Three fallstreak holes spotted at the same time while visiting the Lacock car boot sale.
Frequently seen near major flight paths, where passing aircraft trigger supercooled water droplets to freeze into ice crystals and fall from the cloud layer @metoffice.gov.uk
A ramble around The Chilterns in the vicinity of the National Trust's Grey's Court on a perfect June day
Early harvest
First rasps of the season from the garden
Cotswold step-stile. Almost needed a belay for this one @lakesstiles.bsky.social
Makes you think
Hard to comprehend. These are Antarctic Peninsula locations, therefore exposed to strong maritime westerlies from the Southern Ocean but shows how the Antarctic's defences are being broken down
Sunshine doesn't have to go through the Strait of Hormuz
The only churchyard I walked through this week had been mown to within an inch of its life, so rather than #Churchyardflowers here are a couple from a marshy heath where I was doing some conservation work. Marsh Bedstraw Gallium palustre and Marsh Speedwell Veronica scutellata #wildflowerhour
Let's have some cheering environment news for a change
BBC News - Mangrove forests are healing after decades of human destruction - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Swampy mangrove forests are staging a surprise comeback - which is good news for coastal communities and the climate.
I Excel'd the power cons of Google's deal with Elon Musk's fossil-fuelled data centre. Took me ~10 seconds
Claude returned a similar answer, but consumed as much energy as **fully discharging** two smartphones, to do it
This is why the shift to reliance on LLMs bloats energy consumption so badly
MORE RECORD WARMTH IN ANTARCTIC WINTER
+10.1C Palmer 🇺🇸
+9.4C San Martin 🇦🇷
+8.5C Juan Carlos 🇪🇸
+8.2C Vernadsky 🇺🇦
Some stations are close to their SUMMER ALL TIME HIGH.
Example Esperanza Minimum of +6.0C was its second warmest night ever.
But recorded in winter.
Mind blowing
