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
National data buoy centre
Wave buoy's explained on BBC Wales Surfing
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