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Jill Rutter @jillongovt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Question to academics and economists out there: how many children who inherit houses from their parents worth over £ 650k (double inheritance tax threshold) or £ 1m do not already own their own home? @arunadvani.bsky.social @helenmiller.bsky.social @timharford.ft.com

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I mean it’s an interesting line to take…. www.itv.com/news/meridia...

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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A colourful end to the day here in Glastonbury. It was worth the walk I think. Now it is time for a glass of wine 🍷

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 24/09/2026

🟦 CLEAN FEED | A snippet from tonight's Shipping Forecast...complete with insuppressible yawn. 😂

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Julian Mayes @julianmayeswx.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thursday - a fine afternoon, ideal for visiting RHSWisley, Surrey, recent drought capital of UK. Gardens superb, as usual; southern half of main lake just a puddle and many shrubs had badly scorched leaves - never seen anything like that. They irrigate so assume due to strength of hot sunshine.

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Paris, France, has now recorded 100 days above 25°C (77°F) in 2026 so far. This has never happened before in a calendar year since records began 154 years ago, in 1872.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Channel 4 expose on Reform is telly ecstasy. Prestige TV is great but can it beat watching Nigel Farage, James Orr and James Johnson getting stitched up for blatant corruption? No it cannot

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Julian Mayes @julianmayeswx.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My rainfall here in Molesey, Surrey. August total: 9.6mm - can anyone beat that ? (i.e. lower, in the UK). LTA is around 55mm. July and August total 9.6mm. So grass still yellow here.......

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Neil Kaye @neilrkaye.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Here in the UK, 2018 was the hottest summer on record, then 2025 was the hottest summer on record and now 2026 is the hottest summer on record as well as being very dry. Here is a climate/weather summary for the past 12 months showing the multiple heatwaves we have had. #globalwaming #climatechange

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Erich Fischer @erichfischer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Projection has become reality 22 years ago, Christoph Schär et al. published a landmark paper in Nature explaining that the 2003 heatwave was a harbinger of things to come. The study featured an iconic figure - shown in countless lectures - illustrating how outlandish the event was at the time

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Julian Mayes @julianmayeswx.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Here we see a radar image showing a shower neatly missing Molesey (the 'East' of East Molesey is obscured by the light blue) - not a drop fell here. Just a trace today - a major shower-fail. Dire state of the garden continues.

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Julian Mayes @julianmayeswx.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A whopping 1.3mm in Molesey, Surrey from Tuesday night's cold front. A friend in Brussels reports 25mm from the same system. Isn't that nice. As you can see, Bushy Park on Surrey / London borders is now green and verdant again. 😱 Well at least Weds evening was quite sparkling.

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Simon Collins @sirgeogy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“Is a River Alive?” asked @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Right now, the River Mole is on life support, having dried up in the Mole Gap on 1 Aug— repeating ’22, ’76 & ’49. The EA fish rescue last week moved hundreds to safer flows saving them from the drying pools turning into algal soup.

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Julian Mayes @julianmayeswx.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Here is the July rainfall anomalies map (from the monthly hydrological summary of CEH), data from the Met Office. So much better than the map the Met Office issued to the public, identifying areas failing to reach 0.1%, i.e. no measurable pptn., albeit derived from 0.2mm tipping bucket gauges.

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Julian Mayes @julianmayeswx.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

.......and the grey thing is called a cloud. 'Library image' Sarah?

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Julian Mayes @julianmayeswx.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Some of us have bemoaned the lack of useful detail on the July rainfall %s map of the UK as it only showed areas <20%rather than the extent of 0 pptn. The July hydrological summary from CEH provides such a map - from the MO. Link to current review here nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/nhmp/monthly... Bravo.

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Monthly hydrological summaries | National River Flow Archive

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Jon Moses @jon-moses.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

From a father's friend. The hills above Crickhowell are still burning. Smoke in the house again last night. There appears to be five major fires in Wales now. The same as the whole of France.

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Prof Richard Betts @richardabetts.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Nope, it’s the weeks of hot, dry weather made more severe by global heating due to fossil fuel burning that has increased the risk of wildfires. The landscape is so dry that any ignition can start a fire that becomes uncontrollable. Fields of crops and grasses are not “rewilded” but have burned

Front page of the Daily Mail newspaper “eclipse special” with headline “Rewilding link to record fires”, beneath a photograph of people watching the near-total eclipse of the sun with the title “Britain finally gets a break from the sun (for a few minutes!)”

