Devon Weather Watchers have helped forecasters

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Ten years ago today, it was a damp day in Kingswear
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Flooding struck parts of Devon, including in Bradninch, on 7 February 2016
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A week later, it was a snowy Valentine's Day on Dartmoor, as this photo from near Buckfastleigh shows
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Torquay was greeted with a stunning sunrise on 27 February 2016
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Even this helicopter needed to take cover from the weather in Plymouth on 24 June 2017
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This shipwreck in Crow Point was looking splendid in the sunny but cloudy conditions on 8 April 2018
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A boat was at the end of this rainbow in Plymouth on 9 August 2018
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A boating lake in Paignton became Swan Lake in more ways than one on 22 August 2018
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The waves were crashing into the coast at Goodrington on 29 October 2019
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New Year's Day in Bovey Tracey in 2020 was a damp day
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Budleigh Salterton's Christmas Day sunrise in 2020 lit up the sky with a pallet of orange as the waves hit the beach
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The rain fell in Braunton on 28 July 2021 during what looked like a mixed day of weather conditions
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It was blue skies and light cloud cover in Great Torrington on 12 September 2022 as the union jack flew at half mast after Queen Elizabeth II's death four days earlier
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Calm waters greeted the sunset in Teignmouth on 6 March 2023
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The Scorhill stone circle near Gidleigh, north Dartmoor, was covered overhead by clouds on 26 May 2024
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Two people were checking out the surf conditions on Croyde beach on 9 November 2025
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The Northern Lights have captured on camera several times by Weather Watchers including in Westward Ho! on 12 November 2025

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South West viewers have been sending "invaluable" photos to help weather forecasters for a decade.

BBC Weather Watchers has celebrated its 10th birthday after being launched to get people to post photos from their local area to show what weather conditions were like there.

Since it started, Weather Watchers have sent in photos from Devon showing a wide array of conditions from snow, sunshine, storms and even the Northern Lights.

David Braine, BBC South West's senior broadcast meteorologist, said the pictures have helped add extra colour to forecasts on TV.

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Braine said: "We now start our local TV weather forecast with two Weather Watcher photos from the day to set the scene.

"It is an invaluable local source of information for me and of course a great job for those who have made the effort to send in their reports to see them used."

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