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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

September #siteofthemonth is Hollin Hill, a tenanted farm in the Howardian Hills to the north-east of York. The compound sits on a steep south facing slope on mineral soil. In 2004, British Geological Survey was alerted to a landslide event at Hollin Hill and monitoring equipment was installed.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The COSMOS-UK soil moisture summary for the month of August is now available, here: cosmos.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

COSMOS-UK daily soil wetness graphic for August 2026

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

August #siteofthemonth is Hartwood Home Farm, an upland farm for stock rearing in Lanarkshire, hosted by the Scottish Government. Soils are heavy, poorly drained gleys. After heavy rainfall & animal activity, the soil is liable to poaching – severe churning, structural breakdown and waterlogging.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

cosmos.ceh.ac.uk/News_Events During this evening’s solar eclipse around 90 to 96% of the Sun will be covered in the UK. Across the COSMOS-UK national soil moisture monitoring network, we anticipate changes in several of the environmental variables we measure.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The COSMOS-UK soil moisture summary for the month of July 2026 is now available: lnkd.in/ey5F6DNR Continued heat and lack of precipitation throughout much of the UK this July saw a drought being declared for much of Southern and Central England, and all of Wales, towards the end of the month.

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

After record low July rainfall, what's next for UK river flows? Below normal to exceptionally low flows across England, Wales & NE Scotland will continue with record lows anticipated for August & drought impacts into the autumn. 🎥 Dr Katie Facer-Childs with the latest UK Hydrological Outlook.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The daily COSMOS-UK soil wetness graphic for the month of July is now available.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The COSMOS-UK soil moisture summary for the month of June 2026 is now available cosmos.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Daily COSMOS-UK soil wetness status for the month of June 2026

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/dd... We are pleased to say the latest COSMOS-UK dataset has been released via the Environmental Information Data Centre. It contains daily/sub-daily hydrometeorological and soil moisture observations from the COSMOS-UK monitoring network - Oct 2013 to end of 2025 .

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Daily and sub-daily hydrometeorological and soil moisture data (2013-2025) [COSMOS-UK] - EIDC

This dataset contains daily and sub-daily hydrometeorological and soil moisture observations from the COSMOS-UK (cosmic-ray soil moisture) monitoring network from October 2013 to the end of 2025 . The...

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

June #siteofthemonth is Easter Bush, hosted by our colleagues at UKCEH Edinburgh, on improved grassland and a typical loamy mineral soil type at the Bush Estate at Penicuik. Near real-time data on how Easter Bush is faring in 2026 is at the Data page of the COSMOS-UK website, www.cosmos.ceh.ac.uk.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

cosmos.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul... The COSMOS-UK soil moisture summary for the month of May 2026 is now available. Early May saw rain and windy conditions across the UK, before a period of higher pressure brought a record-breaking heatwave toward the end of the month.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Daily COSMOS-UK soil wetness status for the month of May 2026

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

May #siteofthemonth is Cockle Park, managed by @newcastleuni.bsky.social Farms and where strategic and adaptive research investigates questions around food security and sustainability. The soil type is mineral soil and the surroundings are used for growing cereals and oilseeds.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

cosmos.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul... The April Soil Moisture summary is now available. April carried on the trend seen in March, with increasingly warm weather and significantly below average precipitation across England and Wales leading to many sites throughout the Midlands and South becoming dry.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Daily COSMOS-UK soil wetness status for the month of April 2026

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

April #siteofthemonth is Chobham Common, one of the largest National Nature Reserves in the South East and amongst the finest remaining lowland heaths in the world. It is managed by Surrey Wildlife Trust and home to 100 different bird species, including the very rare Dartford Warbler.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

cosmos.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul... The March soil moisture summary is now available. Changeable weather brought below-average rainfall across England and Wales, which saw many sites becoming drier, particularly in the Midlands, Southern England and Wales.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Thanks to the eddy covariance technique and existing sensors across the network, the UKCEH team have produced sub-daily estimates of sensible heat flux (H), latent heat flux (LE), and evapotranspiration (ET) from 2014 to 2024 for 45 sites across the UK. Take a look here: doi.org/10.5285/c0b5...

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Sub-daily actual evapotranspiration data for 45 monitoring sites (2014-2024) [COSMOS-UK] - EIDC

This dataset provides derived measurements of land-atmosphere energy and water exchanges from selected COSMOS-UK environmental monitoring sites across the United Kingdom, collected between 2014 and 20...

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Daily COSMOS-UK soil wetness status for the month of March 2026

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

March #siteofthemonth is Bunny Park, a farm run by the @uniofnottingham.bsky.social University of Nottingham to support their undergraduate courses in animal and veterinary science. The site is surrounded by arable crops on sandy to sandy loam soils.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

cosmos.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul... The February soil moisture summary is now available. Above-average rainfall across most of the UK led to 95% of sites maintaining soil wetness or becoming wetter during February.

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Matt Fry @mattfry-ukceh.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Fantastic new @ukceh.bsky.social dataset now out: 30-minute actual evapotranspiration from 45 sites for up to 10 years, with measurements co-located with rainfall and multiple soil moisture measurements from our @cosmosuk.bsky.social network over the same period: catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/c0...

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Sub-daily actual evapotranspiration data for 45 monitoring sites (2014-2024) [COSMOS-UK] - EIDC

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/water... Please join David Hannah and the University of Birmingham for this in-person and online free event to mark the UN World Water Day (22.03.26). 📅 16 March 2026 🕑 2:00–3:30 PM (UK time) 💻 Register to join online 📍 Elm House, Room G08, University of Birmingham, UK

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Daily COSMOS-UK soil wetness status for the month of February 2026

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

fdri.org.uk/events/Feedb... Calling all practitioners and researchers with an interest in UK hydrological data! Do you want to learn about ways you can access FDRI (Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure) data and discuss your needs for future access? If so, see details in link.

