Satirical Planet News: Today’s Weather, Saturday 4 April 2026 Issued at 10:32 from the national dampness bunker, where the briefing says “unsettled” because apparently that sounds nicer than “your wheelie bin is about to start a new life in Cumbria”.

The translation is this, the country is about to spend the evening being slapped around by weather while official language continues its brave little hobby of sounding relaxed.
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#StormDave #UKWeather #AmberWarning #YellowWarning #StormChandra

Flooding campaign group pushes for more permanent pumps on Somerset Levels The Environment Agency is being pressed to invest in further pumps as Somerset continues its recovery from Storm Chandra

#Flooding campaigners and the #Somerset Drainage Board Consortium are jointly pushing the Environment Agency to install more permanent pumps on the Levels and Moors in the aftermath of #StormChandra: www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/2596817... #LDReporter

Somerset Council accused of hypocrisy as work to reopen A30 in Yeovil continues Somerset Council is working hard to reopen the A30 Hendford Hill in Yeovil - while the nearby Chinnock Hollow has now been shut for five years

@libdempatrick.bsky.social has accused #Somerset Council of hypocrisy as repairs continue on the #A30 Hendford Hill in #Yeovil - while Chinnock Hollow remains close: www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/2594847... #LDReporter #StormChandra

Key road over Somerset Levels "at risk" of being lost to future flooding Law Lane was raised after the 2013/14 floods to prevent local homes from being cut off - but its future is not looking entirely secure

A key rural road on the #Somerset Levels is "at risk" of being lost to future #flooding, local councillors have claimed: www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/2594797... #LDReporter #StormChandra #Drayton #Muchelney

Somerset Council rejects calls to halt new developments after severe flooding Somerset Council has rejected demands to stop approving new housing developments until additional flood prevention measures are put in place

#Somerset Council has rejected calls to halt all new housing developments until further measures are put in place to combat #flooding: www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/2593206... #LDReporter #StormChandra

Puffins and Shags seem to have been hit hardest by recent storms, with many reports of birds washed ashore. This includes one Isle of May Puffin that was ringed as an adult in 1995, making it at least 34 years old!

#stormChandra #seabirds #winterstorms

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Infographic showing facts about the campaign monitoring period. Schools collected 4.5m of rainfall across Ireland over 4 weeks! The highest daily total measured by a school was 47.7mm. You added over 800 measurements to GLOBE data base. Most common pH was 6.3. Leinster was the wettest province. Joined schools from Ukraine, Croatia and Malta for the monitoring period. Photographs of students with their rain gauges outside. Blue background, orange bubbles with white type.

That's a wrap on another Precipitation Monitoring Period for our #ClimateResilience Rainfall & Flooding schools. It was a very wet and wild time so well done to everyone who took part!

#theGLOBEProgram #FloodingInIreland #CitizenScience #StormChandra
@antaisce.bsky.social @epaireland.bsky.social

Ireland’s 2026 weather has been brutal so far! 🌧️❄️
​After the wettest January in 149 years for some, we're now being hit by an Arctic blast with temps as low as -4°C and more snow on the way this week. My rain boots are exhausted and my heater is working overtime. 🇮🇪
​ #StormChandra #IrishWinter

EA to review Somerset flooding response following ministerial visit Flooding minister Emma Hardy MP visited the Somerset Levels on Tuesday (February 10) at the insistence of Glastonbury and Somerton MP Sarah Dyke

The EA has pledged to review its response to #Somerset #flooding after #Glastonbury and #Somerton MP @sarahdykeld.bsky.social brought government minister @emmahardymp.bsky.social to #Langport this week: www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/2585216... #LDReporter #StormChandra

'More heartache' to come as a result of extreme weather conditions, researchers warn This January was the wettest since 2018, according to Met Éireann

After widespread flooding during #StormChandra, Prof Peter Thorne of MU, sounded the alarm if global warming continues unabated. “It’s just another sad milestone in a litany of sad milestones of a climate going awry & going wrong to the detriment of all of us,”.
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Chandra’s Birds

There is something both exciting and scary about watching stormy seas. It’s as though you feel the adrenalin of a wave as it rolls in. I think the coastal birds loved it as much as I did.

#coastalphotography #stormchandra #wemburylife #birdphotography
#ocean

Environment Agency warns of ongoing flood risk - Water Magazine The Environment Agency (EA) continues to call on the public to remain vigilant to the risk of significant flooding in the wake of Storm Chandra. Current forecasts show conditions are […]

The Environment Agency continues to call on the public to remain vigilant to the risk of significant flooding in the wake of Storm Chandra...

www.watermagazine.co.uk/2026/02/06/e...

