Gloom

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Darkened daytime rooms

the orange glow of lightbulbs

accentuated

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Precious

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Diamond encrusted

grass tips, fallen leaves glisten

day melts the moment

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Summer ends

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A perfect summer

ends with a grand finale

rain showers forecast

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  • It looks like today might be the last sunny and warm day of a glorious summer, but the lack of rain has caused all sorts of problems for farmers and nature, so the rain forecast for the next couple of weeks is actually very welcome.

Here comes the sun… again

Forecast, Redland, Bristol, July 2025
Forecast, Redland, Bristol, July 2025

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Expectation raised

barbecue summer ahead

liberating sun

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Repeat

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Blocking high pressure

still, stable sunlit blue skies

invigorating

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Good to be alive

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One of those mornings

stillness and cloudless blue skies

spring is in the air

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St Swithin’s Day

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It rained half the day

does that mean that it will rain

for the next twenty

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Resumption

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It just couldn’t last

a warm weekend taste of spring

yields to wind and rain

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Cloudburst

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Ominous yellow

a dark cloudy prelude to

opening heavens

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Winter chill

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The north wind cuts hard

on the waterlogged landscape

in this warmest year

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by Scooj

  • The weather has always been an English preoccupation, but with the climatic impacts we are now experiencing, there is a perverse excitement of doomsday ecstasy peppering our media and conversations. Climate change – the gift to ourselves that just keeps on giving.