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@metjam.co.uk

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Jamie. BSc Environmental Science Student at University of Reading. Avid weather nut from coastal Kent doing weather updates for the SE. Space weather & astronomy thrown in whenever that looks interesting too! metjam.co.uk

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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · Nov 13

Hello Bluesky - I suppose I had better put somewhat of an introduction together considering the flurry of followers I’ve had! I’m an avid weather nut and will post anything that interests in me that regard so feel free to follow if that’s what you want to see 😂

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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 6h

C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is looking like it'll be a very nice photographic comet and faintly visible to the naked eye although it will be fairly tricky from light-polluted areas to spot. The moon will have less influence in the next week - it will be visible to the NW after sunset.

MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 7h

Contrail.

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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 8h

An interesting weather fact from last week here at Reading, in the midst of the current settled weather:
The 6th saw the sunniest October day since 2016, with 9.5 hours of sunshine recorded during the day.

MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 1d

Very official me 😂

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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 1d

Good talk by @sarahhants.bsky.social on site investigations at the @torrouk.bsky.social conference today.

MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 1d

It feels far too early to be on a train at this time on a Saturday

MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 2d

Anticyclonic gloom - it’s like being back home 😁

MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 5d

bsky.app/profile/metj...
May be the same one?

MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 5d

Fireball overhead in Herne Bay at 19:10 UTC - brightest one I’ve captured.

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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 5d

Fireball overhead in Herne Bay at 19:10 UTC - brightest one I’ve captured.

MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 5d

Aye I won’t let that die in the time I’m here 🤣

MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 5d

A few reports of a fireball over Margate this evening - inclined to think it’s this one in the meteor cameras at 19:19 UTC. Does anyone have any further reports?

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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 5d

Thanks - certainly am! I am getting very ingrained in the Met society 😂

MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 5d

Stunning sunset here in Reading.

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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 5d

A little difference to yesterday 😂

MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 6d

There’s a happy chappie 😄

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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 6d

ECM AI deciding to go for 2010 at the end of the run in mid October - more fantastic cold rain for us all.

MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 6d

A nice show of lenticular clouds around Reading this afternoon - no doubt the Chilterns are aiding them.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 6d

The @metoffice.gov.uk use weather station observations to reconstruct changes in UK average temperature since 1884.

@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social produce the ERA5 reanalysis which reconstructs global weather every hour back to 1950 using a weather forecast model.

Their estimates agree. Just sayin'.

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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 6d

Sunny and warm today across the south - up to 20/21ºC.

MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 6d

That's certainly a strong indicator for drier and calmer conditions over the UK in the coming week - likely to be calmer and perhaps foggier (cloud cover will really depend on where the high pressure decides to orientate itself). The dryness of 2025 seems to continue..

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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 8d

#StormAmy from NASA Worldview today.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 8d

Well done to the Warming Stripes La Rochelle team!

Starting climate conversations in France! 👏

Warming Stripes painted in the harbour area of La Rochelle, France

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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 8d

‘Hit harder than expected’ seems to be the colloquial term for “we didn’t prepare adequately enough so we must blame it on the forecasters instead” 👍🏻
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Widespread damage as Storm Amy 'hit harder' than expected

More than 60,000 homes were left without power as wind and rain swept across Scotland overnight.

www.bbc.co.uk

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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 8d

A nice show of the mature stage of the Shapiro-Keyser cyclone lifecycle with #StormAmy.

MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 8d

947.9 hPa at 05 UTC this morning at Baltasound is provisionally the lowest October pressure ever recorded at a UK station - substantially beating the previous record of 950.9 hPa by 3 hPa!

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