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Feedback Session - Accessing FDRI gridded time series data with Python and R notebooks | Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

hydro-jules.org/data-driven-... Applications open on 02.03.26 for the Data Driven Approaches to Hydrological Science Summer School. A free online course for postgrads, ECRs, consultancies, monitoring agencies, industry profs to advance their understanding of data-driven hydrological science.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

February #siteofthemonth is Hadlow, based at Hadlow College, Kent’s only rural college, offering an extensive range of land-based courses at all levels. The field is grazed grassland, part of a 57-hectare farm of grazing, arable crop and forage production.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJAb... COSMOS-UK was on the ITV News on 13 Feb 2026. (43 mins in). Dr Jon Evans describes the science behind the COSMOS-UK network, Jasmine Hughes talks about the high water levels in aquifers and a COSMOS-UK site owner explains the devastating effect of rainfall extremes.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

cosmos.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul... The January 2026 soil moisture summary is now available. Higher-than-average rainfall in many regions has led to a soil moisture recovery across the COSMOS-UK network after a drier end to December.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

audioboom.com/posts/885879... COSMOS-UK features in the latest episode of the UKCEH podcast, 'Counting the Earth' - go to 1 min 18 secs. Dr Jon Evans explains the nuclear physics behind the measurement of soil moisture at COSMOS-UK stations and why is it important to measure soil moisture at all.

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Let’s talk drought. Yes, that’s right, drought! Our weather is experiencing extremes - from flooding to drought - so Alice and Sue delve into this whiplash weather with UKCEH senior hydrologist Lucy B...

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Daily COSMOS-UK soil wetness status for the month of January 2026

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The UKCEH’s COSMOS-UK network is designed to use low energy cosmic ray neutrons from the Sun and outer space to measure soil moisture. It also detects raised levels from energetic solar events that can impact critical infrastructure. Such an event was picked up in 2025. cosmos.ceh.ac.uk/News_Events

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

#siteofthemonth for Jan 2026 is Bickley Hall Farm, a 210-acre organic working farm/HQ of Cheshire Wildlife Trust in rural Cheshire. It's wildlife-friendly ethos supports hundreds of feeding farmland birds. A great venue for environmental education field trips. Soils are sands and sandy loams.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

cosmos.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul... The December 2025 soil moisture summary is now available. The soil moisture recovery across the COSMOS-UK network largely stalled during a drier spell late in December.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Daily COSMOS-UK soil wetness status for the month of December 2025

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Daily COSMOS-UK soil wetness status for the month of November 2025

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

December #siteofthemonth is Plynlimon, one of the oldest sites in the COSMOS-UK network, having hosted environmental monitoring equipment since the 1960s. It is also one of the highest, at 529m in the Cambrian Mountains, on high organic content soil, supporting semi-natural grassland.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

cosmos.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul... Soil moisture summary for November 2025 is now available. November saw above-average rainfall throughout the UK, leading to continued increases in soil moisture across all COSMOS-UK sites.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... ONLY 3 more days to catch the BBC Radio 4 Farming Today programme featuring the science behind the COSMOS-UK network and how the data is used to inform research on soil moisture patterns and projections on the impact of climate change.

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Farming Today - 30/10/25: An uncomfortable transition? The buzz about Asian hornets. Cosmic ray neutrons and soil moisture - BBC Sounds

The boss of one of the UK's biggest farming companies says a painful transition is ahead.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

November #siteofthemonth is Spen Farm, at the University of Leeds ‘Smart Farm’, a research farm working with industry and academics to tackle modern agricultural challenges. The farm hosts a range monitoring research tools alongside COSMOS-UK to measure the impact of agriculture on the environment.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

cosmos.ceh.ac.uk/resources/mo... The October soil moisture summary is now available. October saw increases in soil moisture across much of the UK, with conditions steadily moving back towards typical autumn levels.

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Monthly summaries | COSMOS

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Daily COSMOS-UK soil wetness status for the month of October 2025

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... On Radio 4's Farming Today programme today, UKCEH Micrometeorologist, Dr Jonathan Evans, discusses how the COSMOS-UK cosmic ray neutrons science works to measure soil moisture, soil moisture trends this year and how climate change will impact UK farming in the future.

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Farming Today - 30/10/25: An uncomfortable transition? The buzz about Asian hornets. Cosmic ray neutrons and soil moisture - BBC Sounds

The boss of one of the UK's biggest farming companies says a painful transition is ahead.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

October #siteofthemonth is Loddington, East Midlands, run by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust Allerton Project, researching new farming methods so that commercial farming and environmental rejuvenation can co-exist. The clay soils protected crops from the worst of this year’s dry conditions.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

cosmos.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul... The September soil moisture summary is now available - see link below. September's wet conditions helped soil moisture recovery across norther and western regions, but southern COSMOS-UK sites remained notably dry.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Daily COSMOS-UK soil wetness for the month of September 2025.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Our September siteofthemonth is Cwm Garw, on the southern side of the Preseli Mountains in Pembrokeshire, on a sheep farm, run by independent landowners. We are always grateful to the support of our site hosts – be they part of a large estate, a farming collaborative or operating single-handedly.

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COSMOS-UK @cosmosuk.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

cosmos.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul... Our COSMOS-UK Soil Moisture Summary for August 2025 is now available. Despite some recovery in July, soil moisture levels across the COSMOS-UK network remained dry at many sites throughout August, reflecting below-average rainfall and warm temperatures.

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