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Graham Birkett retweeted
Jun 13
My cartoon @thetimes Saturday. Prints available to buy from
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Jun 11
‘Defence has to be our number one priority’ – Former Labour MP Madeleine Moon
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Jun 10
Welcome to the 2026 Purple Emperor season, which officially opened today at Bookham Commons (NT), Surrey, with this piece of appallingly bad behaviour...
It's going to be Great.
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Sea surface temperatures are already surging to record high levels for this time of year in a key El Niño monitoring area
➡️ Sign up for our next monthly state of the climate webinar to learn more: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/w…. We'll also be talking about the hurricane season outlook
ALT Line graph time series of daily Nino 3.4 sea surface temperatures from 1982 to 2026. This year is currently a record high for this time of year. Data is from NOAA OISSTv2.1, and the graphic is created by Climate Central.
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Graham Birkett retweeted
Jun 8
Conditions remain unsettled to begin with this week, but from the weekend there will be a return to warmer and drier weather.
Find out more in our news release 👇
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Graham Birkett retweeted
Jun 7
Ukraine war: Russian strikes nuclear fuel site near Chernobyl
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Jun 6
Ukraine launches hundreds of drones at St Petersburg
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Jun 6
RT @extremetemps: ‼️HISTORIC EVENT : 15c IN ANTARCTIC WINTER
Absolutely insane what we are witnessing:
15.4C/60F Esperanza 🇦🇷Minimum 6.0 !…
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Graham Birkett retweeted
A large Saharan dust plume has stretched across the Atlantic from the west coast of Africa towards the Americas. CAMS data shows that large parts of the Caribbean are most impacted.
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Having only put up this House Martin nest box 2 weeks ago I thought that it was too late and this year it would be empty, however, when I woke up this morning to here the bubbly chirps coming from just outside my window there was only one thing it could be...
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Graham Birkett retweeted
Jun 3
What weather conditions should we expect during the next 10 days? 🌦️
It will remain changeable and cool until next week with rain and gusty winds at times. But later next week, it may turn warmer and drier.
Watch our latest 10-day trend with Alex ⤵️
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Graham Birkett retweeted
Jun 3
The latest metoffice 3 month seasonal forecast for summer 2026...
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Graham Birkett retweeted
Jun 3
It will be a joy to perform at @wigmore_hall tomorrow as part of their 125th birthday celebrations! And it's LIVE on @BBCRadio3 at 7:30 pm. So listen in around the world! Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Haydn, and of course Bach. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002wtr…
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Graham Birkett retweeted
Jun 2
Trump ‘very frustrated’ with and feels deceived by Netanyahu over length of war says US professor
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Jun 2
UN warns of El Niño extreme weather risk
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Graham Birkett retweeted
May 31
Like a butterfly
Display of the Bohemian Waxwing bird
📹 wildsafarisaga and birdsinbloom
wild Safari Saga
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Graham Birkett retweeted
May 29
El 26-may, Central England registró su mayor temperatura media en mayo en 253 años 🌡️🏴
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A bricklayer in East Yorkshire has spent 35 years putting up barn owl nest boxes on weekends. This year, the region saw 308 owlets hatch.
His name is Robert Salter. He's 56 and does bricklaying full time. In 1990, he saw a piece on the news about a man in Lincolnshire installing barn owl boxes, and decided he'd do the same. He started with five.
He now has more than 350 boxes scattered across fields, farms, outbuildings, and trees in East Yorkshire. Every June, he takes four weeks off from bricklaying and visits them with his wife Sue. Scrambling up ladders, ringing chicks, cleaning boxes, repairing the ones the weather got to. He's a licensed bird ringer for the British Trust for Ornithology.
In 2024, the region ringed 95 owlets. In 2025, the count was 308. The Barn Owl Trust says that nationally, this year was "pretty poor" for barn owl breeding, but east Yorkshire is the exception, and it's the exception because of one man with a ladder.
The barn owl population in the UK was estimated at 4,000 pairs in the mid-2000s and crashed to roughly 1,000 by the early 2010s. The species is still recovering.
Most of conservation is one person who refuses to give up.
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Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.
ALT Spaghetti chart showing Oxford Radcliffe Observatory daily maximum temperatures for every day of the year from 1815 to 2026. 211 years of historical data are shown as very faint grey lines tracing a seasonal cycle from around 5°C in winter to a summer peak of roughly 25–30°C in July and August. A blue smoothed 30-day mean line highlights the average annual temperature cycle. The 2026 line is shown in bold red, running from January through to late May before spiking sharply upward to reach 33.7°C on 26 May, well above the entire historical grey envelope for that time of year. A single dashed red reference line marks the previous May record of 30.6°C set on 29 May 1944. The 2026 reading exceeds this by 3.1°C and, in statistical terms, is the 6th most anomalous maximum temperature in Oxford's 211-year record, ranking as the most anomalous May maximum ever observed and coming within 0.6°C of the all-time June record of 34.3°C set in 1976.
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Graham Birkett retweeted
Uncut grass keeps the ground at around 19.5°C
Grass cut to 10 cm raises the ground temperature to about 24.5°C
Bare ground in the middle of summer rises to over 40°C
It's important to raise awareness #NoMowMay
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