October Sewage Pollution in South West England
After a few days of warm, sunny weather the Met Office in Exeter issued a yellow weather warning for heavy rain last night: The heavens duly opened across South West…
September Sewage Pollution in South West England
Following sewage pollution incidents all around the coast of South West England on August 31st we’ve since enjoyed/endured 6 days of an official heatwave. However that hasn’t prevented a heavy shower this morning causing the activation of several combined sewer overflows in Plymouth. Here is the Met Office’s rain radar map at 6 AM this morning:
Here is South West Water’s WaterFit Live map of Plymouth a few hours later:
(more…)Bank Holiday Sewage in the South West’s Seas
We could see it coming from many miles away:
Here is August Bank Holiday Friday’s first sewage pollution incident of the long weekend around the long coastline of South West England, courtesy of South West Water’s “Water Fit Live” map:
(more…)Storm Betty Barrels Towards the UK
Hot on the heels of Storm Antoni earlier this month, the Met Office in Exeter has just issued a press release about the imminent arrival of another mid-summer named storm:…
Sewage in the Sea at Widemouth Bay
We visited the north coast yesterday afternoon, for a walk rather than a surf. The wet weather gear came out at around quarter past two: The rain became heavier overnight.…
Storm Antoni Hits West Devon, In August!
The Met Office in Exeter have issued a high wind warning for tomorrow: Not only that, but also the high winds will be caused by the first named storm of…
Much more sewage is in the sea
On Saturday we took the grandchildren to Summerleaze Beach in Bude. You can read all about that excursion (and see moving surfing pictures!), here.Yesterday the children went to Widemouth Sand…
The Heavens Open in Halwill Junction
Yesterday was a (comparatively!) nice day, but this morning it’s raining again here in Halwill Junction. This is the Met Office’s 11:AM rainfall forecast:
There appears to be heavier rain heading for West Devon. Whilst we await future developments, further west a new sewage pollution alert has popped up on South West Water’s “Water Fit Live” map:
(more…)Surfing Bude in the School Holidays
Strictly speaking the title should start "bodyboarding", but it's already overly verbose!Here's today's Surfline surf forecast for Bude Summerleaze: We very rarely go to Summerleaze, and we very rarely go…
Summer’s in the air, and sewage is in the sea
School summer holidays are starting. I don’t know if there is a causal relationship, but it probably won’t come as a huge surprise to many residents of West Devon that the UK Met Office’s rainfall map of the area looked like this yesterday afternoon:
As luck would have it, I had just set up our shiny new Twitter account so that I could report to the rest of the planet on yesterday’s exciting news from Halwill Junction football pitch.
Twitter insisted that I “follow” several other accounts, and of course South West Water was top of my list! Whereupon Elon Musk‘s latest (single) X algorithm suddenly revealed this to me: