Storm Isha Heads for West Devon
This morning dawned cold and clear once again, with another glorious sunrise: However that is soon going to change, since later in the day the Met Office in Exeter announced…
Have a Very Smelly Xmas
It's Christmas Eve and we've received Xmas greetings from South West Water. As well as a revised water bill for a quarter of the amount of the original one, comes…
The West Devon Weather
We hope to automate the process of producing a weather forecast and weather warning system for West Devon and the nearby coast. For the moment, however, this is almost all…
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:…
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:
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