:00:35. > :00:41.We are coming to you tonight from the imagine jistic Stirling Castle
:00:41. > :00:48.in the heart of Scotland. The UK maybe a small island but that
:00:48. > :00:56.doesn't mean we don't count. Welcome, we are coming live from
:00:56. > :01:02.Stirling Castle in Scotland. Now today the weather was glor cushion
:01:02. > :01:06.but it looked like this last year. A huge storm rageed from May 23rd
:01:06. > :01:11.and lasts for several days. Scotland is the windiest part of
:01:11. > :01:15.Scotland, and the UK is one of the windiest places in Europe. We have
:01:15. > :01:21.come to tonight's show. It is all about wind.
:01:21. > :01:25.What has blown in from here, hello, how are you. A sturdy band of
:01:25. > :01:30.Braveheart, are you fit and well? Good, anyone remember the storms in
:01:30. > :01:34.May. I do. I'm from Falkirk. What happened? My tree fell down in my
:01:34. > :01:38.garden, still there. Two months later! Yeah. You need it cleared up.
:01:38. > :01:44.How about you at the back there? I'm from Stirling, I was doing a
:01:44. > :01:51.walk, and I got home and my fence had blown down. How about you, do
:01:51. > :01:55.you remember May? Yeah. Was it really windy? Yes. Really, really,
:01:55. > :01:59.really windy? Yeah. Good job the hats weren't blown off.
:01:59. > :02:02.The audience looks slightly sun burnt, looking great. We want to
:02:02. > :02:08.hear from you, were you caught out in the storm in May, or maybe the
:02:08. > :02:12.one we all remember back in 1987, or have you experienced a tornado
:02:12. > :02:17.firsthand, we want your stories. E- mail us at the number and I dress
:02:17. > :02:21.below. Tweet us either.
:02:21. > :02:25.Have you actually given as you photograph yet Zander? No, I can't
:02:25. > :02:29.multitask, I'm hosting the show. I haven't got a camera. That is no
:02:29. > :02:33.excuse. We expect one before the end of the show. If you have been
:02:33. > :02:36.watching over the last few week, you will know the drill by now. We
:02:36. > :02:43.are looking to fill this map completely with your weather
:02:43. > :02:47.pictures, where you are, right now. We really want to know the weather
:02:47. > :02:51.where you are sitting right now. It is an important night.
:02:51. > :02:57.I have been handed a card with breaking news as regards with the
:02:57. > :03:01.weather. The highest temperature was in Gravesend in Kent, 30
:03:01. > :03:05.degrees, that is hot. Scattered storms in central and eastern
:03:05. > :03:08.England because of a convergence zone, you remember what that is, it
:03:08. > :03:13.is where we have the clashing of two winds coming from different
:03:13. > :03:17.direction, that happened today. Heavy and thundery showers across
:03:17. > :03:23.Humberside and eastern England, a lot of rainfall. That giving us
:03:23. > :03:28.plenty of scope. Dark cloud clouds, thunder, lightning, any frogs and
:03:28. > :03:32.fish. We have a fish. Michael Fish will be here later. I can't believe
:03:32. > :03:38.I'm saying this, there is only one place we have never heard from in
:03:38. > :03:48.the entire series, that is southend-on-sea, anybody there,
:03:48. > :03:51.
:03:51. > :03:58.send us a photograph. We really want to end to, because tonight is
:03:58. > :04:06.our last show. E mail us on the - e-mail us on the
:04:06. > :04:09.addresses. Coming up on tonight's show: hl -
:04:09. > :04:15.Chris takes on a 100 mile an hour wind.
:04:15. > :04:22.Did a wind make a Chinese sky appear in the sky from nowhere. How
:04:22. > :04:32.the Spanish Armada were stornai surrender by British weather.
:04:32. > :04:32.
:04:33. > :04:36.EastEnders rogue unveils the history of a classic, an umbrella.
