Steven Dick

@theiaincameron That reminds me of Iceland and Greenland. Greenland is further north, south, east and west of Iceland.

The northernmost point is Point Barrow (also called Nuvuk in Inupiaq), a headland on Alaska’s Arctic coast where the Chukchi Sea meets the Beaufort Sea. Thank me later when this comes up in a pub quiz… /END

Remarkably, Alaska contains the easternmost, westernmost, and northernmost points of the United States. 1/n

@theiaincameron @AndrewCohill Have a little look at the Central Pangean Mountains and the international Appalachian Way. USA, Scotland and Morocco. I think this is a great fact, but I am quite peculiar.

So, it is remarkable that you can put a canoe in a small river in North Carolina, but end up in the Gulf of Mexico/America* at New Orleans, along one of the world's oldest rivers. /END Thanks to @AndrewCohill for the tip-off. * Don't blame me, I'm only following Google Maps.

What happens when an immovable object meets an irresistible force? Well, when faced with one of the world's oldest rivers, the irresistible force loses. Such is the case in the Appalachian Mountains, where not even moving tectonic plates could subdue an ancient watercourse. 1/n

@OrdnanceSurvey Battersea

Do you know the location and symbols in today's #MapMonday ?

@theiaincameron I imagine there will be some good depths in the top of the Bizzle and Hen Hole. Easterly to South easterly winds stripping one side and dumping it on the other. A trip awaits for me. I can’t imagine what the depths must be like on Corrie of Lochnagar.

In an isolated corner of the Cheviot Hills, five-metre drifts are present to those prepared to seek them out. Photos taken today. 📷 Chris Speight

@theiaincameron Isostatic rebound is apparently responsible for the small land spit the river cuts through..???…

The shortest river in the UK is the River Morar, on the west coast of Scotland. It is only about half-a-mile long, but quite large in terms of flow. It drains the UK's deepest, and third biggest loch by volume, Loch Morar. This loch holds a wee bit less water than Loch Lomond.

@Official_WXUK 7 miles from the coast and at 125m AOD in Northumberland, it would not be much better than for you southern folk. But on a plus, for us at least, we do see the odd 8-12 inch once every 5 years or so.

Can you imagine if places in southern England tried to do something like this 😂😭

@Petagna Hi Marco, why does the jet stream not push the lows south east and over the Med? Sorry if this is to simplistic of a question.

High pressure to our E and NE continues to give a slow moving low pressure pattern near the UK

@Met4CastUK It’s just a shame it does not show temps around -1 with snow icons, for the next few days. 🤷🤓😂

The Met Office app isn’t looking *too* bad now. Reducing the amount of space at the top has made a significant different and the animations are very nice. Still needs a lot of work but I feel a lot more hopeful that it’ll get there and they ARE listening.

@Met4CastUK I can’t seem to find the pressure charts. Has this feature been removed and the link to mountain weather.

NEW MET OFFICE APP The Met are actively interested in hearing feedback. There are plans to fix the scrolling issues & location issues some people are having. They’ve also added a “weather warnings” bar to more easily access national warnings when outside of a warning area. I’m speaking to the team again on Wednesday to discuss the app and hopefully find out more about the future direction and plans. If you have anything you’d like to be fed back to the development team please let me know and I’ll make a note of it. Cheers 👍🏻

@Skiallenheads Our weather is just so poor, it just does not allow snow to hang around…. Bloody shame.

great day to today but forecast and conditions not so good tomorrow so unsure about opening. Will update in the morning.

@Cornish_Weather @Official_WXUK Storm Arwin did similar to Northumberland. Horrible. Long road ahead I’m afraid, we still have woodland down now from 2021

This is the Helston to Penzance road, I have never really seen anything like this amount of tree damage, (there are two sections of trees that are down, the worst is at around 30 seconds into the video) a video from the back of a moving car just doesn’t really show it properly.

@poutmontag I’m fucking loving it…..I’m boozing like a trooper.

It’s shite already

@MarkVogan Very hot, but Canberra is the capital city of Australia, if I’m not mistaken.

While a snowy one down in Tasmania... Perth, Australia 🇦🇺 was likely hottest capital on earth through Christmas 🎄

@theiaincameron Great Sunset on Calton Hill.🤣

Standing in a T-shirt for sunset this evening. To feel warmth in the sun this afternoon was bliss.

The touch of death 😂

@MetRyan96 @SnowbieWx Is that photo taken looking down from Dale Head towards Stair? It’s great BTW.

Evening all A pic from other day edited by @SnowbieWx (brilliant account to follow) #LakeDistrict

@Wyefarm @DaveThroup @BlackM1710 So the aim is for malting quality and not food production? I don’t agree with most of what this government is proscribing but I struggle to support the movement - “No Farmers, No Food” when a lot of arable farmers around my way simply aim for malting standards. Enlighten me 🙏🏼

@BlackM1710 @DaveThroup Yes sorry, so we would budget on a yield of 5t/ha but expect to be closer to 7t/ha. At 4t/ha if it doesn't make the malting premium specification for beer we will have made a significant loss/ha on the crop

Utterly utterly awful. Spring Barley ~4t/ha. Started at 13% this morning, stopped now at 11.2%.

@MetRyan96 Is that Sharp Edge on Blencathra?

The summery conditions are here 👀

@EnvAgencyYNE This is near Bede Monestery on the Don. Does not look pleasant.

Our officers have been actively responding to an oil spill incident on the River Don near West Boldon. Our teams, with support from Northumbrian Water, are working to identify the source and reduce the impact. Absorbent booms and pads are in place, and investigations continue

@scott_edinburgh @theiaincameron A scary prospect.

@StevenDick4 @theiaincameron More likely the dry peat goes on fire and burns underground for years.

One of the most evocative sights of the Highlands is seeing the ancient Scots pine trees’ ghost-like stumps emerging from the peat. Stumps like these have been carbon dated to around 4,000-5,000 years old. Back then, the climate was 1-2°C warmer than today and trees were able to colonise higher altitudes. Subsequent cooler and wetter conditions, as well as possible human impact, meant that these trees died off, fell, and were covered by peat for thousands of years. The pale and bleached relics we see emerging slowly from the bog remind us of what we used to have.