#Flooding #FloodRisk #StormChandra

Lots of coastal erosion at Ballinesker near Curracloe #Wexford #StormChandra @carlowweather.bsky.social

A couple of dozen sticks carefully and fairly uselessly laid over the middle of a muddy path

Bridge over troubled mud

#StormChandra #fluich #pic

🗣️ “It’s a different weather pattern to what we are used to, and we can expect more of that,” meteorologist Joanna Donnelly

#TonightVMTV #StormChandra #Flooding

🗣️ “This is coming for the rest of the week. There is no change in the meteorological situation for the next seven days… this is definitely not over yet,” meteorologist Joanna Donnelly

#TonightVMTV #StormChandra

🗣️ “On Monday–Tuesday [Met Éireann] missed an opportunity… I know Met Éireann said they don’t issue flood warnings, but the flood forecaster is in the room,” meteorologist Joanna Donnelly

#TonightVMTV #StormChandra

Scientists have been telling us for 30 years what would happen.

Local & national politicians' clutching of pearls in overdrive.

Laughable if it weren't so serious.

#StormChandra

Road has been closed for a week now, due to fallen trees from Storm Chandra, which means I don't have to deal with dickheads using it as a rat-run and driving past me and the pup at high speed.

#lurcher
#sighthound
#stormchandra

Fantastic and bang on read regarding #StormChandra blame game going on 🙌🏼

Enniscorthy to transform into Ireland’s first National Water Park Enniscorthy is the transform into Ireland’s first National Water Park, the Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers has announced. The Co. Wexford town, which bore the brunt of last week’s Storm Chandra, is facing another yellow rain warning from tomorrow, which locals fear may leave more homes

Enniscorthy to transform into Ireland’s first National Water Park www.downthetownnews.com/2026/02/01/e...
#StormChandra #Flooding #MetEireann #Weather #Rainwarning #JackChambers #Enniscorthy #Ireland #Armbands

Labour TD @conorsheehan.bsky.social on the need for an improved flood warning system, highlighted by the effect of Storm Chandra.

You can catch-up on this week's programme on the RTÉ News channel at 3pm, 6.30pm and 10pm today, or on RTÉ One at 11.05pm tonight.

#StormChandra #Flooding #Labour

South West Water graph of the total net water storage of their reservoir network on January 25th 2026, also including data for 2025 and the "drought year" of 2022

UK Met Office map of weather warnings caused by the arrival of Storm Chandra on January 26th 2026

Recent heavy rain across South West England has had the beneficial side effect of significantly increasing the water levels of our reservoirs:

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"More help is at hand due to heavy rain caused by the recent passage of #StormChandra across the UK"

#Drought2026?

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Thin disk Coral washed up on beach.

Dead crab & sea anemone washed up on beach.

Starfish washed up on beach

Sea anemone on beach

#StormChandra is back.
She also left her signature on the beach…nature can be harsh if you’re a sea creature caught up in its rage.

Storm Chandra: Burst banks in 'one of the worst affected areas' in Ireland Sky's Stephen Murphy spoke to a number of residents in County Wicklow, nearby a river which burst its banks in the early hours of 27 January.

Inconceivable, how badly prepared Ireland is for this type of challenges. We have friends who had their entire life wiped-out with little warning.

Sheer scale of systemic failures is infuriating.

#Ireland #StormChandra
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Even #StormChandra can’t keep my intrepid #DailyZiggy from his morning romp on the beach!
#DogsOfBlueSky

Heavy flooding to disrupt Devon and Cornwall rail services into first week of February Network Rail and Great Western Railway are advising passengers in Devon and Cornwall that heavy flooding will affect train travel in the region into the early part of next week (commencing Monday 2 Fe...

⚠️ Heavy flooding will disrupt Devon and Cornwall rail services into the first week of February.

The area continues to experience flooding from #StormChandra, with further yellow weather warnings for heavy rain in place until Saturday morning:

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"A sudden rainbow"
#arcoiris #repentino #barrio #calle #ciudad #urbanphotography #urbana #cork #thelough #esperandoelbus #aftertherain #afterthestorm #despuesdelalluvia #lluvioso #díasdelluvia #despuesdelatormenta #stormchandra

We've had some stormy weather recently ⛈️
Check out our latest blog post to find out:

💡 how you can prepare for unexpected power cuts
💡 who to contact if you have a power outage

Read it here ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/3zuahef6

#PowerCuts #Advice #StormChandra #Plymouth

There's a good reason past generations of town planners avoided building houses and shops on river floodplains, which they clearly marked on their historical OS maps.

SkyCam Ireland showing the devastating flooding caused by Storm Frank in 2015 at Enniscorthy.
#StormChandra ##Wexford