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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Rare night shining silvery wisps of night shining noctilucent clouds visible just now above Teignmouth, Devon. They're unusual because they are so high (around 80km above ground). They're only occasionally seen a month or two either side of the summer solstice latitudes 50-70°.

Silvery wisps of noctilucent clouds are visible and appear to glow across the darkening sky an hour after sunset above Teignmouth

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Thousands of Moon Jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) stranded on the beach in Teignmouth today. More than I've ever see

A liberal scattering of Moon Jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) on the gently sloping back beach of Teignmouth with the village of Shaldon in the distance. It's a bright day and 2 boats sit on the red sand in the foreground

Whitish rings of Moon Jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) about the size of dinner plates randomly scattered on the sand stranded at low tide

Thousands of randomely scattered Moon Jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) glistening as the sun reflects off them on Teignmouth beach

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Really looking forward to being interviewed on stage at the Dartmoor Tors Festival in Ashburton 6pm tonight & offering a rare insight into how we (Beltane Border Morris) embed the spirit of Dartmoor into our wild & 🔥 performance. Still a few tickets left! dartmoortorsfestival.co.uk/beltane-bord...

Dancers in black tatter coats and decorated top hats holding flaming torches aloft with the Tors Inn, Belstone behind. Photo take
N in November 2024.

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Really pleased to hear this news as a firm proponent of responsible access to Dartmoor to both roam and camp but #leavenotrace

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Interesting effect of passing clouds on the projected image of the eclipsed sun accompanied by the tweets of our inquisitive robin! #solar #eclipse

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Like many of you, I've always been fascinated by eclipses. Here's an image of this morning's partial solar eclipse viewed from #Teignmouth #Devon shortly after 11am

Partial solar eclipse projected through binoculars onto a piece of cardboard. The shadow of the binoculars are visible with a roughly 30 percent eclipsed suns looking like two bright eyes.

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Roger Protz @rogerprotz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The Hole in the Wall 500 yr old pub #Torquay Grade II & GBG listed, cobbled floors, beams, rich history, confirms its to cease trading 13 April citing financial difficulties/current climate Locals devastated/popular with holidaymakers. @camraofficial.bsky.social AGM Torquay 11-13 April WE WILL VISIT

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Beautiful spring morning. Quick round trip to Lustleigh and a cuppa and chat at the Dairy by bike.

Celandine, primroses, the Wray Valley trail and me enjoying a cuppa at Lustleigh Dairy in the sunshine with the Church in the background.

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Ordinarily there are more air frosts here in Teignmouth in Feb than Mar. The long term average is 3 in Feb & 1.2 in March. That's 'climate' - the average of the weather. But this year's weather has been somewhat different with 0 in Feb & 3 already in Mar with more in prospect tonight & tomorrow!

Graph showing air temperature between 1st Feb and 3rd March 2025. The temperature remained above zero right through Feb but dipped below freezing on each of the first 3 days in March.

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

A great example of a fascinating natural phenomenon! For those not familiar with it, to form it needs a combination of damp air just below 0C, wet rotting wood from a broadleaf tree, and a specific fungus!

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I've always been fascinated by ✈️ & gazing up the Teign estuary at lunchtime saw an RAF Airbus A400M Atlas fly directly overhead & mulled over its route. Thankfully FlightRadar helped me out! Aircraft often seem to follow the estuary & turn at the Point here in Teignmouth

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Pleasant surprise just now seeing a bumblebee busily feasting on my winter flowering sweet box (sarcococca confusa) with an air temp of just 7.3C!

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Rough seas this afternoon in Teignmouth during #StormHerminia . My barograph trace shows the impressive drop in air pressure this morning. 31mm in my rain gauge today so far, that's a third of January's mean rainfall!

Teignmouth sea front on a windy but bright afternoon with rough seas

A double rainbow over rough seas off the coast at Teignmouth

A barograph trace showing mean sea level air pressure dropping rapidly

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Wonderful surprise to spot and admire some gannets enthusiastically diving into the sea this lunchtime! #Teignmouth #Devon

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Lunchtime stroll along #Teignmouth sea front with some welcome warmth from the winter sun. Max air temp (so far) today 11.5C

Teignmouth sea front with clear skies and the sun above with a single person walking along the path. The sea is calm and tide is out

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

A colourful start to the day here in #Teignmouth. Expect a bright day today with 🌞 spells. Noticeably milder than of late

A colourful sunrise with red and golden hues. You can just see the sea in the distance

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Shaldon Bridge in full voice yesterday afternoon during #StornDarragh. For the musical amongst you it's blasting a slightly flat F#!

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

The relatively calm centre of #StormDarragh captured well on the latest radar sequence ('L').. things will change there today though as winds increase, and the NW gales continue to pound the W and SW of the UK

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The calm before #StormDarragh arrives later on. Yellow & amber Met Office wind warnings from mid-afternoon through until Sunday morning with gusts to 80mph expected on exposed coasts. Take care

Sunrise in Teignmouth in Devon. The underside of the clouds are glowing orange and red

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

"Red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning!" Today's forecast here in Devon: A bright start with some sunshine and feeling milder than yesterday. Skies will become increasingly cloudy around lunchtime with wind and rain expected later, becoming heavy by early evening

A beautiful sunrise here in Teignmouth. Buildings are silhouetted black, beyond you can just see the sea with the tower of St Michael's church just reaching above the horizon.. Above the sky grades from a bright rich orange through red to purple.