:04:36. > :04:39.Last week we asked Bill Michael and John to predict the weather in
:04:39. > :04:42.Stirling tonight who is the champion forecaster. Find out at
:04:43. > :04:47.the end of tonight's show. I'm looking forward to that. All
:04:47. > :04:57.three of the gents will be with us very soon to discuss that storm. If
:04:57. > :04:58.
:04:58. > :05:08.you are wondering what I'm doing here? I have Anam mom ter measuring
:05:08. > :05:14.
:05:14. > :05:17.the - Anna mom metre measuring the wind. We get lots of wind this side
:05:17. > :05:21.of Europe, hang on to your hats ladies and gentlemen, a storm is
:05:21. > :05:27.coming. Our green and pleasant land, rarely
:05:27. > :05:32.too warm, and rarely too cold. The great British weather gives us a
:05:32. > :05:40.temperate climate, which, like us, is a little reserved.
:05:40. > :05:43.Well, not all the time. The trouble s the UK is at the mercy of the
:05:43. > :05:52.Atlantic Ocean. Conditions are deteriorating by the minute.
:05:52. > :05:57.too often massive storm fronts rumble across her waters, and reek
:05:57. > :06:02.havoc across the country. Hearing apart all in its path. That car
:06:02. > :06:05.flew across. The Atlantic brings us severe weather events. Debris and
:06:05. > :06:13.trees scattered over cars and gardens. You would assume it would
:06:13. > :06:19.happen anywhere but here. 43 years ago that assumption met a
:06:19. > :06:22.lethal challenge. On January 13th 1968, a cold front near Bermuda
:06:22. > :06:27.began a journey towards central and southern Scotland. It is a
:06:27. > :06:32.travelled, it developed into a large area of low pressure, and
:06:32. > :06:39.severe gale force winds were on their way.
:06:39. > :06:44.It wasn't until about 3.00am, when just all hell let loose. Former
:06:44. > :06:49.weather presenter, Penny Tranter was six years old when the storm
:06:49. > :06:52.reached the Ayrshire coast, and her home town. It sounded like a train
:06:52. > :06:58.rushing towards us all the time. It was one of the scariest moments of
:06:58. > :07:04.my life. You could feel parts of the house shaking, the wind was so,
:07:04. > :07:08.so strong. The 90 mile-an-hour winds moved into Glasgow, buildings
:07:08. > :07:12.were ripped apart, and 20 people lost their lives. I had never
:07:12. > :07:16.experienced a storm like that, I didn't realise that the weather
:07:16. > :07:24.could be as severe as that, and cause so much damage, and also kill
:07:24. > :07:30.people. But strong gales are the least of our worries. Just last
:07:30. > :07:34.week a tornado swept through this village. She did say tornado.
:07:34. > :07:39.Emergency services were stretched as the tornado ripped through parts
:07:39. > :07:44.of south Birmingham. The UK experiences more tornados than any
:07:44. > :07:48.other country in Europe. All these Ricks started hitting the door, I
:07:48. > :07:53.ran out screaming. Their exact cause remain as mystery, but when
:07:53. > :07:58.severe storms hit the UK, winds can converge beneath the clouds
:07:58. > :08:02.creating a lethal spiral. It was like The Wizard Of Oz. Dorothy is
:08:02. > :08:06.one of the few people in the UK to know what it's like to be right in
:08:06. > :08:14.the eye of one of these unique events. Still in the firing line
:08:14. > :08:17.tonight, the town of Bognor Regis, where yesterday evening a tornado
:08:17. > :08:21.wrought trail of destruction and mile-and-a-half long. Before it
:08:21. > :08:25.struck Dorothy was at home with a friend in her caravan. The next
:08:25. > :08:32.minute something hit the caravan, and we began to rock, the rocking
:08:32. > :08:37.got quicker and quicker, and the noise of chains being stretched,
:08:37. > :08:43.and all of a sudden they must have snapped. I didn't realise we were
:08:43. > :08:50.going up in the air, it seemed like hours, but it must have only been
:08:50. > :08:56.seconds. Trees were torn up in the whirlwind, which lifted one caravan
:08:56. > :09:01.into the air and dumped it on another. Can hear myself screaming,
:09:01. > :09:05.sheer terror. But heavy tornados are nothing next to a gigantic
:09:05. > :09:08.storm front in the Atlantic 24 years ago. Southern Britain is
:09:08. > :09:15.clearing up after the worst night of storms since records began
:09:15. > :09:20.almost 300 years ago. The infamous storm of October 1987 can't be
:09:20. > :09:26.classed officially as ature cane, as it didn't occur in the Tropics.
