Wanstead weather
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Meteorological stats and phenomena for East London. FRMetS
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London winter forecast 2025/26
This winter is looking mild or very mild overall with slightly above average rainfall. This year I’ve added to my previous method of forecasting by also considering the 12-month rolling rainf…
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Another mild winter in all probability with best chance for snow between Christmas and New Year. wansteadmeteo.com/2025/12/02/l...
Moonshine through an iced up roof window
December 5, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Moonshine through an iced up roof window
Surprised this story isn't bigger than it is.
"Exacerbating these weather patterns, meteorologists said, was the coincidence of two naturally occurring phenomena — La Niña in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean Dipole."
www.ft.com/content/6137...
"Exacerbating these weather patterns, meteorologists said, was the coincidence of two naturally occurring phenomena — La Niña in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean Dipole."
www.ft.com/content/6137...
Flood death toll surpasses 1,500 across south-east Asia
Several million people affected across Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Vietnam, with tens of thousands in shelters
www.ft.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Surprised this story isn't bigger than it is.
"Exacerbating these weather patterns, meteorologists said, was the coincidence of two naturally occurring phenomena — La Niña in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean Dipole."
www.ft.com/content/6137...
"Exacerbating these weather patterns, meteorologists said, was the coincidence of two naturally occurring phenomena — La Niña in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean Dipole."
www.ft.com/content/6137...
The 1840s and 1850s, decades where most Christmas traditions marked today began, were often very mild, wet and windy wansteadmeteo.com/2014/11/28/1...
180 years of Christmas Day in London
Christmas in Victorian London is often portrayed as very cold and snowy – picture perfect images of Yuletides past always scream out at us every year we open a box of Christmas cards. But a l…
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December 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The 1840s and 1850s, decades where most Christmas traditions marked today began, were often very mild, wet and windy wansteadmeteo.com/2014/11/28/1...
High time local authorities were compelled to hire local contractors. Or at least employ someone who engages their brain before carrying out a job. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Richmond tree felled on wrong street due to 'human error'
Contractors mistook Priory Road, Kew, for a street with the same name in Ealing.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
High time local authorities were compelled to hire local contractors. Or at least employ someone who engages their brain before carrying out a job. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Interesting trough through today. Some 20mm in Havant.
December 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Interesting trough through today. Some 20mm in Havant.
Look up and it's brilliant blue, look down and it's gorgeous green. #GinClear
December 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Look up and it's brilliant blue, look down and it's gorgeous green. #GinClear
The one bonus of these mobile periods is that you have a good chance of stunning, gin clear mornings. And no frost.
December 2, 2025 at 9:35 AM
The one bonus of these mobile periods is that you have a good chance of stunning, gin clear mornings. And no frost.
Another mild winter in all probability with best chance for snow between Christmas and New Year. wansteadmeteo.com/2025/12/02/l...
London winter forecast 2025/26
This winter is looking mild or very mild overall with slightly above average rainfall. This year I’ve added to my previous method of forecasting by also considering the 12-month rolling rainf…
wansteadmeteo.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Another mild winter in all probability with best chance for snow between Christmas and New Year. wansteadmeteo.com/2025/12/02/l...
Anyone else feel hopeless after that Budget?
The £5mn promised for secondary school libraries across England is just 2% in real terms of the boost to spending on education by Labour in 1997.
There's just no vision - just fiddling around the edges. Our youngsters will leave.
The £5mn promised for secondary school libraries across England is just 2% in real terms of the boost to spending on education by Labour in 1997.
There's just no vision - just fiddling around the edges. Our youngsters will leave.
November 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Anyone else feel hopeless after that Budget?
The £5mn promised for secondary school libraries across England is just 2% in real terms of the boost to spending on education by Labour in 1997.
There's just no vision - just fiddling around the edges. Our youngsters will leave.
The £5mn promised for secondary school libraries across England is just 2% in real terms of the boost to spending on education by Labour in 1997.
There's just no vision - just fiddling around the edges. Our youngsters will leave.
this continues to be a government whose rhetoric writes cheques that its actions cannot cash
www.ft.com/content/e1b1...
www.ft.com/content/e1b1...
