Here comes the rain again.

Started raining here in #Exeter over an hour ago. Looks like some heavy rain to come over the next 3-4 hours.

#Rain #Weather #Precipitation #SWEngland #Meteorology #MetOffice

Carlton Power – Langage Green Hydrogen Hub in Devon to Supply Sibelco & Imerys Minerals

https://hydrogen-central.com/carlton-power-langage-green-hydrogen-hub-devon-supply-sibelco-imerys-minerals/

#MineralExtraction #Mining #HydrogenPlant #SouthWestEngland #SWEngland #Plymouth #Devon #CarltonPower #Power #Energy

Already seen one very obvious April Fool Day joke earlier this morning on the #CornwallLive website.

Here in #SWEngland there's always been a certain amount of rivalry between #Cornwall & #Devon.

When you have a #CreamTea (i.e. pot of tea and jam/cream on a scone), in #Cornwall the accepted norm is to put jam on the scone first then the cream on top. In #Devon it's the other way round, i.e. cream then jam.

The article said that the #UKGovernment had banned the Devonian method. 1/2

The #birdsite is broken (again!) so the #fediverse has the honour of hosting the (almost) exclusive announcement that this morning we personally visited #Cornwall's largest #reservoir, cameras in hand:

https://Davidstow.info/2023/03/where-has-the-water-in-colliford-lake-gone/

At the beginning of March #Colliford Lake is currently less than 50% full and declining, revealing all sorts of eery evidence of earlier human habitation:

An inevitable #drought in store for #SWEngland in the summer of 2023?