:09:26. > :09:32.The weather forecasters admit they got it wrong. Its 122 mile an hour
:09:32. > :09:36.gusts were every bit as devastating, millions of trees were flattened.
:09:36. > :09:40.graphic example of the power of the storm. Half a million homes lost
:09:40. > :09:46.electricity. Large areas of London and the south-east had power cuts.
:09:46. > :09:52.22 people lost their lives. emergency services said they had
:09:52. > :09:55.little or no warning. The damage was an estimated �7.3 billion.
:09:55. > :10:00.West End took a battering, some department stores had their shop
:10:00. > :10:07.fronts blown out. The UK had rarely experienced a weather event like
:10:07. > :10:13.this. A ferry blown aground near Folkestone. When we get hit by the
:10:13. > :10:17.next won is entirely up to the Atlantic Ocean.
:10:17. > :10:23.That was 1987, one of the greatest events in British his tree, three
:10:23. > :10:33.men were we eye of the storm, Michael Fish, Bill Giles and John
:10:33. > :10:36.
:10:36. > :10:41.Kettley. Please welcome the legends of weather. I like that, you need
:10:41. > :10:44.to go on the road with that one. Bill, I was reading at the weekend
:10:44. > :10:48.that you finally came clean and said talking about the storm in
:10:48. > :10:52.1987 that the forecast mistake was your's? It was mine, and the
:10:52. > :11:01.computer's, of course, we both got it wrong. I said it would be breezy
:11:01. > :11:04.up the channel, but I let Mike take the blame. Which was it so
:11:04. > :11:07.devastating? Because it came over that part of England, densely
:11:07. > :11:11.populated, it was very wet, the ground was wet, the roots of the
:11:11. > :11:15.trees were up, there were a lot of leaves on the trees. It is like a
:11:15. > :11:18.ship in full sail? It happened at night, so most people were tucked
:11:18. > :11:22.up in bed so, had it happened in the day it would have been a
:11:22. > :11:26.completely different story. Michael, some good has come from
:11:26. > :11:30.it? Lots of things over the years, more observations in the south west
:11:30. > :11:34.approaches, a brand new warning system that is continually being
:11:34. > :11:39.updated. We have a new computer eventually with new software going
:11:39. > :11:46.in t in fact, as it turned out, the next time it happened in 1991, it
:11:46. > :11:49.was absolutely spot on the forecast. It was 1990 he doesn't get it right
:11:49. > :11:56.every time. You have a fantastic afterdinner speaking career on the
:11:56. > :12:01.back of it? Look at the quality of his sweater! John, the trees, I
:12:01. > :12:06.read that 15 million trees were taken down. I didn't count them all
:12:06. > :12:11.myself, they did say 15 million came down. There are more trees in
:12:11. > :12:16.Scotland than England, I have been working it out on the back of a
:12:16. > :12:19.forecast chart on the way up. 15 million across England, represented
:12:19. > :12:22.1%. That says something straight away. Obviously nature does look
:12:22. > :12:28.after itself in the end. It could have been a blessing in disguise,
:12:28. > :12:31.the people who know more about trees than I do, did say it
:12:31. > :12:37.improved the ecology of the woodlands and the forest. The
:12:37. > :12:40.canopy was much less, and new species could go in and improve the
:12:40. > :12:44.environment for the future. These three will be exploring which
:12:44. > :12:47.region in the UK gets the best weather and why. You will find out
:12:47. > :12:50.which one had the most accurate prediction of the weather here in
:12:50. > :12:55.Stirling tonight. I'm looking forward to that Zander.
:12:55. > :12:58.No storms here, I'm glad to say in the Queen Anne Garden, in the
:12:58. > :13:05.middle of Stirling Castle, it is lovely, and tranquil and quiet.
:13:05. > :13:10.Thousands of people were affected 24 years ago by the ferocity of the
:13:10. > :13:17.1987 storm. A baby was born, thank baby is with us with her mum
:13:17. > :13:22.tonight, Andrea and Julyy Pell, welcome. You were going into labour
:13:23. > :13:27.on the night of the storm. You had a traumatic experience. We had to
:13:27. > :13:31.set out at 1.00am as the storm was started. As we got further and
:13:31. > :13:34.further, things started landing on the windscreen, and bits of trees
:13:35. > :13:38.falling in front of us. It got worse and worse, we got frightened.
:13:38. > :13:42.We had to stop because a tree had fallen in front of us and behind us,
:13:42. > :13:46.we were trapped. What did you do? Luckily we were near to a phone box,
:13:46. > :13:50.we phoned the hospital to let them know we were stuck. And they very
:13:50. > :13:55.kindly said they would send an ambulance. That must have reassured
:13:55. > :14:00.you? When did the ambulance arrive. It didn't come. They had to say
:14:00. > :14:05.they couldn't send anyone out, the storm was too ferocious. They said
:14:05. > :14:09.they might send a helicopter. We were relieved. Did it arrive?
:14:09. > :14:16.rang back to say helicopters couldn't fly, far too dangerous and
:14:16. > :14:20.the storm was widespread. All the telecommunications went down, we
:14:20. > :14:24.were lost in the middle of the countryside and no-one to help us.
:14:24. > :14:29.Did you have the baby there? decided to try to get home. It was
:14:29. > :14:34.three miles away. We walked, and we had to climb over all the trees in
:14:34. > :14:40.the way. Great big oak tree, still in full leaf, it is difficult to
:14:40. > :14:50.climb through the branchs and over the trunks. And eventually had the
:14:50. > :14:54.baby Andrea. What is your middle name? It is Gale. What a lovely
:14:54. > :14:57.scene it is in the garden. Let me show you round Stirling Castle.
:14:57. > :15:01.Look at this spectacular view over there. Isn't that absolutely
:15:01. > :15:06.stunning. Right in the distance can you probably see some wind turbines.
:15:06. > :15:10.That is how man uses the wind, but how do we measure it? Let's have an
:15:10. > :15:15.idea, in 1987 the storm technically had winds of hurricane force, but
:15:15. > :15:23.when does a gust become a gale? There is a method, that is tried
:15:23. > :15:28.and trusted, it is being used for centuries. It is invisible, it can
:15:28. > :15:33.be really powerful, and on its day really impressive. What am I
:15:33. > :15:38.talking about? I'm talking about the wind, if you get the right day
:15:38. > :15:44.you can fly a kite! But not today, not a breath of wind, thanks
:15:44. > :15:47.Katherine. Don't worry it will get a lot breezyer later on. Wind was
:15:47. > :15:57.the driving force behind the growth of the British Empire and the
:15:57. > :15:57.
:15:57. > :16:02.sucess of our Navy. Perhaps it is not surprising that Admiral
:16:02. > :16:12.Beaufort, an English naval officer came up with a way of measuring T
:16:12. > :16:12.
:16:12. > :16:19.he designed a 13-teir wind scale, 0-12, hurricane. It allowed sailors
:16:19. > :16:26.to judge the strength of the wind based on hoim sails a ship could
:16:26. > :16:31.put up. Force six, a strong wind, you could carry the top gallant
:16:31. > :16:35.sails. Ever since the Royal Navy adopted the scale, the categories
:16:35. > :16:42.have stayed the same, but descriptions have changed. This is
:16:42. > :16:47.because in 1921, meteorologist, Sir George Simpson, modernised it,
:16:47. > :16:53.measuring on how things on land were effected, using trees and
:16:53. > :16:57.umbrellas even. What does the wind measure today. Let's consult the
:16:57. > :17:03.Beaufort Scale, light wind, wind on face, leaves rustling. All yes,
:17:03. > :17:13.that has a force, they say of 2, that would go at speeds of 4-7
:17:13. > :17:13.
