according to the sign on the gate
July 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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@mothiduk.bsky.social please help me with this upland beauty?
Large brown moth on scree with yellow stripes and white dots on wings and elegant two tone antennae
July 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM