:00:12. > :00:16.27 million of us are going on holiday this summer, staycation or
:00:16. > :00:26.vacation, we will tell you where to find the sun. Tonight on The Great
:00:26. > :00:34.
:00:34. > :00:38.Hello, and welcome to The Great British Weather, live from
:00:38. > :00:43.Grennwich Park in London. For hundreds of years astronomers at
:00:43. > :00:47.the Royal Observatory behind me have been peering up the heavens.
:00:47. > :00:52.So will we as The Great British Weather goes in search of the sun
:00:52. > :00:55.and our elusive summer. The sun is out and so are the
:00:55. > :01:00.weather fans in London. They can't wait to get involved with the
:01:00. > :01:04.programme. We want you at home to do exactly the same, send in photos
:01:04. > :01:14.and also solve a few queries. For example, your favourite summer song.
:01:14. > :01:15.
:01:15. > :01:24.Here are a few. We're Walking On Sunshine. Bring Me Sunshine. We're
:01:24. > :01:29.Having a Heatwave. Well done for rembering those, join in, e-mail us
:01:29. > :01:33.on the website. We will play out with a favourite summer song at the
:01:33. > :01:37.end of the programme. Coming up: are you about to book your summer
:01:37. > :01:42.holiday, hold off, John Kettley is here to tell you where to find the
:01:42. > :01:45.best weather home and away this summer.
:01:45. > :01:49.Strictly's Craig Revel Horwood goes through the history of tanning.
:01:49. > :01:52.so long ago tan was not so sought after.
:01:52. > :02:02.As the temperature rise, the supermarkets are watching you, they
:02:02. > :02:02.
:02:02. > :02:07.know what you want to buy before you do. But find out how tonight.
:02:07. > :02:11.Rising from the Ashes, Freddie Flintoff is here live to get to the
:02:11. > :02:15.bottom of a weather cricketing conundrum.
:02:15. > :02:18.At the end of the show I will attempt to recreate one of
:02:18. > :02:24.weather's deadliest phenomenon, brought to us curtesy of the yellow
:02:24. > :02:30.thing up there, the sun. It is hot and wild, and never been seen live
:02:30. > :02:34.on television, I'm talking about a fire tornado. Gang, can I do it?
:02:34. > :02:38.NO! They saw the rehearsals, never behind, Carol Kirkwood, tell me,
:02:38. > :02:42.please, what is a fire tornado. Spookily it is a tornado with fire
:02:42. > :02:47.inside it. The name gives it away a touch. You tend to find t they are
:02:47. > :02:50.rare, you tend to find it where it is really dry, where there are
:02:50. > :02:55.wildfires, we have the vortex the tornado coming across it. It scoops
:02:55. > :02:59.up the fire inside it and rotates all the way inside it too. Have you
:02:59. > :03:07.seen many in the UK? No, they are very rare. Dedefinitely will have
:03:07. > :03:12.one by the end of the show. Also the thing we really want to do is
:03:12. > :03:15.introduce our weather map. It has travelled well from the Lake
:03:15. > :03:19.District, it survived that rainy weather. Even our landmarks are
:03:19. > :03:23.still on it. Don't forget, obviously, we want you to tell us
:03:23. > :03:27.what the weather is like, exactly where you are. The Met Office said
:03:27. > :03:31.this is unbelievable, they have never seen a better way of
:03:31. > :03:35.monitoring the weather, second by second in the UK. That is
:03:35. > :03:40.absolutely right, and last week we were just missing a couple of place,
:03:40. > :03:44.the Outer Hebrides, the Isle of Skye, do send in pictures from
:03:44. > :03:48.there, Dumfries, Lincoln and Swansea. What's wrong with you
:03:48. > :03:52.Swansea, get out there, we want to see photographs there. When you are
:03:52. > :03:56.sitting there at home, you can take part, get up off the sofa, take a
:03:56. > :04:00.photograph and get in touch. How do they do that? You get in touch with
:04:01. > :04:03.us by sending your pictures to the website.
:04:03. > :04:07.Include your name, postcode and also where you took the photo.
:04:07. > :04:11.Tonight we don't want to see a centimeter of land, do get snapping.
:04:11. > :04:15.I also want to say we have got a weather front coming in tonight to
:04:15. > :04:18.Northern Ireland, affecting parts of western Scotland, eventually too.
:04:18. > :04:21.At the moment it might be dry for example, where you are, say in
:04:21. > :04:26.Belfast, but as the weather front comes through, there will be rain
:04:26. > :04:30.and also a drop in temperature, we want to see your before and after
:04:30. > :04:33.pictures. Please send them to us. Our summer may be a bit of a damp
:04:33. > :04:41.squib so far this year, but tonight we are here to bring a little
:04:41. > :04:45.sunshine into our life. Dig, if you will, a long hot sizzling summer.
:04:45. > :04:51.The heat is still on in parts of Britain, with temperatures soaring
:04:51. > :04:56.to 32 degrees. In central London it is officially a scourger. The great
:04:56. > :05:01.British summer bathes us in 362 more hours of glorious sunshine
:05:01. > :05:07.throughout June, July and August, than in the chilly winter months.
:05:07. > :05:11.The jempures started high at 20 degrees at 6.200. Hottest of all is
:05:11. > :05:17.the south coast, where Eastbourne holds the record for the UK's
:05:17. > :05:21.sunnyist summer month. It still battles annually with Bognor Regis
:05:21. > :05:25.of sunnyist spot in the UK. No matter where we live, us Brits
:05:25. > :05:29.always cry out for more. We don't always have a soggy summer,
:05:29. > :05:33.sometimes the sun arrives in the British sky and stays here for week,
:05:33. > :05:40.it refuses to budge as Britain bakes. That means only one thing,
:05:40. > :05:45.we are having a hot, hot heatwave. To get the heatwave we say we crave,
:05:45. > :05:49.the Met Office definition demands at least two consecutive days of
:05:50. > :05:53.high temperatures. For London this would mean 32 degrees Celsius or
:05:53. > :05:59.above, or for northern cities like Newcastle, 28 degrees or above.
:05:59. > :06:03.Britain's in the grip of one of the longest heatwaves for years.
:06:03. > :06:08.last severe heatwave was in 200. For once, the brollies are being
:06:08. > :06:13.used as par sols. It featured the UK's highest recorded temperature.
:06:13. > :06:20.A health warning is in place in the Midlands and the south-east. On the
:06:20. > :06:25.10th of August it reached a record- breaking 38.5 in fafrpb sham in
:06:25. > :06:29.Kent. This long swaift of dry land is why there are fears of a drought.
:06:29. > :06:36.While it was the hottest, 27 years previously the nation was gripped
:06:36. > :06:40.with a heatwave, more sustained and far more serious. Britain had
:06:41. > :06:47.experienced its driest 18 months on record. Reservoirs were empty, and
:06:48. > :06:52.the ground was parched. On the 26th of June, a temperature of 35
:06:52. > :07:00.degrees Celsius was recorded in the UK for the first time in the
:07:00. > :07:03.20tsenttree. - 20th century, Roy Hattersley and his cabinet
:07:03. > :07:07.colleagues were starting to get concerned. We were getting to the
:07:07. > :07:11.point where we realised there was problems, we realise add week of
:07:11. > :07:14.heavy rain wouldn't solve it. By the time of the summer recess in
:07:14. > :07:20.parliament we were very worried indeed. Throughout July
:07:20. > :07:26.temperatures at night never dipped below 20 Celsius.
:07:26. > :07:33.Forest fires erupted across the UK. How many hours of sleep on average
:07:33. > :07:37.in 24 have you got? 13 in one week. There wasn't enough water to put
:07:37. > :07:41.them out. Thousands of gallons of sewage have been used on one fire
:07:41. > :07:45.to help conserve dwindling water supplies. A massive area of high
:07:45. > :07:52.pressure sat over most of the UK for another three weeks. The
:07:52. > :08:01.Government had to act. On the 5th August 1976, they passed the
:08:01. > :08:05.drought act. The protestors weren't impressed, they called for the
:08:05. > :08:12.resignation of water officials. They even appointed a special
:08:12. > :08:16.minister to handle the crisis, Dennis how we will. - Powell.
:08:16. > :08:20.took to the job, how shall I put it, like a duck to water. I loved the
:08:20. > :08:25.idea of going around the country telling people they have to stop
:08:25. > :08:29.wasting water. He encouraged us to share bath, put a brick in our
:08:29. > :08:33.toilet cistern, and cut supplies to thousands of homes. Basically the
:08:33. > :08:37.pressure will be reduced so the water will reach the standpipe, but
:08:37. > :08:42.not the individual houses. strict emergency measures were in
:08:42. > :08:46.place for three long week, until one of the most complained about
:08:46. > :08:54.aspects of our great British weather actually came to our rescue.
:08:54. > :08:57.During the August bank holiday, it rained. Dennis took credit for the
:08:57. > :09:02.rain, he spent days being photographed under an umbrella
:09:02. > :09:06.looking up at the clouds. downpour continued for ten days
:09:06. > :09:09.straight. Suddenly he was the rain maker. Some how he became a hero,
:09:09. > :09:16.and for a moment it seemed the Government itself, rather than
:09:16. > :09:24.nature had solved the problem. The heatwave of 1976 destroyed
:09:25. > :09:28.thousands of acres of forest. It ruined �500 million worth of crops,
:09:28. > :09:34.and sent food prices soaring. So the next time you are longing for a
:09:34. > :09:38.hot summer, be careful what you wish for.
:09:38. > :09:41.So Carol, that is how heat has affected us historically, but heat
:09:41. > :09:45.at the moment is causing all sorts of problems across North America.
:09:45. > :09:49.In Canada as well. There has been tremendous temperatures, in
:09:49. > :09:57.Washington, for example, by day, the temperature got up to 40 sell
:09:57. > :10:00.yu, but by night, - Celsius, but by night 29 Celsius, and high humidity,
:10:00. > :10:03.so uncomfortable. That is a crucial factor? Yes t your body doesn't
:10:03. > :10:08.work as effectively cooling down as it would in normal circumstances
:10:08. > :10:14.with those kind of levels. 29 at night, you will never sleep through
:10:14. > :10:19.that? It affected probably about 132 million in America at its peak,
:10:19. > :10:23.thrches an excessive heat warn d there was an excessive heat warning
:10:23. > :10:29.at the time, so they tell you not to do things, if you can stay in
:10:29. > :10:34.with air conditioning, do, don't do anything strenuous, it could lead
:10:34. > :10:38.to heat stroke. That is when you want a pool to throw yourself into
:10:38. > :10:42.it? In a public pool in Philadelphia there were shifts. To
:10:42. > :10:46.cool down you would go in for 30 minutes and then somebody else
:10:46. > :10:50.would go in. But it felt, apparently, a chap in New York said
:10:50. > :10:53.being in those kind of conditions, with the high humidity and high
:10:53. > :10:56.temperatures was very much like being in a sauna.
:10:56. > :11:00.Let's hope we don't get that. Over to Chris who has found
:11:00. > :11:07.something very important to point out on the London skyline.
:11:07. > :11:10.Take a look at that, that is the capital city of England, London,
:11:10. > :11:14.Canary Wharf and the Millennium Dome. If you go inbetween there,
:11:14. > :11:18.you will probably make out the Olympic Stadium. The Olympic Park
:11:18. > :11:22.in Stratford. A year from today, that will have a giant torch being
:11:22. > :11:27.lit for the opening ceremony. Just behind me here, at Grennwich Park,
:11:27. > :11:30.this is where they will have the equestrian events. We are hoping
:11:30. > :11:34.for some really lovely weather. You know what they say about Britain,
:11:34. > :11:39.three lovely day, followed by a thunderstorm. That is especially
:11:39. > :11:45.true if you think out there to the south-east, as soon as the
:11:45. > :11:49.temperature rise, the south-east becomes the UK's thunder factory.
:11:49. > :11:53.Now, we all love it when the sun eventually comes out on a lovely
:11:53. > :11:58.British summer's day, but did you know that the sun's heat is the
:11:58. > :12:03.vital ingredient for one of the most powerful, beautiful and down
:12:03. > :12:05.right awesome displays of weather in nature. I'm talking about
:12:05. > :12:11.thunderstorms. I'm going to find out exactly how
:12:11. > :12:17.they work. With a temperature of 30,000
:12:17. > :12:20.degrees, lightning is six-sometimes hotter than the surface of the sun.
:12:20. > :12:30.The air around is rapidly heated until it explodes, creating a
:12:30. > :12:36.shockwave, which we know as thunder. There are three main types of
:12:36. > :12:41.lightning that strike the UK each year, each equally spectacular but
:12:41. > :12:45.with different levels of danger. The most common type of lightning
:12:45. > :12:49.is intercloud, it happens within the cloud. It is flash of light
:12:50. > :12:53.followed by a few flickers, it is also known as sheet lightning. It
:12:53. > :12:57.is awesome. There is intercloud lightning, happening between two
:12:57. > :13:02.different clouds, one positive type of one cloud and one negative of
:13:02. > :13:06.another, the lightning flies across. I'm perfectly safe here, but up
:13:06. > :13:10.there in a plane? Now the most dangerous lightning of them all is
:13:10. > :13:16.from cloud to ground. The negative charge of the cloud meets the
:13:16. > :13:21.positive charge of the earth, creating a bolt. It is potentially
:13:21. > :13:25.lethal. Yes, on average, 10-20 people are struck by lightning in
:13:25. > :13:33.the UK each year. Whilst it might be a dazzling display to watch, it
:13:33. > :13:38.is best to keep out of its way. In the UK, do you noi the chances
:13:38. > :13:42.of being - know the chances of being hit by lightning is one in
:13:42. > :13:45.1.4 million. What are the chances of three members of the same family
:13:45. > :13:52.being struck at three different times, impossible, I hear you say.
:13:52. > :13:56.But meet the unluckiest family in the world. Two Mr Langhams, Tom and
:13:56. > :14:01.John, you have all been hit by lightning, when did it happen to
:14:01. > :14:05.you? About a month ago at school. I was coming out of work, put up my
:14:05. > :14:10.umbrella, looked around, I got smacked by a bolt of lightning. I
:14:10. > :14:13.had witnessed and I'm not making it up. It happened to your grandma?
:14:13. > :14:17.She was standing under a tree, a bolt of lightning hit the tree and
:14:17. > :14:24.split it in half, and knocked her to the ground. Gasps here, what
:14:24. > :14:28.happened for you? I took my son to a five-a-side football competition,
:14:29. > :14:33.it came over dark, I put the umbrella up, thunder, lightning,
:14:33. > :14:38.went down my arm and knocked it out of my hand. We see it in cartoon,
:14:38. > :14:45.smoke comes out your ears and your hair goes curly, what is it like?
:14:45. > :14:48.At first it doesn't hurt, after about 30 seconds your muscles start
:14:48. > :14:54.contracting, and your body all over hurts and it is like a good workout
:14:54. > :14:57.in the gym. Was it like that for you? Tingling down my arm. Thank
:14:57. > :15:02.goodness you both survived that, and you are here. Please be careful.
:15:02. > :15:06.I have a feeling, Carol, if it goes cloudy and a bit stormy, I'm making
:15:06. > :15:09.a run, these are the last people you want standing next to you?
:15:09. > :15:13.think you are right. If you are unlucky enough to be caught and
:15:13. > :15:16.there is lightning around, there are lots of things to keep safe,
:15:16. > :15:22.get inside into a sturdy building. Don't stand next to a tree, you
:15:22. > :15:27.don't want to be the tallest thing on the horizon, get away from metal,
:15:27. > :15:32.bicycles, glofl club, umbrella, and crouch down on your hunkers, with
:15:32. > :15:40.your hands on your knee, and your head between your knee, you don't
:15:40. > :15:44.want much contact with the ground if you can help it. We have heard
:15:44. > :15:49.the saying raining cats and dog, but there was a case of raining
:15:49. > :15:53.fish in London, 11 miles away from where we are now. It is no secret
:15:53. > :15:57.that the great British weather can be a bit unpredictable. If I were
:15:57. > :16:02.to forecast it was going to rain fish, you would probably think I
:16:02. > :16:06.was mad. But in the last 100 years, there have been a staggering 600
:16:06. > :16:15.reports of fish falling from the sky in Britain. From the beaches of
:16:15. > :16:20.Great Yarmouth, to the valleys of mid-Wales. If you thought that was
:16:20. > :16:25.weird, in 1998, here in Shirley in Croydon, something very bizarre
:16:25. > :16:30.happened, it is believed to have rained frogs.
:16:30. > :16:36.Have you ever seen it rain frogs here? No. Do you think it is a bit
:16:36. > :16:42.weird? Yeah. Did you know it has rained frogs here? Frogs? Frogs
:16:42. > :16:49.falling from the sky? No you are lying. We had floods one time, a
:16:49. > :16:55.river running down here. Any frogs in it? I didn't see any. Are you
:16:55. > :17:00.saying I look like a frog, ribbet! Whoever reported the incident to
:17:00. > :17:04.the Met Office asked to remain anonymous, no-one wants to sound
:17:04. > :17:08.crazy. But it might not be that far fetched. I have been told there is
:17:08. > :17:15.real evidence to suggest that something fishy did happen just 15
:17:15. > :17:21.miles away in East London. It all look place on a stormy night
:17:21. > :17:25.in May, 1984. What the residents of Central Park road in East Ham found
:17:25. > :17:29.the next morning made them question if they had actually lived through
:17:29. > :17:39.a miracle. Following a heavy downpour, a local resident reported
:17:39. > :17:40.
:17:40. > :17:46.that he had proof that fish had fallen from the sky. The today
:17:46. > :17:51.thing about the fish falls and falls of frogs and things like that,
:17:51. > :17:55.is they drop in a confined space. In this case they were in a man's
:17:55. > :17:59.back garden. The strange Esthery is they teleported, appeared at a
:17:59. > :18:04.point in the sky and then dropped. There is no proof of that. We have
:18:04. > :18:08.fish falling in a small area, the skiz of a back garden, surely -
:18:08. > :18:13.size of a back garden, surely somebody could come and chuck fish
:18:13. > :18:17.over the fence? This was called the fishmonger theory. That somebody
:18:18. > :18:21.with a surplus of stock got rid of them. They are not edible, I don't
:18:21. > :18:25.think a fishmonger got rid of his stock. When I came along to see the
:18:25. > :18:29.man, there was a builder working on his house, it was a few days later.
:18:29. > :18:33.The builder very kindly went up the ladder and on to the roof, there
:18:33. > :18:40.were the fishes in the gutter. if they were found in the gutters,
:18:40. > :18:46.surely the fish could only have come from above? Bob took samples
:18:46. > :18:52.to London's Natural History Museum. It was now up to fish curator,
:18:52. > :18:55.Oliver Crimmon to solve the mystery. These are the original fish from
:18:55. > :19:00.1984 preserved? They are. They are actually quite, what I would
:19:00. > :19:07.consider, as a large fish falling from the sky, it is not a tiny
:19:07. > :19:12.little thing? No. What is interesting is you have two species,
:19:12. > :19:17.smelt and flounder, and both of these species are common in the
:19:17. > :19:24.River Thames. The Thames is just three miles from where the fish
:19:24. > :19:29.allegedly fell. So Oliver came up with a theory. It involved a
:19:29. > :19:36.tornado-type wind that occurs over water. Known as a waterspout. High
:19:36. > :19:40.winds over a lake, river, or the sea, can form a vortex. Reaching up
:19:40. > :19:44.to 200 miles an hour, they have the strength to suck up objects from a
:19:44. > :19:49.metre below the surface of the water. These objects then stay up
:19:49. > :19:56.in the sky, as the vortex dissipates it starts raining and
:19:56. > :19:59.what goes up must come down. I think it is amazing, I'm looking at
:19:59. > :20:05.a fish here, that was deep inside a cloud somewhere up there,
:20:05. > :20:10.spiralling around, and it fell to the ground over 20-odd years ago,
:20:10. > :20:14.and here it is. Very bizarre. So, the next time someone says it
:20:14. > :20:19.has been raining cats and dog, you never know, they might just be
:20:20. > :20:23.telling the truth. So, as we have seen experts think
:20:23. > :20:28.that animals or objects can be pulled up from a waterspout, you
:20:28. > :20:31.can see an example of one here at the moment. It was captured in
:20:31. > :20:36.Brighton. What happens is it is very much like a tornado, except it
:20:36. > :20:42.is over water, we have the same column of spiralling air, and as it
:20:42. > :20:46.moves across the water, it picks stuff up, it will throw out fish or
:20:46. > :20:52.bits of debris, an old log, whatever comes in its path, it
:20:52. > :20:57.won't make it terribly long, if it makes it to land it changes back to
:20:57. > :21:01.a tornado. As well as fish, other bizarre items have rained down on
:21:02. > :21:08.the earth, worms, that happened in Scotland, soft drinks' cans have
:21:08. > :21:14.come down, and a turtle in Mississippi in the United States.
:21:14. > :21:20.know millions of kids writing down the excuse for losing homework,
:21:20. > :21:23.waterspout scooping it up! A quick update now. Pictures are
:21:23. > :21:26.coming flying in. No waterspouts just yet. I doubt we will see any
:21:26. > :21:31.of those. The great news is I have already got something from Swansea,
:21:31. > :21:36.I knew they wouldn't let me down. It didn't take you very long. It
:21:36. > :21:40.looks like not a bad little evening there. I have to saying, one thing
:21:40. > :21:44.that is striking me is how blue everything is, there is a lot of
:21:44. > :21:47.pleasant sunshine this evening. I was telling you earlier about
:21:48. > :21:52.Belfast, and there is a weather front coming in had. Jonathan
:21:52. > :21:54.Godfrey, you have sent us this picture of Belfast, it looks like
:21:55. > :21:58.it might start raining. That weather front is heading towards
:21:58. > :22:01.the east coast of Northern Ireland. It should be there by the end of
:22:01. > :22:04.the programme. It will also swing maybe by the end of the programme,
:22:04. > :22:08.maybe not, into the Mull of Kintyre, which is here. It is so important
:22:08. > :22:13.that you do get in touch with us, we desperately want to know what is
:22:13. > :22:17.happening with the weather now. I can't tell you how important it is
:22:17. > :22:20.to the Met Office. It is now coming up to 8.00, you
:22:20. > :22:29.have another 20 minutes to get the photographs to us. Take a picture
:22:29. > :22:34.of the weather and send it to the website below.
:22:34. > :22:38.It is an hour and 20 minutes until sundown now in the silly Isles. One
:22:38. > :22:44.hour until that happens in London. You lucky Shetland islanders have
:22:44. > :22:49.an hour and 54 minutes left. Here is what is to come on the show.
:22:49. > :22:56.Craig Revel Horwood gets under the skin of our tanning obsession.
:22:56. > :22:59.How do supermarkets forecast what you want tomorrow, yesterday. John
:22:59. > :23:02.Kettley spills the meteorological beans, where is the best place to
:23:03. > :23:10.find the sun this weekend. Also it will be August in four days time,
:23:10. > :23:14.will it be a washout or a scourger? Stay tuned.
:23:14. > :23:21.Quick question, sausage or burger? Me, I'm a fool for a chop, you know
:23:21. > :23:25.that, Chris. Oops, we haven't ordered any. Millions of us, 120
:23:26. > :23:31.million barbecues take place each year, I might have overdone the
:23:31. > :23:35.sasauges, we buy them, burgers, the odd drumstick and a bit of salad
:23:35. > :23:40.when the sun comes out. But how do the supermarkets know exactly what
:23:40. > :23:49.to stock up on and when. As you go about your daily lives, did you
:23:49. > :23:53.know, strange forces are at work. Weather is big business,
:23:53. > :23:59.multinationals all over the world pay huge sums of money for long
:23:59. > :24:03.range weather forecasts. But why? Well, a 2003 study revealed if
:24:03. > :24:09.companies account for the weather within their business plans, it
:24:09. > :24:17.could boost sales by �4.5 billion per year. One company that really
:24:17. > :24:24.focuses on the weather, is the supermarket chain Sainsbury's. So
:24:24. > :24:28.much so they have a strategic weather forecast meeting every day.
:24:28. > :24:31.Morning everybody. They pay for incredibly detailed long range
:24:31. > :24:35.weather forecasts so they can plan what goods to stock. They wouldn't
:24:35. > :24:40.tell us how much that costs? Who is looking after Scotland? What they
:24:40. > :24:49.did tell us is the technology allows them to work between eight
:24:49. > :24:55.and ten days ahead. We need to downgrade the weekend from hot to
:24:55. > :24:59.warm, based on the fact that it will be raining pretty much across
:24:59. > :25:04.the region. West Midlands and East Anglia. Temperature and conditions
:25:04. > :25:09.are unsettled until Saturday. they have the data it is up to them
:25:09. > :25:15.to predict how the weather will affect consumer buying, or for you
:25:15. > :25:19.and me what they put on the shelves? We need some macs and
:25:19. > :25:23.umbrellas for the forecasted weather. So crucial is the weather
:25:23. > :25:29.in the sales of some products, supermarkets only decide on the
:25:29. > :25:33.quantteets to order one day in - quantities to order one day in vans.
:25:33. > :25:37.It seems strange that a company this big would make decisions on
:25:37. > :25:42.the weather? It defines what shoppers buy and defines what we do.
:25:43. > :25:46.It is not just Sainsbury's, Tescos told us that the first sign in
:25:46. > :25:51.frost peak as demand for cauliflowwer, long-life milk and
:25:51. > :25:56.bird feed. In hot weather Sainsbury's can see the sales of
:25:56. > :26:01.hair removal products increase by a whopping 400%. Barbecue sales can
:26:01. > :26:06.leap up 200%, it pays to have them in stock. One of the items that is
:26:06. > :26:12.most sensitive to changes in the weather is the modest lettuce leaf.
:26:12. > :26:16.It is a nice sunny summer, what difference does it make in terms of
:26:16. > :26:21.salad sales? Overall about 60% more salads, we have 22 million
:26:21. > :26:31.customers a week, you can imagine the difference in warm summer or a
:26:31. > :26:31.
:26:31. > :26:35.cool, wet summer is millions and millions. We buy �450 million bags
:26:35. > :26:41.of salad a year. Because they have a short shelf life, supermarkets
:26:41. > :26:51.are careful not to overstock. We receive the orders on the day
:26:51. > :26:54.for the day of outload, freshness is citka. The orders transmitted to
:26:54. > :26:59.- critical. The orders are transmitted from the factory, we
:26:59. > :27:04.can have it cut at 8.00am, three hours later it is washed and on a
:27:04. > :27:08.lorry by late afternoon. In good weather the farm could be
:27:08. > :27:12.asked to supply twice the normal amount, but at the first sign of
:27:12. > :27:16.rain that could all change. weather play as huge role in
:27:16. > :27:23.influencing the orders, at the end of the day we're vulnerable to the
:27:23. > :27:27.shopping habits of the consumer in the supermarket, they won't pick up
:27:27. > :27:34.bag salads if it isn't the right weather. Shoppers respond
:27:34. > :27:39.differently depending on where they live. In Scotland 20 degrees sees
:27:39. > :27:44.BBQ sales triple. In London it has to reach 24 degrees before the same
:27:44. > :27:48.statistic applies. There are common trends, supermarkets sell more ice-
:27:48. > :27:53.cream on a sunny cool day than a cloudy day. While sales rise with
:27:53. > :27:56.temperature, once it hits25 degrees, sales of tubbed ice-cream crop, as
:27:56. > :28:00.people worry it will melt before they get home. The next time the
:28:01. > :28:07.sun is shining and you reach for that BBQ in your local supermarket,
:28:07. > :28:12.remember, they knew what you were going to buy before you did.
:28:12. > :28:22.There is a lot more to weather than just eyes sow cars and weather
:28:22. > :28:24.
:28:24. > :28:29.fronts. Later we will tell you the best places to find - isobars and
:28:29. > :28:33.weather fronts. You have sent in your pictures.
:28:33. > :28:37.Look at the colours. Lovely trees in the background. Some blue skies
:28:37. > :28:43.there as well. A little bit of mist in this one.
:28:43. > :28:50.But I must say I like this one, what is your name? Diab. Where is
:28:50. > :28:53.that picture taken? The whirl. is it taken by? Brian Williams.
:28:53. > :28:57.amazing memory, that is written on the back of the card, you didn't
:28:57. > :29:02.need it. Look at the sun there, often people think the sun at
:29:02. > :29:06.sunset is larger than it is perhaps at midday. But, of course, it is
:29:06. > :29:09.not, it is an optical illusion, the sun is the same size all the time.
:29:09. > :29:13.We have pictures you have sent in during the course of the week.
:29:13. > :29:17.Another beauty of a sunset. Put simply, the sky is red here because
:29:17. > :29:20.at sunset the light is travelling through more of the atmosphere. The
:29:21. > :29:24.atmosphere is full of dust particle that is scatter the blue and the
:29:24. > :29:27.green parts of the light spectrum. We have another one to show you as
:29:27. > :29:33.well. The more dust particles there are in the atmosphere, you can see
:29:33. > :29:38.it here too, the redder the sky ray peers. A different picture here is
:29:38. > :29:42.sun pillars, that is a beauty, you don't often see this, a sun pillar
:29:42. > :29:48.is basically a shaft of light coming from the top or bottom of
:29:48. > :29:52.the sun during sunset or sunrise. It is caused by the light being
:29:52. > :29:58.refracted during tiny ice crystals in the atmosphere. Thank you for
:29:58. > :30:02.your fantastic pictures, next week we want your weird and wonderful
:30:02. > :30:07.weather forecasts, you have seen maybe a tornado or a sun.
:30:07. > :30:12.You are probably thinking what is a funny sun?
:30:12. > :30:17.I know exactly what that is. One thing all footballers agree on,
:30:17. > :30:20.even if they can't explain it properly, is the offside rule. Do
:30:20. > :30:24.you know cricket fans have something they believe almost as
:30:24. > :30:31.firmly, it is hard to explain, but it is to do with the cricket ball
:30:31. > :30:35.and the weather. This man, Freddie Flintoff is about to explain it all.
:30:35. > :30:40.Everyone knows that a certain great British game is always at the mercy
:30:40. > :30:46.of the great British weather. But there is one weather-related
:30:46. > :30:49.cricket phenomenon, that no-one has ever been able to explain. I play
:30:49. > :30:53.professional cricket at the highest level for many years, I know the
:30:53. > :30:56.weather can have a dramatic effect on the outcome of a game. I don't
:30:56. > :31:01.just mean bad light or rain stopping play, I'm on about things
:31:01. > :31:05.that you may never have even thought about.
:31:05. > :31:10.Cricketers from the thousands of local village teams up and down the
:31:10. > :31:16.country, to some of the game's biggest stars, have an unshakeable
:31:16. > :31:21.belief in the power of a cloudy sky. As a bowler my favourite conditions
:31:21. > :31:25.to bowl are overcast cloudy conditions. As a batsman I like hot
:31:25. > :31:29.sunny conditions, there is less swing, so subsequently you get more
:31:29. > :31:36.runs, much more comfortable. the players I know believe that a
:31:36. > :31:40.grey sky can help a bowled ball change direction. The most crucial
:31:40. > :31:44.part for a bowler is swing, swing is when it leaves a fast bowler's
:31:44. > :31:48.hand and you can see it move in the air. It is the one thing that
:31:48. > :31:51.batsmen do not like. I believe that is caused a lot by the skill of the
:31:51. > :31:57.bowler, but also overhead conditions. But don't just take my
:31:57. > :32:01.word for it. I think the theory definitely works, I bowled hundreds
:32:01. > :32:07.of balls throughout my career, the theory of when it swings I totally
:32:07. > :32:11.agree with. Overcast, very cloudy, a little bit humid and sticky, the
:32:12. > :32:15.ball would swing a lot more than on a hot day with clear blue skies.
:32:15. > :32:20.When it is sunny the land heats up, and hot air prices from the land,
:32:20. > :32:24.and what you need for swing is very, very still, stable conditions,
:32:24. > :32:28.around the area of the pitch, about ten feet above. But when it is
:32:28. > :32:33.cloudy, there is no hot air rising from the pitch, and therefore it is
:32:33. > :32:36.a much more stable environment to allow the ball to swing.
:32:36. > :32:40.Cricketers have probably become some of the best weather watchers I
:32:40. > :32:45.have ever known. You wake up in the morning, you open the curtain, you
:32:45. > :32:50.want to see clouds, especially when you are bowling. 2005 in the Ashes
:32:50. > :32:53.when it was cloudy it swung and we took wirbgts, when the sun came out
:32:53. > :32:57.the Australians scored runs, that is a common theory for a long
:32:57. > :33:01.period of time. We think we have the proof and we think we have a
:33:01. > :33:06.theory, does anyone outside the world of sport think we are right?
:33:06. > :33:08.We have been studying this for about 60 years, and really,
:33:08. > :33:14.basically all that effort has really shown us that weather
:33:14. > :33:18.doesn't really seem to have that big an effect. Are you telling me,
:33:18. > :33:28.atmospheric conditions don't effect the ball, are you telling me you
:33:28. > :33:29.
:33:29. > :33:33.can't prove why they affect the ball? I believe you when you say it
:33:33. > :33:37.affects it, but our knowledge doesn't explain why your ball
:33:37. > :33:42.swings more. You are not disproving my theory? I'm not going to
:33:42. > :33:49.disprove your theory, I can't prove it. Who can? I'm going to have to
:33:49. > :33:53.go over Dr David's head. I'm going to speak to the man based at NASA,
:33:53. > :33:57.he's the law on aerodynamics. There is a chance I might be out of my
:33:57. > :34:02.depth. This bloke is going to be clever, he's a rocket scientists.
:34:02. > :34:07.High, it is Fred. How are you. want to find out why cricket balls
:34:07. > :34:12.swing. He has spent 30 years trying to answer this question. One of the
:34:12. > :34:18.theories that has been around for a long time now is the seam on the
:34:18. > :34:22.ball would be affected. In particular by absorbing moisture or
:34:22. > :34:27.damp conditions, when we tested the ball, one of the things was to
:34:27. > :34:31.expose the ball in a special humidity chamber and change the
:34:31. > :34:37.humidity levels in a controlled manner. We got frustrated because
:34:37. > :34:40.we couldn't see differences. In all our testing we couldn't find a
:34:40. > :34:44.positive link between the conditions and the swing on the
:34:44. > :34:48.cricket ball. No-one in the world has worked harder to prove what I
:34:48. > :34:51.and millions of cricket fans think is true. It is pretty guting he
:34:51. > :34:55.thinks it is all nonsense. Today has been interesting, I have
:34:55. > :34:58.learned a few things. The one thing that hasn't happened now, is nobody
:34:58. > :35:04.has disproved my theory. People say they can't prove it, but as of yet,
:35:04. > :35:08.no-one has disproved it. I think it shows that science and cricket just
:35:08. > :35:11.don't mix. I'm going to keep going, advising the lads, when it is
:35:11. > :35:14.overcast and muggy, throw a swing ball! Cheers.
:35:14. > :35:21.Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for the one and only,
:35:21. > :35:27.Freddie Flintoff. Welcome to The Great British
:35:27. > :35:32.Weather, that man from NASA, he just didn't know what was talking
:35:32. > :35:38.about? I could have saved him 30 years of his life, I could have
:35:38. > :35:44.saved him, that if he was studying on men on the moon, instead they
:35:44. > :35:49.have been muck beg with cricket balls and disproving my theory. If
:35:49. > :35:55.you speak to anyone in cricket the ball will swing when it is overcast.
:35:55. > :35:58.We saw it last week at Lords. cricketers you take notice of the
:35:58. > :36:02.weather. In your cricket teams in the past, who was the man who said,
:36:02. > :36:07.I know what's happening right now, it will rain in 25 minutes?
:36:07. > :36:10.Everyone in the team is an ardent weather watcher, you used to stand
:36:10. > :36:14.in the field, every international ground you knew where the weather
:36:14. > :36:17.came from. Back in the day before it got too professional, it
:36:17. > :36:23.determined your night. At night you would see your clouds, you might
:36:24. > :36:27.have a gamble can we go out tonight. Beautiful cloudless sky. Obviously
:36:27. > :36:35.some Test Matchs are saved, some are lost by the weather, on the
:36:35. > :36:41.whole would you say the weather has treated you kindly? In Sri Lanka we
:36:41. > :36:45.had an embarrassing one, we knew it would be dark at 4.30, and we were
:36:45. > :36:50.getting hammered. We started taking drinks out, we managed to save the
:36:50. > :36:55.game. You say gamble, you moved on
:36:55. > :37:00.quickly there. Before the game got too professional when I started.
:37:00. > :37:04.The boys are saying it will pour down tomorrow, let's go for a
:37:04. > :37:08.drinky poos, suddenly you wake up, sunshine, give me some examples
:37:08. > :37:11.where you got caught out? There is a couple of times when you open the
:37:11. > :37:16.curtains in the morning and think, no. But on the whole we got it
:37:16. > :37:21.right. You must get to play in the most
:37:21. > :37:27.fantastic claim climate, slilangka, Zimbabwe, India, Pakistan, you must
:37:27. > :37:33.see amazing weather? In Zimbabwe we kept touring there, the under-19s,
:37:33. > :37:40.and the England tour, they always sent on the rainy season, we had
:37:40. > :37:46.four days out of 19 playing. The worst was slilang can, we played a
:37:46. > :37:55.one-day international in 55 degrees of heat. We had to get a runner out
:37:55. > :38:01.there because we were so dehydrated. You see the England cricketers
:38:01. > :38:06.going bright pink and shelfing up? You come off and put the ice bath
:38:06. > :38:12.on and the ice vest. It was good for the weight, you get a few pound
:38:12. > :38:20.off. What is your favourite summer song? Favourite is Summertime, the
:38:20. > :38:29.Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff. What is your favourite song, I
:38:29. > :38:35.think know the answer to this? Bryan Adams Summer of 69. He's
:38:35. > :38:38.brilliant, don't you think? Thank you, tonight we are coming live
:38:38. > :38:43.from the Royal Observatory, where for centuries astronomers have
:38:43. > :38:50.studied the sun. Because of it our planet is neither too hot nor too
:38:50. > :38:55.cold. Without it we would have no light, no energy and no weather.
:38:55. > :39:05.Get ready to meet the governor of the great wrirb weather.
:39:05. > :39:08.- British weather. It has been running things for
:39:08. > :39:14.four-and-a-half million years. Ruling over us from a distance of
:39:14. > :39:24.93 million miles. It contains 99% of all the mass in our entire solar
:39:24. > :39:27.
:39:27. > :39:32.system. Its surface is 5,500 Celsius.
:39:32. > :39:37.Its core is 2,000-times hotter than that. Driven by continuous hydrogen
:39:37. > :39:43.fusion, every second it creates the same amount of energy as one
:39:43. > :39:47.trillion atomic bombs. As this energy and heat exploids from its
:39:47. > :39:52.surface, it takes eight - explodes from its surface, it takes eight
:39:52. > :39:58.minutes to reach our planet. Half a billionth of this energy makes it
:39:58. > :40:07.to the earth's surface, this tiny fraction of its power is enough to
:40:07. > :40:17.drive our entire climate. Evaporating water from our enormous
:40:17. > :40:27.oceans and warming vast air masses to create global weather systems.
:40:27. > :40:27.
:40:27. > :40:31.People of Britain, I give you, the sun! The sun is just setting here
:40:31. > :40:40.in London, but not before we learn a little bit more about it. I'm
:40:40. > :40:43.here with space scientist, Maggie Aderin-Pocock, and resident Royal
:40:43. > :40:48.Observatory scientist, Marek Kukula. We have seen the manage any of sans
:40:48. > :40:53.of the sun, so powerful. We - magnificence of the sun, so
:40:53. > :41:00.powerful, we rarely fear it. What is going on in the solar system?
:41:00. > :41:05.well as light, it is spitting out tiny particles, when they hit the
:41:05. > :41:10.earth, the air molecules light up and we call them the northern light.
