Dalek invasion on Harlech
| 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.
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. 
Around its base were thousands of stranded mussels bemoaning the summer storms.
Huw Jenkins
Wave buoy's explained on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Wales Surfing
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