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Dalek invasion on Harlech

Martin Aaron Martin Aaron | 09:59 UK time, Thursday, 3 September 2009

This one just in from our guest nature blogger, Huw Jenkins:

The summer held so much promise. Derek said it would be a
barbecue summer, my family campaigned for a pool in the garden and
there were days in June when I was grateful for a cooling dip in the sea.

How could the forecasters get it so wrong?

Some people say it was a ploy to boost the local holiday economy. But walking on Harlech beach on August bank holiday weekend I discovered a possible cause for the wild forecasts...

In the distance by the dunes was what looked like a large Dalek on its side.
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On closer inspection it turned out to be a Met Office weather buoy that had broken free from its mooring chains.

Maybe it had been transmitting hot, sunny data whilst drifting in the Caribbean?!

This was the Aberporth buoy - 62301, one of 11 operated by the UK, that help build a picture of what's happening in the world of weather.
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Around its base were thousands of stranded mussels bemoaning the summer storms.

Huw Jenkins



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