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Meteorological stats and phenomena for East London. FRMetS Conditions https://www.weatherlink.com/embeddablePage/show/e3a1d9968b954a97895098a26bd9fbe9/slim AKA @wanstead_meteo over on X

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Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · 6d

Anniversary of one of those touchstone moments tonight that sowed the seed of a lifelong obsession with meteorology.
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30 years on from Low M: the Great Storm

This month marks the 30th anniversary of the Great Storm. Some 18 people were killed as winds gusting to nearly 100mph affected London and the South East. Around 15 million trees were lost with Sev…

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Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · 5d

I obviously need to go back…

Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · 5d

Indeed but it was dreich that day. Not much vis with an incoming storm and headwinds.

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Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · 5d

The hills into Mallaig seem to go on forever, and at the end of what is a very long ride. I was vocally cursing the last two.

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Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · 5d

Pedalling Dutch style wansteadmeteo.com/2025/10/16/n...

Netherlands: 222km of cycling bliss

Gliding along on billiard table-smooth paths in the dunes of the Hollandse Duinen National Park: there can’t be many better cycling experiences in the world. Hours earlier we’d disembar…

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Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · 5d

Further to your show a few months back @mrjamesob.bsky.social
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Time to say ‘enough’ to extreme, unregulated online pornography

The internet cannot remain a vast, lawless realm: the harm across society is becoming too obvious not to act

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Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · 6d

Anniversary of one of those touchstone moments tonight that sowed the seed of a lifelong obsession with meteorology.
wansteadmeteo.com/2017/10/02/3...

30 years on from Low M: the Great Storm

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Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · 8d

Not one moment of silence for the poor innocent souls who’ve been caught in the crossfire of this madness of the past two years. The celebratory tone of Trump and other speeches is awful. @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · 8d

This #Trump speech is dreadful. One mention of ‘Palestine’ a very long way in. Why do I fear a stitch up.

Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · 19d

I wonder if it’s why many mountaineers prefer coffee to tea? (Purely anecdotal evidence there)

Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · 19d

Spot on!!

Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · 19d

Brits voted for Brexit so they’ll vote for Nige’s nonsense because they love cutting off their own noses.

Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · 24d

Depends if the BBC are too busy bigging up Nige’s latest nonsense.

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Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · Sep 4

Yet more heavy showers today brings the month total to 19.1mm, the wettest opening 4 days to September locally for 27 years!

Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · Sep 4

The last 10 minutes of @mrjamesob.bsky.social on LBC has been the best summary of thin-skinned Farage I’ve heard. Compulsive listening.

Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · Sep 2

Here’s another taken seconds later.

Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · Sep 2

I hadn’t realised that. I put asperitas only because of the issue with mammatus. Cheers.

Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · Sep 2

And my own stats reveal Wanstead was 0.2C cooler this summer compared with 2022.

Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · Sep 2

Heathrow, SJP were fractionally cooler this summer by just 0.152C so should be in the 2022 area - unless stats I was sent by the Met Office were wrong!
And CET is tied.
When did we abandon CET for referring back to previous seasons?

Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · Sep 2

Flagpole at the bottom of a garden of a house in East Ham. These were once common but most have rotted away over the decades. Proud dockers and other local workers would fly a Union Jack during national events. Nothing new here - everything’s a cycle. @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · Sep 2

Mammatus is banned?

Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · Sep 1

Nice patch of asperitas in this cloud.

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Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · Aug 29

16.6mm of rain overnight, the greatest 09-09 fall since January 4th, the night the rain turned to snow.

Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · Aug 28

Too much rain last year, not enough this year...
'The challenge is these weather extremes . . . are becoming more pronounced and more regular,' said Jamie Burrows, crops board chair at the National Farmers’ Union. www.ft.com/content/7376...

British farmers brace for a second year of poor harvests

Dry weather hits crop yields as the UK industry also contends with reduced government subsidies and tax changes

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Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · Aug 20

The 86th anniversary of this awful tragedy. wansteadmeteo.com/2013/08/01/l...

London’s worst-ever lightning tragedy

One of the worst weather-related tragedies ever to hit the London area happened 86 years ago this month. What started as a bright and sunny day in Valentines Park, Ilford, turned into disaster at t…

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Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · Aug 17

Just two days in the hot spell made the 23.5C cut. Despite the hype it felt a bit Championship quality rather than Premier League. wansteadmeteo.com/2015/06/26/p...

Premier league of heatwaves (1850-2025)

The media are always keen to say ‘a heatwave is on the way’ when it is more likely to just be a short spell of fine weather with temperatures a few degrees above average. Forecasts of 3…

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