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…
Christmas is Coming, and so is Sewage Pollution
Following the severe storms last weekend a smaller storm is crossing the West Country this morning. Here's the Met Office forecast for today's accumulated rainfall by midday: That shows around…
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…
Autumnal Sewage Pollution at Widemouth Bay and Bude
The end of meteorological summer is upon us. Schools go back next week. Storms are raging in the North Atlantic. It's time to start checking the surf forecast at our…
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.…
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: