Simon King
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Lead BBC weather presenter and meteorologist. Mostly R4 Today, 5 Live and BBC Breakfast | Ex-RAF Officer | Author ‘What Does Rain Smell Like?’
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He had a good life of 17 years but old age issues finally caught up with him and we had to say goodbye to Alfie today. Rest in peace my tiger 🐯😢
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Want some GREAT news?
Sunrise has now reached its latest time across the UK. From the next few days it'll start getting lighter in the mornings 🎉
(evenings have been getting lighter for a while now and of course overall daylength is increasing)
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Missed all the
#aurora
action last night?
Another chance to see it tonight anywhere in the UK but it may not be as bright.
Last night we had an extreme 'G5' storm, tonight indications are more like a strong 'G3'. But don't let that put you off having a look 🤩🌌
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There’s a reason ‘danger to life’ is mentioned in warnings…😱
Hope no one was injured in this.
#StormEunice
📹 St Thomas church, Wells via
@djstay81
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Results day of a different kind here. My wife had a big thyroid tumour taken out recently. After months of worry and uncertainty, results today cleared her of the big C 🙌
So proud how she’s handled it and kept so strong for everyone, she’s amazing xx
#ThankyouNHS
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Show me a better view from your door...
This is just incredible. Fabulous video from
@Astromackem
and I’m extremely jealous! 😍
#MondayMotivaton
#Aurora
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You're in for a treat if you look up at the night sky.
Jupiter & Saturn have been getting closer and will 'kiss' on Mon 21st. Called the 'Great Conjunction' or the 'Christmas Star', it hasn't happened for 800 years!
📷Pete Lawrence, BBC Sky at Night
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BREAKING. Seeing numerous reports from across the country showing the sky in the most glorious colour of red.
Have you got a picture?
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Flying ants!!!
Swarms of them flying into the sky in S Eng are being picked up as rain on the radar image this morning...!
#flyingantday
#flyingants
🐜🐜🐜🐜
#yuk
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Say hello to the newest member of the King family 👑👋
Completely in love already but we still haven’t all agreed on a name. Welcome any suggestions? 🐶
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Who can remember this day exactly 10 years ago? 🤔
This is what the UK looked like from space...
☃️❄️☃️
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Sunrise is currently the latest it'll be in the morning. From now, it'll start getting lighter earlier 🌅
And with sunset getting later since mid-Dec, we've now got 10 mins more daylight than we had on the solstice 🥳
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Britain has been coal free now for 60 days
⬇️ This graphic from
@guardian
really shows how stark that is...
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WOW! 🤩🌌
This was a lovely surprise in our Weather Watcher inbox this morning...really impressive
#Aurora
#NorthernLights
in Scotland and N Yorkshire last night 😻
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If you’re doing some
#aurora
watching tonight, send your pictures! Either here or via Weather Watchers. 📷🌌
Will look at them all and feature as many as I can on
@BBCBreakfast
in the morning 🤩
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Storm surge from
#HurricaneLaura
will be up to 20ft in places. Inundation could be as far as 30 miles inland. This video from
@weatherchannel
shows how terrifying that is...
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📣Want some great news?
We're rapidly gaining daylight at the moment of around 4 mins per day. AND, tomorrow is the 'equilux'* where day and night are roughly equal. 👏🥳
*not to be confused with the equinox on Sat 20th.
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Big thanks to our absolutely brilliant
#NHS
for looking after me today.
1 x ambulance ride 🚑
2 x ECGs 📉
1 x X-Ray 💀
1 x Ultrasound 🔦
Heaps of care and attention 💕
Couldn’t be more appreciative. Got a slightly dodgy ticker 💔 so taking it easy for next few days.
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I'm easily pleased when it comes to a weather photograph but think you'll agree that this is an absolutely AMAZING picture from the thunderstorms at the weekend...
🌈 + ⚡️ = 😍
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While it'll feel warm in sunshine this week, the real key for warmer weather is when the jet stream heads northward.