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 13/08/2026

A temperature above 37°C has only been recorded on nine days in the UK since records began – three of those occasions have now been in 2026, including today. Reading University has recorded its warmest August day on record (since 1908), and second warmest day overall.

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Julian Mayes @julianmayeswx.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I expect no-one will see this now (in Europe) but a few spots in England warming up late this evening - subsidence inversion for some upland sites. But Morecambe nearly 27C at 22Z & 23Z (warmest place); air being drawn down in foehn-like situation, local winds ESE, reinforced by land breeze?

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton

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Julian Mayes @julianmayeswx.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

After today's heat, people around Bude will wonder what the fuss is about. This reaction may apply (again) to Scotland and NI.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Revealed: just 20 out of of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation, as UK burns in fifth heatwave of this summer - FOI request by me @andyburnham.bsky.social needs to level with the country about the climate crisis & set out radical plan to tackle it 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires

Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwaves

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Julian Mayes @julianmayeswx.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

You don't get this kind of local insight from Mr Farage (and he originates from Planet Earth, I'm told).

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Peter Gibbs @petergibbs.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Crispy Cliveden

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Julian Mayes @julianmayeswx.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Watching this made my afternoon.

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Julian Mayes @julianmayeswx.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Rather shocked to have seen the 30C level reached already today (12BST at Chertsey, Surrey) despite variable cloud cover in these parts. Was hoping such vile heat and humidity would be troubling just East Anglia by now.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The north getting all the nice weather again. I blame Andy Bloody Burnham.

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Julian Mayes @julianmayeswx.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So we've had the press release about the changes affecting BBC weather and the Met Office as new data supplier / forecaster. Could someone in the know please spill the beans as to when these changes will start? @petagna.bsky.social @roostweather.bsky.social @danholley.bsky.social

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This sums up the uselessness of a lot of Conservative ginger groups. Half of all MPs are signed up members yet they keep in place a leader whose environmental policy is “you can’t be a parliamentary candidate if you have Boris Johnson’s climate policy”. Great work guys!

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

SEND COFFEE TO THE NEWSNIGHT STUDIO! URGENT ORDER!😂

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

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Julian Mayes @julianmayeswx.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Sad to report the death of John Powell MBE, weather observer at Penmaen, Gower, local radio broadcaster for Swansea Sound and all-round 'old-school' gent. Weather observing at his idyllic site taught me more about meteorology than so many text-books. So fortunate to have been his deputy observer.

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Julian Mayes @julianmayeswx.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I've been looking through some old issues of the Climatological Observers Link Bulletin. The following note caught my eye, from Aug 1973. "Members are reminded that the cost of First Class Mail will be 3 1/2 p in future". Members would have submitted their observations by mail, of course.

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"Embrace Mediterranean life"

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Just embrace it

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Julian Mayes @julianmayeswx.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Obvious point - Lingwood is an entirely rural site. The most interesting part of the press release is the rejections section. I looked through the gates of Cardiff Bute Park met site in the 1980s and doubted that it could be an official site! A new meaning to 'the greenhouse effect'?

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 27/07/2026

Excellent point about BBC's Burnham interview

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

NEt zeRo iS ToO expENsiVe

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 25/07/2026

This is a former editor of the Murdoch-owned Sun newspaper commenting over on Twitter...

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Julian Mayes @julianmayeswx.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Ah. I'd just spotted that your map and website league table did not show Teddington but cleverly your autotext here does. I don't like being in the hottest part of the UK! At least it isn't "always Heathrow". (Teddington met site is in the middle of a field on the edge of a parkland area).

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Julian Mayes @julianmayeswx.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Time I corrected myself - looking at the <1mm icons again, all sites I could find had indeed recorded 0.2, 0.4mm or similar. Trivial nit-picking? Maybe but since those random tips most likely due to dew, July may be rainless over a remarkably large area - and would manual gauges show any pptn?

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Julian Mayes @julianmayeswx.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I was just about to go out and buy a copy - not sure what to do now! A real 'classic' front page.

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 25/07/2026

You see this frontpage and do genuinely wonder what on earth the conversation must have been between the senior editors when they were laying it out...

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Beach pictures from a climate scientist on holiday in France, 2026.

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Julian Mayes @julianmayeswx.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Most of those <1mm icons mean zero, I think. The area that has remained dry this month so far aligns quite well with the area expected to miss out on measurable pptn this weekend. If this pans out, this month will have an exceptional area of no (or insignificant) pptn.

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