:17:14. > :17:17.miles per hour. What about a bit of modern technology, my anamometer.
:17:17. > :17:21.Quite accurate, not bad at all. This is the sort of wind we get all
:17:21. > :17:28.the time. What is it like to be in a force nine, ten, or even 12.
:17:28. > :17:34.I'm going to find out. Normally used to test the
:17:34. > :17:38.durability of roof tiles, gutters and television aerials, this Baron
:17:38. > :17:44.Windrush tunnel at the British Research Establishment, will test
:17:44. > :17:54.the durability of me. It is man versus machine, Mr Beaufort, give
:17:54. > :18:00.
:18:00. > :18:05.Well, I have to saying, so far this is a breeze. We have moved from
:18:05. > :18:12.force one to five in a matter of minute, it is gentle at best. Let's
:18:12. > :18:22.see what force six has to offer. According to the scale it should be
:18:22. > :18:23.
:18:23. > :18:32.hard to hold up an umbrella. Let's give it a go.
:18:32. > :18:36.Yeah, I would say yeah. Now we're talking windy, we're up
:18:36. > :18:45.to force nine, according to the scale, tiles and chimneys could be
:18:45. > :18:50.thrown off the roof. Watch this! As we move from 50 miles an hour to 60
:18:50. > :18:56.miles an hour, this is the point where a strong gale starts to
:18:56. > :19:03.become a storm. OK, we're up to 11 now, and
:19:03. > :19:10.according to the scale, Wight spread damage to buildings. Wow.
:19:10. > :19:18.It's so strong. We're up to 12 now, you don't often see this in the UK,
:19:18. > :19:25.but we did, back in 1987. Hurricane force. This is really, really
:19:25. > :19:31.frightening. But, if I'm going to experience the full force of the UK
:19:31. > :19:41.wind, I can't stop there. Because on Burns Night, 1990, it was even
:19:41. > :19:50.
:19:50. > :19:54.stronger. This is petrifying, I really can't
:19:54. > :19:59.stand up. Thank goodness I had the warn nas on, because the wind was
:19:59. > :20:02.so strong - harness on, because the wind was so strong it swept me off
:20:02. > :20:07.my feet. My investigation of the Beaufort Scale, very nearly blew me
:20:07. > :20:11.away. How fast was that gust at the end.
:20:11. > :20:17.It was 100 miles an hour. I'm not putting it on, that was frightening.
:20:17. > :20:21.Imagine what that was like. That is off the scale? Believe it or not,
:20:21. > :20:26.that is not the fastest or strongest wind we have had in the
:20:26. > :20:32.UK. The mountain range of Cairngorms 173 miles an hour.
:20:32. > :20:39.was a gust in the Cairngorms? You can imagine up in the mountain
:20:39. > :20:49.ranges, but down, ground level, we had, in Fraserburgh, in Aberdeen,
:20:49. > :20:49.
:20:49. > :20:52.100 miles from here, we had 142 miles an hour. OK, 142mph. Imagine,
:20:52. > :20:58.going shopping, that could cause major damage. You would be foolish
:20:58. > :21:04.to go out in that sort of condition. You thought I was brave going 100
:21:04. > :21:13.miles an hour. Yes. I have arranged something for you. He's a bit
:21:13. > :21:22.nervous, give him encouragement. Not one, but two harnesss, one for
:21:22. > :21:26.me and one for...you! We went 100 miles an hour, that was frightening.
:21:26. > :21:32.We will try to beat 100 miles an hour, with you and me there. You
:21:32. > :21:38.won't be in there, because you will be in real trouble. We need a
:21:38. > :21:43.special device, here t it is the machine of a supersonic hovercraft
:21:43. > :21:48.a powerful one. That is big fan. That will hopefully reach speeds of
:21:48. > :21:53.over 100 miles an hour. You are scared about this? I'm petrified, I
:21:53. > :21:57.have been 100 miles an hour, over scares me. I will do that. Who will
:21:57. > :22:00.be operating it? Carol Kirkwood, I have been in a car with Carol
:22:00. > :22:04.Kirkwood, we will go way over00 miles an hour.
:22:04. > :22:08.For that he will be doing 242 miles an hour, when I get my hands on
:22:08. > :22:11.those controls. Later on in the show, we will be investigating some
:22:11. > :22:16.of the most bizarre weather phenomena that appear throughout
:22:16. > :22:18.the world. But first, we're going to begin right here in the UK. With
:22:18. > :22:23.your brilliant weird weather pictures. So, if we have a quick
:22:24. > :22:30.look at some of them, that one, number one there is from Jane in
:22:30. > :22:34.Chelmsford in Essex. And it is a sun halo. This is a solar halo,
:22:34. > :22:38.formed as sunlight travels through the clouds. When sunlight strikes
:22:38. > :22:44.ice crystals in the cloud, most of the cloud is reflected, producing a
:22:44. > :22:53.completely white halo. Next one is from Chris in Seaford in East
:22:53. > :23:01.Sussex, this one is of propi skr, ular ray, appearing when the path
:23:01. > :23:09.of sunlight is made appear as rays scattering the light. The third one,
:23:09. > :23:13.another gorgeous picture, is from Dave in Ayrshire. That is a fog bow,
:23:13. > :23:23.that occurs when sunlight strikes water droplets in had fog. It is
:23:23. > :23:24.
:23:24. > :23:31.normally colourless, because the water droplets are so tiny they
:23:31. > :23:39.don't shows the droplets as well. The weather has played a pivotal
:23:39. > :23:43.role in history, when Elizabethan England faced dark hours it was the
:23:43. > :23:48.weather that played a part. This is the life a nice long lunch
:23:48. > :23:53.a bit of a siesta, and tapas before I go out for the evening. The
:23:53. > :24:02.Spanish really know how to live. If it hadn't been for our pesky
:24:02. > :24:06.British weather, patatas bravas, could have been our national dish.
:24:06. > :24:11.432 years ago, England faced a pivotal moment in its history. One
:24:11. > :24:21.which we were barely prepared for. But Philip II of Spain had been
:24:21. > :24:26.planning his Armada for three years. It was to be sent to invade England,
:24:26. > :24:32.a Catholic crusade, to overthrow the Protestant Elizabeth I. I'm
:24:32. > :24:42.trying to imagine how big the Spanish Armada is? It is 134 ships,
:24:42. > :24:48.on those ships there are 30,000 men. When they put the ships flank, to
:24:48. > :24:52.flank, they stretched two miles. As soon as the massive fleet was
:24:52. > :24:58.assembled in the port of Lisbon, it was the weather that made the first
:24:58. > :25:02.move. It goes horribly wrong immediately, they were struck by
:25:02. > :25:06.high contrary winds, heavy rains and hail storms before leaving
:25:06. > :25:11.Spanish waters, for three long weeks they are delayed in port,
:25:11. > :25:17.they can't go anywhere. The Armada finally set sail to invade England,
:25:17. > :25:24.and run straight into strong head winds. After two long weeks they
:25:24. > :25:29.made barely any progress and have to dock at Curunia to take on fresh
:25:29. > :25:32.supplies. When they get there, they are hit by a huge south-westerly
:25:32. > :25:38.gale. If I was captain, I would have said this isn't going to
:25:38. > :25:43.happen this summer, let as turn back. Did any say that to the king?
