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Weather Rescue at Sea: Recovering Historical Weather Observations From 19th Century British Naval Ships We present the Weather Rescue at Sea dataset, generated from a citizen-science project which transcribed millions of weather observations contained in 19th Century UK Royal Navy ship logbooks. This c...

Weather Rescue at Sea: Recovering Historical Weather Observations From 19th Century British Naval Ships

Adding hundreds of thousands more marine weather observations from the 1860s to global datasets

Teleti et al. (2026): rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Poet Laureate checks out the Met observations site

Poet Laureate discusses weather

The Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, achieved a longstanding ambition by becoming the latest @uniofreading.bsky.social weather observer after admitting he didn’t get on our @unirdg-met.bsky.social degree course while on BBC Radio 4’s PM programme!
www.reading.ac.uk/news/2026/Un...

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Danke

Proud to say that one of my aurora pictures from the 20th of January has made it to the front cover of March's issue of 'Weather' by @rmets.org.

A similar sky on 22nd February 2021.

The dust is well and truly here, blue sky is incredibly muted.

A panorama of the Saharan dust at sunset here in Herne Bay this evening.

The Saharan dust has certainly moved in - first picture was taken at 12:21 and the second one at 14:18.

17°C!

The flies are presumably handing down punishment to anyone who dares to wear shorts this early in March

THROW THOSE CURTAINS WIDE

The dust is coming - it's beginning to show up in ceilometer profiles in western France at La Rochelle and seems to roughly correlate with the purple band seen on satellite imagery here.

Had a crow model for my camera earlier in the fog - seemed rather happy.

Looks like Parker Solar Probe got hit by a fairly fast CME shortly before it began its latest dive into the solar atmosphere.

New forecasts and visualisations available here: swxforecastlab.org/forecasts.html

A very foggy evening here in Herne Bay - never properly cleared.

Can't believe you escaped

Hey guys just enjoying this lovely sunshine, hope you are too 👍🏻

The fog is taking its jolly sweet time to clear here in East Kent 🤣

This fog should clear by this evening although obviously pinning down temperatures and blocking out any sunshine currently 👎

In terms of minimum temperature date records, 22 have been broken or matched since the beginning of the 2000s. December 2010 has done some heavy lifting, accounting for 9 of these.

It's been 6 weeks...

Jan: 10
February: 13
March: 9
April: 8
May: 4
June: 9
July: 12
August: 10
September: 9
October: 10
November: 10
December: 10
We are overdue for some May heat I think.

An interesting fact:
Out of all possible 366 maximum temperature date records for the UK, we have beaten or matched 114 of them (just over 31%) since the beginning of the 2000s.

18.2°C at Wiggonholt appears to be a new date maximum record for the 3rd of March, beating 17.8°C at Manston in 1938.

A couple more weeks and there'd be nicer alignments to be had, but not bad for the third of March!

Been greeted by a drone at sunset today - was a little jealous of what I saw through the controller screen I must say 😁

Another one from sunset yesterday - been a while since I've used the long lens so nice to bring it back out again. 😁

Still not too bad compared to what it could be if I turned back at Reculver 😂 - final count for yesterday was 24,704 steps and 12.4 miles walked

Aye