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Thanks Octopus Energy for taking advantage of the glut of#StormBert wind power & offering us 2hrs #FreeElectricity at dawn! I made a 🐙 cake, 🍒 cake, 🍫 brownies, 🍪, scones & 🍞 baked, 2 loads of washing done & 1 dried, dishwasher run/cleaned, showers, stuff charged, ☕️ brewed etc all B4🕘. Time for a 💤!

An impressive collection of neatly arranged freshly baked cakes and bread! 20 slices of chocolate brownies, a dozen scones, a cherry cake, a box of chocolate chip cookies, a loaf of granary bread all surrounding a victoria sponge cake with pink octopus iced on it. To the right is a smart meter device.

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

This morning I've mostly been watching our resident female blackcap ignoring high winds & rain guarding our pyracantha by chasing off any bird that dares get near the precious berries!

Side on view of a female blackcap sitting on a branch of a pyracantha bush surrounded by green leaved branches with a scattering of red berries

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Thoroughly enjoyed dancing with Beltane Border Morris at @rammuseum.bsky.social tonight as part of their exhibition Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape. Morris sides are often influenced by their surroundings and their members and we've loved embedding the spirit of Dartmoor into much of our repertoire.

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Here's a quick wave from #Teignmouth #Devon now that the main band of rain,hail, sleet, and snow has passed. Remaining breezy with some wintry showers overnight. Watch out for ice if you're out and about

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Just mapping some #snow impacts across #Devon this morning. Worst affected area is E to W tranche either side of A30 including N half of Dartmoor & parts of E Devon. A30 major disruption Exeter - Bodmin. 92 schools closed out of 550ish (www.devon.gov.uk/schools/clos...). Slow traffic M5.

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

In 1889 Royal Meteorological Society fellow GW Ormerod spotted a mirage in Teignmouth. 135 years later I (also a FRMetS) describe one I saw today. From l to r it's Ore (Oar) & Lead Stone & Hopes Nose. All look elevated & caused by light bending as it passes through layers of air with different temps

View from sea front in Teignmouth towards Hopes Nose in Torquay. You can see the Lead Stone and larger Ore Stone islands appearing elevated by a mirage. Even Hopes Nose appears slightly elevated above sea level

Historic report dated 2nd February 1889 in British Rainfall describing a mirage that George Wareing Ormerod saw from his home, Woodway House, Teignmouth. It reads "Teignmouth, Woodway (V). At noon Oar Stone Rock, and the
sea off Hope's Nose were visible from the upper windows above the
trees, by which they are usually hidden. At 1 p.m. the rock was
again hidden. It must have been raised by mirage about 30ft.
H and sleet showers fell about 1 p.m"

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

First grass (-1.7C) and air frost (-0.2C) of this 'winter season' this morning here in #Teignmouth #Devon. Graphs below show how temperatures have suddenly stepped down a big notch! Chance of further frosts over the next 2 or 3 nights before the milder air looks set to move back in over the weekend

Two graph showing the weather conditions over the past month. The first shows air temperature where up until this morning the temperature has mostly remained above 10C but plummeted to -0.2C. The lower graph shows grass temperature and again has been mostly well above freezing but dipped to -1.7C this morning

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Looks like the cold air is now reaching South Devon according to my weather station as the temperature is now plummeting! Definitely time to dig out my 'big coat'! www.teignmouthweather.co.uk/current.html

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Really looking forward to jointly presenting how Beltane Border Morris have firmly embedded the spirit of Dartmoor it's myths, monuments & meteorology, into their dance repertoire this Friday evening at Exeter RAMM. Tickets (£8, students £5) are selling fast! rammuseum.org.uk/whats-on/ram...

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RAMM Lates - RAMM

Join us for an adult-only night of music, dance, craft and entertainment inspired by our Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape exhibition. Banned from the Moor will be filling the museum with their energetic,...

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Morris dance jigs showcase a dancer's skill & agility & are a much treasured part of our intangible cultural heritage. If your spirits are low on this cold gloomy Monday do take a look these two friends leaping about in Tavistock on Saturday at the Pudsey Day of Dance www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkLU...

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Robert Nutkins & Jonathan Owen dance a double jig to Princess Royal, Pudsey Day, Tavistock, 16/11/24

YouTube video by Ant Veal

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

As I love a bit of an adventure I only let myself buy the bi-monthly Dartmoor News if I've bought it on Dartmoor & travelled there by bus or train or under my own steam!! So today I caught the early train, then an idyllic autumn cycle up the Wray Valley Trail to Lustleigh! Mission accomplished!

My bike on the train with a view out of the window showing a bright sun above the Ness at Shaldon with lots of boats moored on the calm waters of the Teign Estuary.

A photo of the Wray Valley Cycle Trail at Parke near Bovey Tracey early on Sunday morning with not a soul around. Besides the dark green holly bushes on the left, the rest of the picture is full of trees in the rich autumn colours of yellow, gold, orange and red.

Lustleigh Church tower bathed in autumnal morning sunlight. The clock is showing a little after 10am.

Photo of the November and December issue of Dartmoor news alongside my rail ticket and a fresh cup of tea and tasty gazillionaires slice from Lustleigh arranged on a picnic bench just outside the shop.

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I really like this graphic showing 2 potential scenarios for snow early next week. Just rain likely for us down here in Devon though.

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Ant Veal @teignmouthskies.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

After a week of anticyclonic gloom, this was my first view of the blue sky earlier this week here in Teignmouth, Devon. And this is my first post on this platform.....

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