:41:10. > :41:14.Other examples of solar power are sunspots, what are they? They are
:41:14. > :41:19.quite interesting, like the earth the sun has magnetic field, but the
:41:19. > :41:23.sun's is much stronger. Where you get a sort of collection of very,
:41:23. > :41:28.very strong magnetic light you get sunspots. They are cooler than the
:41:28. > :41:32.rest of the surface of the sun. This is where cor crown that
:41:32. > :41:39.natural injections and huge matter particles get thrown out into the
:41:39. > :41:44.surrounding space. When the sun goes in we get cold, do we get
:41:44. > :41:49.mini-Ice Ages when we get the cold spots? There are parts of the earth
:41:49. > :41:52.that get colder and that is when the sun might not be producing
:41:52. > :41:57.sunspots, nobody knows what the connection is, that is why it is
:41:57. > :42:01.important to study the sun to know about our climate. The other thing
:42:01. > :42:05.I'm wondering about, eventually that will go out? Like all the
:42:05. > :42:08.other stars in the universe, sun stars only have a certain lifetime,
:42:08. > :42:13.they are like us, burn bright when they are young and as they are
:42:13. > :42:18.older fatter round the milledle. Eventually what will happen is the
:42:18. > :42:25.- the middle, eventually the sun will set bigger and take over the
:42:25. > :42:30.planets, taking over Mercury and Venus, and the earth. When will
:42:30. > :42:38.that happen? We have a good four or five billion years yet. We may
:42:38. > :42:45.stilling on - still be on air by then. And Carol Kirkwood may still
:42:45. > :42:50.be in her 30s? What a cheek. More e-mails have been coming, tonight
:42:50. > :42:56.we have been asking you to e-mail about your favourite summer songs.
:42:56. > :43:05.Stephen says Summer Loving from the Grease soundtrack. And Dover
:43:05. > :43:10.Weather, what about that for a name. They say Blackhorse Sun by Sound
:43:10. > :43:16.Garden. I have a nice story from Roger, he has picked You Are The
:43:16. > :43:20.Sunshine Of My Life, he says the song came out in the summer of 1973
:43:20. > :43:26.when Patricia and he fell in love and first met. They liked the song
:43:26. > :43:31.and it became their tune. They got engaged in August 1974 and had this
:43:31. > :43:37.song played in their wedding, after 37 years of marriage it is still
:43:37. > :43:40.their song, they still go all gooey when they hear it. Later on we will
:43:40. > :43:45.play out tonight's show with favourite summer song.
:43:45. > :43:54.It has become a national obsession, most of us want it, millions of us
:43:54. > :43:56.travel thousands of miles in search of it and millions fake it. What am
:43:56. > :44:02.I talking about? Craig Revel Horwood has slipped on the tan.
:44:02. > :44:07.Every dancer on Strictly knows there is nothing that sets the
:44:07. > :44:13.floor alight like a gleaming tan. It is not just on the dance floor
:44:13. > :44:17.bronzing reins supreme, it is the same across the country as each
:44:17. > :44:22.summer millions of Brits invade our beaches, parks and lidos to offer
:44:22. > :44:27.themselves to the sun in the mere hope of a deep lucious tan. Three
:44:27. > :44:32.quarters of us like to have a tan at some time in the year. Nearly a
:44:32. > :44:40.quarter go for the year round bronzed look. Not so long ago a tan
:44:40. > :44:48.was not quite so sought after. Up until the early 20tsenttree, if
:44:48. > :44:53.you had a tan it meant you must - 20th century, if you had a tan it
:44:53. > :44:59.meant you worked outside and must be a member of the lower classes.
:44:59. > :45:05.The as risk tocy did all they could do - aristocracy did all they could
:45:05. > :45:09.to maintain pale skin and exposed blue vains, the origin of the -
:45:09. > :45:14.veins, the origin of the phrase "blue blood". The poor were out in
:45:14. > :45:17.the fields and had tans. But industrialisation and urbanisation
:45:17. > :45:22.meant the poor went from the fields into the factories, therefore, they
:45:22. > :45:28.were white. It actually became more attractive to have a tan.
:45:28. > :45:34.And aside from vanity, a healthy justification began to emerge for
:45:34. > :45:40.the latest faxable indulgence of the rich - fashionable indulgence
:45:40. > :45:46.of the rich? Many medical professionals realised the benefits
:45:46. > :45:53.of sun and used it to cure ricts, if you sunbathed, it was like
:45:53. > :45:57.taking a sun cure. By the end of the last century Britain's holiday
:45:57. > :46:02.industry was booming, and beaches up and down the country were packed
:46:02. > :46:06.with sun worshippers revelling in the sun scourging temperatures. I
:46:06. > :46:10.don't need to tell you that not all the summers here are scourging, and
:46:10. > :46:15.the rise of the package holiday meant millions could afford to soak
:46:15. > :46:19.up stronger sunshine abroad. Uninitiated Brits began to get
:46:19. > :46:25.seriously sunburned. Something the rest of the world had managed to
:46:25. > :46:35.avoid for thousands of years. you mind, darling, if I
:46:35. > :46:39.demonstrated some ancient lovely suntan lotions on you? The ancient
:46:39. > :46:45.Egyptians considered light skin more beautiful than dark skin. To
:46:45. > :46:53.achieve the paler look in the climate they used rice brand
:46:53. > :46:58.extract. Modern pharmacologyists refer to it as gamma orizable, its
:46:58. > :47:04.UV properties are used in sun lotions today. Not very prak kel,
:47:04. > :47:09.everything would get stuck to you. - Practical, it would get stuck to
:47:09. > :47:15.you. In ancient Greece Olympic athletes would smother themselves
:47:15. > :47:25.in sand and oil. The oil meant the sand could be rubbed all over the
:47:25. > :47:31.body, as the olympians believed the tiny grains could scatter the UV
:47:31. > :47:37.rays. Christopher Columbus noted in 1592 that islanders used colour
:47:37. > :47:41.pigment as sun block. Red was their favourite colour. Do you wear this
:47:41. > :47:45.on your entire body for the full day? No, because it doesn't rub in.
:47:45. > :47:52.After 500 years of sun worshiping, things have really changed. These
:47:52. > :48:00.days you don't even need the sun to get a tan, you can spray it on, or
:48:00. > :48:05.you can rub it in? Concerns about sun exposure and skin cancer have
:48:05. > :48:11.resulted in a �100 million market in fake tanning, but which part of
:48:11. > :48:15.Great Britain is forking out the most to fake it. Essex very
:48:16. > :48:19.definitely. People in Newcastle, head to toe orange. Probably
:48:19. > :48:24.Scotland. Liverpool because my grandma is tanned all year round,
:48:24. > :48:30.she's from there. It is true, a whopping 59% of Merseysideers admit
:48:30. > :48:37.to faking it five or more times each mond. Probably almost as much
:48:37. > :48:42.as - month, probably almost as much as some people I know! Can you
:48:42. > :48:47.imagine us lot on Strictly Come Dancing, without our golden glow?