Rachel Reeves doubles down on wishful thinking
A government that can’t make tough choices now is unlikely to do so on the eve of an election
www.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
this continues to be a government whose rhetoric writes cheques that its actions cannot cash
www.ft.com/content/e1b1...
www.ft.com/content/e1b1...
Gorgeous view from up there this morning
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Gorgeous view from up there this morning
Hokey cokey solutions at long lead times from run to run on the GFS. BUT, as suggested 11 days ago, something of the colder variety looks more likely.
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Hokey cokey solutions at long lead times from run to run on the GFS. BUT, as suggested 11 days ago, something of the colder variety looks more likely.
Breaking news: first frost of the winter in Wanstead! wansteadmeteo.com/2025/11/17/f...
First frost of winter 2025/26
The first air frost of the winter has just been recorded in Wanstead, the earliest for four years, though only 9th earliest in the last 13. It is the 31st air frost of the year which is now two sho…
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November 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Breaking news: first frost of the winter in Wanstead! wansteadmeteo.com/2025/11/17/f...
Brilliant bonfires and not a noisy firework in sight. wansteadmeteo.com/2013/11/02/79-years-ago-wanstead-flats-bonfire-night/
81 years ago: Wanstead Flats Bonfire Night
Wanstead Flats has put on some spectacular Guy Fawkes’ nights over the years. I didn’t realise quite how many years until I stumbled upon this old British Pathe clip which shows nurses …
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November 5, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Brilliant bonfires and not a noisy firework in sight. wansteadmeteo.com/2013/11/02/79-years-ago-wanstead-flats-bonfire-night/
This is enjoyable for anyone who likes historical policy programmes. Highlights how our leaders are swayed by whatever lobbyists are shouting loudest at any given time. And how it’s in the interests of oil companies for any changes to be glacial. On Netflix
November 4, 2025 at 10:47 AM
This is enjoyable for anyone who likes historical policy programmes. Highlights how our leaders are swayed by whatever lobbyists are shouting loudest at any given time. And how it’s in the interests of oil companies for any changes to be glacial. On Netflix
Ariel balloon pump. Made in England! A whole industry right there that probably moved en masse to China decades ago. Funny how something simple like this unlocks a whole trove of childhood memories.
November 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Ariel balloon pump. Made in England! A whole industry right there that probably moved en masse to China decades ago. Funny how something simple like this unlocks a whole trove of childhood memories.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social here’s a piece on Streeting’s mate Slum Landlord Jas Athwal who strangely seems to be above Labour’s discipline process. www.the-londoner.co.uk/investigatio...
Investigation: The MP, the 'Don' - and the millions spent on children's care
‘How you’re going to pin this on me I’ve got no idea’
www.the-londoner.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social here’s a piece on Streeting’s mate Slum Landlord Jas Athwal who strangely seems to be above Labour’s discipline process. www.the-londoner.co.uk/investigatio...
“If the West Wing is the mind of the nation, the East Wing is the heart.” First Lady Betty Ford.
It feels like Trump has ripped the heart out of the US.
It feels like Trump has ripped the heart out of the US.
October 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
“If the West Wing is the mind of the nation, the East Wing is the heart.” First Lady Betty Ford.
It feels like Trump has ripped the heart out of the US.
It feels like Trump has ripped the heart out of the US.
When the synoptics line up...
wansteadmeteo.com/2025/10/23/bob-scotts-most-brutal-blizzard/
wansteadmeteo.com/2025/10/23/bob-scotts-most-brutal-blizzard/
October 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
When the synoptics line up...
wansteadmeteo.com/2025/10/23/bob-scotts-most-brutal-blizzard/
wansteadmeteo.com/2025/10/23/bob-scotts-most-brutal-blizzard/
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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October 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Pedalling Dutch style wansteadmeteo.com/2025/10/16/n...
Anniversary of one of those touchstone moments tonight that sowed the seed of a lifelong obsession with meteorology.
wansteadmeteo.com/2017/10/02/3...
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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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October 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Anniversary of one of those touchstone moments tonight that sowed the seed of a lifelong obsession with meteorology.
wansteadmeteo.com/2017/10/02/3...
wansteadmeteo.com/2017/10/02/3...