And look what happens at the end of this week...
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Big impacts expected on the Hawaiian Islands over the next few days as
#HurricaneLane
bears down. It was upgraded to a dangerous Cat 5 hurricane this morning with wind speeds of 160mph. Looking very ominous from space...🛰
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Even the night sky lit up for Captain Sir Tom Moore last night. A lovely sight for such an incredible man 😍
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Happy Equilux day! 🌅
Roughly 12hrs of daylight today which means we've turned a corner and from tomorrow there'll be more light than dark! Plenty to celebrate about that 🥳
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EXCITING NEWS! Today is the
#equilux
so day and night are pretty much equal. Days will be longer than nights from today! 🎉
#FridayFeeling
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It was too cloudy for most of us in the UK to see the
#GreatConjunction
🪐 but a couple of our weather watchers from Aberdeenshire saw something arguably as impressive in the night sky...
#NorthernLights
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Belgium 🌡39.9’C
Netherlands 🌡39.3’C
Germany 🌡40.5
All time records broken yesterday, those likely to be beaten again today. Will the UK join them?
#heatwave
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I’d never considered myself as a ‘dog person’ but oh my, I am totally converted! 🐾
Honey 🍯 has been with us for nearly 2 weeks now and I absolutely love her. She’s brought so much joy to the whole family 😍😍
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Oh, hello
#aurora
😍🌌
Beautiful photo from one of our weather watchers in the Shetland Islands last night.
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First time this year I heard birdsong at 4.45am! 🐦 Either a massive coincidence that it’s getting lighter now at the right time or the they know it’s the
#SpringEquinox
!
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Today is the day you've all been waiting for... 🎊🎉
The mornings are now getting lighter! 🌅😃
(there is a lag between when the evenings start get lighter to the shortest day to now when the mornings get lighter).
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📣 Amazing phenomenon alert! You may have seen many rainbows in your life but have you ever seen a moonbow?
As the
#SuperWormMoon
was so bright last night, a
@BBCWthrWatchers
captured this rare colourful moonbow. Incredible... 😍🌕🌈
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This is what it currently looks like in parts of Cumbria...😱
☃️❄️☃️
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It's the
#WinterSolstice
!
While it means today is the shortest day with only 5hr50 of daylight in N Scot and 8hrs in S Eng 😟, the
#FridayFeeling
great news is that it'll start getting lighter from tomorrow! 🎊🎉
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Breaking news: Pot of gold🏆 found in an outbuilding in Tavistock, Devon.
Love the pronounced darker sky to the outer side of the rainbow🌈, called Alexander's dark band. It's an optical phenomena named by Alexander of Aphrodisias in 200AD
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What a privilege it was to read the
#shippingforecast
⛵️🚢 🌊 this morning on its 150th anniversary.
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Thank you to those who asked if I was alright after my radio 4 weather earlier.
Not going to lie, it was horrendous…I just couldn’t catch a breath.
Time was really tight after I finished a TV hit so I decided to run upstairs to the radio studio…big mistake 😮💨🤦
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If you missed it yesterday morning, you've still got a chance to see Venus in the morning sky before sunrise. Just look for the brightest dot in the sky near the moon 🌙...
@bbc5live
|
@NickyAACampbell
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It's December, we're now in winter and nature turned on the Xmas lights in celebration last night...
🌌🎄
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If
#BlueMonday
is actually a thing then turn that frown ☹️ upside down 😀 with these beautiful pictures of the
#aurora
last night in Scotland... 🌌😍
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Booom⚡️ There were around 45,000
#lightning
strikes across the UK last night. Feeling a bit sleepy this morning? 😴
#thunderstorms
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Minding my own business on the way to the dentist but he insisted on a selfie 😂
#oleoleole
#managerofthemoment
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Our Weather Watchers have a strong snowman/woman/animal/alien game from yesterday's snowfall... 👌☃️
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Wow! 😍 Amazing
#aurora
captured last night by a couple of our
@BBCWthrWatchers
in Scotland...