:48:47. > :48:50.No. Neither can I! Of course the important thing you must remember
:48:50. > :48:55.is if you sunbathe, please use sunscreen. You didn't need me to
:48:55. > :49:05.tell you that. I'm joined by a man who is so good they wrote a song
:49:05. > :49:07.
:49:07. > :49:11.about them, yes, it is John Kettley. I don't know whether it is so good,
:49:12. > :49:18.I don't get the weather forecast right all the time. Nobody has
:49:18. > :49:22.written a song about me. I certainly knew it.
:49:22. > :49:27.A lot of people heading off on holiday this weekend, for people
:49:27. > :49:32.who want to be holidaying in the British Isles, give me your top
:49:32. > :49:35.three spots? You mentioned elusive summer, it is still elusive, still
:49:35. > :49:39.is. This is a retrospective forecast, the good news, Glasgow,
:49:39. > :49:44.everybody watching from Glasgow has had five fantastic days, they have
:49:44. > :49:49.had 70 hours of sunshine up there in Glasgow. Isn't it nice to see
:49:49. > :49:53.Greenland again. Steady now. There is a few hot spots coming up in the
:49:53. > :49:56.next few days. It is not settled. We know the cloud and rain in the
:49:56. > :50:00.west. A few hot spots in the next few day, always the chance of some
:50:00. > :50:10.rain. If you are going anywhere, it is a space I adore, I have to say,
:50:10. > :50:12.
:50:12. > :50:16.it is down around swanage, if the rain comes down you can go to
:50:16. > :50:23.Crawph Castle. The peak district and the Yorkshire Dales will have
:50:23. > :50:28.some sunshine, temperatures up to 23 on the south coast 26, not bad.
:50:28. > :50:32.A good mix of Clement summer weather. People's expectations here
:50:32. > :50:38.are too high. Let's talk about Europe. Where are
:50:38. > :50:44.the hot spots in Europe? Once we get through to this time of year,
:50:44. > :50:49.July, August, it is not weather any more, it is climatology. I by that
:50:49. > :50:55.you mean it is just roasting hot? It is generally the same and pretty
:50:55. > :51:05.hot. Inland Spain and Portugal, inland turkey 35-40 degrees. If you
:51:05. > :51:06.
:51:06. > :51:16.are going down to the coast, you are probably looking at 32-34. The
:51:16. > :51:16.
:51:16. > :51:26.balance lairbacks, you are norm - Balariaic, strangely thunderstorms,
:51:26. > :51:27.
:51:27. > :51:33.normally very hot. If you go further across into Italy, Greece,
:51:33. > :51:36.Turkey and Cyprus, you are looking at temperatures 30-32 for the next
:51:36. > :51:40.few weeks. We are four days away from August, then there is only a
:51:40. > :51:44.month left of us, so tell us, is it going to be a scourger or a
:51:44. > :51:48.washout? I like to think that September is an extension of summer.
:51:48. > :51:52.We should look forward to good weather in September. I think Bill
:51:52. > :51:56.hit the nail on the head last week and said three or four days and the
:51:56. > :52:00.rain comes back. That sums it up for the next month. August will
:52:00. > :52:03.still be mixed. Certainly the potential after a few nice days of
:52:03. > :52:08.wet weather next week. That's John's prediction for August, how
:52:08. > :52:11.is it looking tonight, it is time to reveal the result ones the live
:52:11. > :52:16.weather map. It looks fantastic, look at the
:52:16. > :52:19.amount of blue, for starters on the map.
:52:19. > :52:24.Thank you very much everybody at home, you have really embraced the
:52:24. > :52:29.idea. First of all I didn't think we would get the Orkney Isles, but
:52:29. > :52:34.we did. We are up here in the Shetlands, well done to everybody
:52:34. > :52:37.concerned. I'm in the right place, you are looking very carefully.
:52:37. > :52:40.Something else to point out, Northern Ireland, earlier we were
:52:40. > :52:44.talking about a weather front going through Northern Ireland, here is
:52:44. > :52:51.the picture before the front went through, the choud built, the rain
:52:51. > :52:54.came, and then - the cloud built and the rain came, and then behind
:52:54. > :52:58.it brightened up beautifully, the weather cloud is more into Bangor,
:52:58. > :53:07.and hopefully by the end of the programme, we could well see some
:53:07. > :53:09.rain. No fire tornadoes. I'm going to create a fire tornado. See you
:53:10. > :53:13.in a minute. I hope you have your eyebrows next
:53:13. > :53:16.time I see you. The forecast tomorrow, picking up
:53:16. > :53:19.on the weather front will continue its journey, moving through the
:53:19. > :53:22.rest of Scotland, into the north of England heading south. Ahead of it
:53:22. > :53:25.for southern England tomorrow, it will be fairly cloudy to start the
:53:26. > :53:29.day, the cloud will break, we will see sunshine, and it will warm up,
:53:29. > :53:34.behind it for Scotland and Northern Ireland, well it's going to be a
:53:34. > :53:37.brighter picture than today. So thank you to everyone who sent us a
:53:37. > :53:40.picture tonight, and as always check out the website as you might
:53:40. > :53:46.find your snap on it. So the moment has arrived, it is
:53:46. > :53:50.now time to recreate one of the deadliest phenomenas seen in
:53:50. > :53:58.weather. It is a fire tornado created by our very own Chris
:53:58. > :54:05.Collins. First and foremost, do not do this
:54:05. > :54:10.at home. I have loads of health and safety people around, and the
:54:10. > :54:13.equipment. We want lots of peak down here a forest fire in here,
:54:13. > :54:18.getting increasing amounts of heat and then creating a bit of wind. I
:54:18. > :54:24.will create a bit of heat and petrol here. I will put it all into
:54:24. > :54:28.here. Then we need this swirling wind. We need a vortex to go in and
:54:28. > :54:38.create the tornado effects. I will put that in here very, very
:54:38. > :54:39.
:54:40. > :54:48.carefully. I'm going to take the petrol out. I will light the petrol
:54:48. > :54:58.getting heat in there. Now I need to create a bit of wind here.
:54:58. > :55:00.
:55:00. > :55:05.Fingers crossed everybody. Is that a fire tornado? Bit too
:55:05. > :55:10.much wind, we have lost it a little bit, that is the fire tornado. I
:55:10. > :55:13.have never seen that done before. Well done, thank you to everybody
:55:13. > :55:17.who has come along to Greenwich here in London tonight. It has been
:55:17. > :55:27.brilliant. And you can hear our favourite summer song playing now,
:55:27. > :55:27.
:55:27. > :55:34.it is the classic In The Summer Time by Mungo injury. We are deep