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Humphrey Lean

@hwlean.bsky.social
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Met Office scientist based at University of Reading. Working on convective scale/urban scale prediction.

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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Remarkably warm night for late Sept in my garden in Reading following a very warm day yesterday.
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Nice convective clouds around this afternoon (seen from the University of Reading).
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The heatwave as seen in my garden in Earley, Reading. Four days with the maxima not far below 35C (highest 34.8C) and three tropical nights between. Thankfully much cooler now.
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Heading into an unusually hot spell for late May. This is the Met Office app this morning for Earley, Reading.
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Red sunrise at Reading Station. Saharan dust?
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Nice cloud with ice falling out somewhere near Chippenham.
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Snowing and settling in Reading just now!
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Tiny amount of snow in Reading this morning.
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Got much heavier after I sent that!
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
A little bit of wet snow seen in Reading just now towards the back of the band of rain moving south.
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Cold night in Reading although cloud rolled in before dawn but with enough gaps to give a great red sky around sunrise.
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Missed the total phase of the lunar eclipse because the moon was too close to the horizon. Did get to see the shadow receding across it though.
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Last night in Reading at around 17:30 UTC saw one of the brightest and most complete rainbows I’ve seen for a while (the photo doesn’t do it justice).
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Nice fall streaks seen from Reading earlier today. The front produced a small amount of rain (less than 0.1mm) but we did have one loud clap of thunder.
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
First heavy rain in Reading for a long time!
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Rainbows in the sky just now.
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Scuddy clouds earlier today seen behind the @ecmwf.int crane from @unirdg-met.bsky.social
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Up early this morning and happened to catch the sun still looking very red from the Canadian smoke.
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Lenticular clouds behind the crane on the @ecmwf.int building site seen from @unirdg-met.bsky.social at about 07:30 UTC this morning.
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Great view of storm to the north from Henley.
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Soil moisture just below the lawn in my garden for April with rainfall. Drying during the dry weather at the start of the month slowed by slight rain mid month. The rainfall event on the 23rd caused a spike but then fell off much more rapidly presumably because the soil below was still very dry.
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Quite lumpy clouds in Reading earlier (although definitely in the category of looking better in the photo than to the eye).
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Eclipse seen from Reading (taken with DSLR with solar filter)
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Reading 0625: The start of another glorious day.
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Graupel shower in Reading just now.
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Yesterday and todays Reading temperature traces showing the sharp changes on the fronts as we experienced the brief incursion of warmer air. Also nice to see how the two days curves in the same air mass match up.
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Really rapid rise in temperature in Reading from around 2C to 11C in an hour or so resulted in our windows misting up on the outside and water running down them which is a bit unusual.
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
The best I could do with a DSLR for the view of the moon close to Venus this evening.
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Big drop in temperature here in Reading as the front/line convection went through after being in warm air overnight.
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Lenticular cloud seen just now from the University of Reading.
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Lovely crisp morning.
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Humphrey Lean @hwlean.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Autumnal view of Whiteknights Lake this morning.
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