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WOW 🤩. Can we talk about last night?
Most incredible/magical/amazing
#aurora
across the U.K….
@BBCBreakfast
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@bbcweather
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@BBCNews
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When you hear the clinking of the recycling bins being emptied down the street and realise you haven’t put your bin out 🚚🤦🏃♂️
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While the
#snow
was falling in the south, those in the north were treated to a stunning Northern lights show... 😍
#aurora
#NorthernLights
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Despite finding it quite hard to listen at times today without welling up a bit,
@bbc5live
has been brilliant today. The tributes to
@Rachael_Hodges
have been lovely, funny, moving and just fantastic! Feel incredibly proud and lucky to be part of the 5 live family. 🤗
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There’s a been a lot of activity on the Sun which means charged particles are hurtling towards to Earth 🌍
Aurora could be visible across the WHOLE of the U.K. tonight and Sat night. Only thing against us is the shorter amount of dark skies.
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5 years ago today I came home from a tour to Afghanistan. I remember this hug from Noah like it was yesterday 😍
#Fridayrewind
#HappyFriday
#FriendlyFriday
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As
#StormEunice
clears, should give a massive 👏 to meteorological science. Forecasts consistently highlighted the storm from Mon with early
@metoffice
warnings issued.
Most people heeded warnings & advice from authorities resulting in fewer major impacts/injury and fatalities.
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Happy
#SummerSolstice
! I wasn't up early enough to see the sunrise but thankfully our Weather Watchers were.
Sun rising at 4.10am in Aberdeenshire...
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Have you ever seen clouds like this? ☁☁
Fantastic examples of 'cloud streets' captured last night in southern England by our
@BBCWthrWatchers
📸...
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Even when you find your car, you won't exactly be going very far...!
#Buffalo
#snow
http://t.co/MKfPPXaBuP
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Wow, wow, wow. 🤩 With over 1,000
#lightning
strikes⚡️ in an hour around Eastbourne last night and around 10,000 through the whole night in SE England, the skies were insane...! Check these out 👇
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❗️Unsurvivable
❗️Catastrophic
❗️Historic
❗️Areas becoming uninhabitable
Words you really don’t want to see/hear as Cat 4
#HurricaneLaura
bears down on you. Reminds me of words used ahead of Katrina 15yrs ago.
Hope warnings & evacuations were heeded and everyone stays safe 🙏
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While we're still on the look out for
#snow
here in the UK, New York City had it's snowiest November day in 80 years yesterday. ☃ 6" fell in Central Park.
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While the
#GreatConjunction
#ChristmasStar
happens tonight when Jupiter & Saturn appear together in the night sky, our weather watchers caught some great detail yesterday evening...👀
Forecast tonight isn't looking good but Northern Ireland and W Scotland best chance.
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BINGO!
That’s amazing ✅
No way ✅
Oh my God ✅
Incredible ✅
How did they do that ✅
Whaaaaaaaatt ✅
Are you seeing this? ✅
Wow ✅
Our World is amazing ✅
🌊🌎🦀🐠🐢
#BluePlanet2
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Should be asleep but was way too excited so I’m standing half naked in my garden where even without a camera I can see the purples…
Absolutely incredible 🤩
#aurora
#Auroraborealis
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You don't see these often...amazing shelf cloud yesterday evening invading the south coast ahead of the thunderstorms last night. ⬇️⚡️😍
How was it in the SE last night? Sleep OK? 💦😴
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Winter has arrived in Aberdeenshire ☃️💨. And it’s just the start of it with
#StormArwen
📹
@Alonso2012F
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Breaking…
#StormFranklin
has just been named.
Widely windy today and tomorrow (50-60mph) but AMBER warning for Northern Ireland 🔸⚠️…
💨 60-70 locally 80mph
🕕 Midnight - 7am Mon
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If the aurora wasn't enough last night, STEVE made an appearance!
