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One to replace the previous pinned post - there’s a whole load of weather on this page so feel free to stick around if you want to with a sprinkle of aurora whenever that peps up. I hope this picture of me and a goose from this morning is suitable for now!

A brief polar maritime airflow over England this afternoon helping to show these deep blue, crisp skies - it’s absolutely stunning here in Reading 👌

Frontal clearance moving over Reading this morning

Warm Front Mondays - the name of an indie rock band that probably exists - hopefully their music would not be as depressing as today.

Incredibly close to the UK October MSLP record with 948.1 hPa at Stornoway at 22Z Saturday, but just slightly north of the centre of #Boelo. It's likely a lower MSLP value would have been recorded had there been an observation station farther south on Harris. bsky.app/profile/danh...

Someone tell the stratosphere that it's only the 25th of October

I’ve just spent 10 hours in @princecharlescinema.com; it’s definitely something I’d recommend if you’re one for loving sleep deprivation and being delirious having had zero sleep (hard to tactically nap during horror).

Very wet in Leicester Square from that squall

Abysmal light levels today here in Reading

My poor umbrella has been annihilated by the wind tunnel near Reading station - absolutely dire times 👎

⚠️ The Met Office has just released a YELLOW warning for heavy rain affecting Southern England from 11am to 11pm today. weather.metoffice.gov.uk/warnings-and... Crossposted with @openvibe.social

Tomorrow looking horrendous for anyone other than a duck

Storm Austen this morning at 06:30 UTC from satellite imagery - Scilly St Mary's was up to 76 mph at 04 UTC this morning; unofficial stations have read higher across Cornwall.

Very neat frontal cloud from Storm Austen - a clear indicator as to when its impacts will start to be felt.

Come on lads - Storm Austen isn’t here just yet

Stunning - the Met Office FAX chart has Storm Austen just offshore the south coast at a pressure of 978 hPa at 06 UTC tomorrow. Cornwall looks set to record wind gusts of 60 - 70 mph widely, and upwards of 80 mph in more exposed areas.

Autumn stuns in brand new photo from Reading

Storm Austen is on its way - a classic baroclinic leaf feature beginning to develop as it begins to undergo deepening.

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UK autumn involves going for a little swim every so often

Amber warning out for Storm Austen in Cornwall - starts at 3 am on Friday and ends at 10 am on Friday.

A small deepening low (not too strong, only ~995 hPa) looks to move through tomorrow morning and make things windier and wetter by the afternoon. In the evening and into the night, showers look to develop in the English Channel, and some may clip the south coast.

What a terrible morning

I had a couple of mates be nosy and ask to watch it, so I've put my section up on YouTube - I did have it unlisted, but then thought I might as well just make it public 😁 www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Q8...

Momentum Demonstration xkcd.com/3312/

It's going to be rather damp here in Reading tomorrow - the far east may just miss most of it. I will have a look at Friday's low-pressure system in the next couple of days - the best model 'agreement' (not a lot of agreement!) seems to show the strongest winds west of Cornwall.

Last night was the coldest of the season so far, with temperatures widely falling below freezing across parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland 🌡️❄️

If anyone is awake and sentient in Essex, I'll be on BBC Radio Essex in about 45 minutes to discuss the damage seen in Walton-on-the-Naze and Frinton on behalf of @torrouk.bsky.social. Please do send in any reports of damage, as well as any videos/photos - every little crumb of data helps

Hello autumn

Absolute drenching for Kent and parts of Essex today - that area of lower heights is really making things miserable in a NE'ly that's helping to keep temperatures around 10-11ºC.

Waterspout seen from Deal this morning

In all the years of posting weather on this little account, I never imagined I'd one day actually be presenting at a weather conference, but I did so today 😁

Absolutely stunning morning 👍🏻

Maximum wind gusts from the Great Storm of 1987 between 18 UTC on 15 October and 16 October 1987; pressure readings are from ERA5 reanalysis.

Introducing AIFS-COMPO, a new data-driven forecasting system for global atmospheric composition up to 10 days ahead. Adapting ECMWF’s AIFS to aerosols and reactive gases, AIFS-COMPO is trained on data from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service. ➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...

03 UTC reanalysis of Friday, the 16th of October 1987, during the Great Storm of 1987, with the use of ERA5 data alongside MIDAS Open data.