STEVE - Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement - is the thin purplish ribbon glowing near to the aurora. It's a relatively new phenomena which is still being investigated.
🌌
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Anglesey is such a beautiful place, especially when the sun is shining. Love it here 😍
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If you want to see a partial solar
#eclipse
in the UK, then about 10% of the sun will be obscured at around 8pm. Clear skies though?...
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OK, this is the most amazing shot I've ever seen! And it has baffled us
@bbcweather
.
▪️Double rainbow with reflection on the water ✅ - not rare.
▪️Secondary bow right inside the main rainbow - rare and can't explain?
Could be a 'twinned' or 'supernumerary' bow. 🤔
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The birth, life and death of Storm Barra 🌀⤵️
Tell me this isn't both beautiful and facinating? 😍
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Edinburgh has had its wettest May - and spring - on record, obliterating previous records.
Three and a half times the average rain falling here throughout May...pretty incredible stats!
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After talking about
#StormEunice
since 5.30am on
@bbc5live
WUTM, Breakfast, Your call, Chiles, Drive and
@BBCSounds
, it’s time to relax.
Hope the storm hasn’t impacted you badly and sorry I’ve not replied to all your messages - it’s been a manic day!
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Did you get a glimpse of the
#StrawberryMoon
🍓🌕 last night? It got quite cloudy but these
@BBCWthrWatchers
did...
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Have you ever seen a rainbow at night? 🌌🌈
Check this out... a really nice vibrant example of a 'moonbow'.
Formed in the same way as a normal rainbow but the light comes from the bright moon and not the sun.
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No.
Is Greater Manchester about to be hit with a 'Siberian snowbomb'?
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Lovely picture this morning from one of our weather watchers...
#LestWeForget
#RemembranceDay
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Reports of some epic
#thundersnow
in Edinburgh and Perth area waking a few people up first thing this morning.
The
#snow
can enhance the lightning and thunder by bouncing off and between the snow flakes. ❄️⚡️
⬇️Dots are the storms within the large area of snow falling.
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Christmas gift 🎁...
It's the
#WinterSolstice
and therefore shortest day. Days will be getting lighter from now 🌤️🙌
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The weather was just as amazing as this exactly 12 years ago ☀️☀️
Happy anniversary Mrs K 👰🤵🥂
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Look, it’s no heatwave but with temperatures getting up to where they should be for the end of May, it’ll feel like it! 😂🌡📈
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Here's a bit of
#MondayMotivation
for you...
Evening's will be getting lighter this week as we've now reached the time of the earliest sunsets 🌆🙌
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#StormCiar
án still hasn't even formed but between now and later tonight it'll go through explosive cyclogenesis.
Hitting the UK in early hours of Thursday with the most damaging and severe winds (100mph) in the English Channel...
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Our Weather Watchers inbox has filled up rapidly with some amazing sunrise pictures. 😍🌄
How's it looking where you are?
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5 years ago this morning, I still can’t believe I had to make this phone call...
(🔊Sound ON)
#HappyBirthdayNell
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Our BBC weather watchers do a great job of cheering me up with their excellent weather photos. This morning is no exception with this gorgeous shot of the Brecon Beacons from last night....😍🗻
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We were warned it would come, I'm not sure many thought it would be quite now...📈🌡️🤯
Very likely that 19 Jul '22 will go down in the history books as the date when temperatures exceed 4⃣0⃣°C in the UK for the first time.
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Decided earlier this week to cancel going to the pub with mates to watch the game. 🍻🍺
With Noah nearly 10, this will surely be his first memorable footy tournament. Let’s hope it’s a really big one to remember 🏆🤞
#makingmemories
#itscominghome
#ENG
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Snow in May isn't THAT unusual.
However, heavy snow settling like this...is quite frankly bonkers ⬇️☃️
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