:25:43. > :25:47.Absolutely, that is what the campaign said, he wrote to the wing
:25:47. > :25:52.and said this clearly isn't going to work, Philip was having none of
:25:52. > :25:57.it. Finally the weather broke, and the fleet were ordered to leave the
:25:57. > :26:02.port to execute Philip's massively ambitious plan. His Armada was to
:26:02. > :26:06.sail to France to collect soldiers fighting in the Netherlands, and
:26:06. > :26:11.ferry them across the channel to invade England. The only way of
:26:11. > :26:15.stopping the Spanish would be at sea. Seven weeks after leaving
:26:15. > :26:22.Lisbon, the Armada was spotted off the coast of Cornwall. Two days
:26:23. > :26:27.later, the English engaged. But the opening battles near
:26:27. > :26:33.Plymouth, did little to concern the Spanish. But then the weather
:26:33. > :26:38.turned again. Prevailing south-westerly winds
:26:38. > :26:42.began to blow hard up the English Channel. The Armada were forced to
:26:42. > :26:46.shelter in Calais earlier than planned. The troops they were
:26:46. > :26:50.supposed to collect hadn't arrived. Incredibly, it was this change in
:26:50. > :26:54.weather that enabled Sir Francis Drake and the English fleet to
:26:54. > :26:57.change the course of history. were suddenly sitting ducks,
:26:57. > :27:02.because the English had managed to get the weather gauge, they had
:27:02. > :27:07.managed to get the advantage of the wind, and so pinned the Spanish
:27:07. > :27:14.between them and the shore, and so the English had a plan. They
:27:14. > :27:18.decided to send in fire ships. midnight on July 28th, Drake
:27:18. > :27:24.ordered eight ships, packed with gun powder to be sent drifting on
:27:24. > :27:27.the south westly winds towards the anchored Armada. So the Spanish
:27:27. > :27:31.were terrified, because fire could destroy their whole fleet, guns
:27:31. > :27:35.going off everywhere, ships on fire. They were in, in their panic,
:27:35. > :27:40.cutting at their anchors just to get away, then they are at the
:27:40. > :27:44.mercy of the wind. After 70 days at sea, the Spanish were battered and
:27:44. > :27:48.bruised, they were down, but not out. They decided to move north-
:27:48. > :27:56.east along the coast of England. Short journey, should be OK,
:27:56. > :28:01.because in July, the weather is terrific. It is in Spain!
:28:01. > :28:06.Pursued by the English, the Armada had to abandon all hope of picking
:28:06. > :28:10.up their army. While all this was happening you still have the south
:28:10. > :28:13.westly wind blowing, everybody is slowly drifting out, northward into
:28:14. > :28:18.the North Sea. It is a one way valve, with the wind blowing, you
:28:18. > :28:23.can't get back. All the Spanish could hope to do now was sail
:28:23. > :28:29.around the British Isles, but as they attempted to head south, down
:28:29. > :28:34.the west coast of Ireland, the weather made its final move.
:28:34. > :28:41.A big Atlantic low system, these are the tail ends of tropical
:28:41. > :28:47.storms in the Caribbean. They rumbled their way on the Atlantic
:28:47. > :28:53.above the gulfstream, and they end up as wet, windy, soaking systems
:28:53. > :28:58.here. These massive North Atlantic storms of September 1588 smashed
:28:58. > :29:06.the Armada against the rocky Irish coast. Out of the original 134
:29:06. > :29:12.ships, just 67 ships made it home. 20,000 men had been lost. Of his
:29:13. > :29:19.defeat Philip II declared, I sent the Armada, against men, not God's
:29:19. > :29:24.wind and waves. Or as I would like to put it, don't mess with the
:29:24. > :29:32.British weather. Just shows you, we would all be
:29:32. > :29:36.tuning into Strictly Flamenco, it is good news, we have what we have.
:29:36. > :29:40.It is time to find out what the great British weather map can tell
:29:40. > :29:43.us about the weather. We have had a few problems with our internet.
:29:43. > :29:48.However, it is now sorted, we will get as many pictures on to the map
:29:48. > :29:56.as we can. We have already started there some belters on there. There
:29:56. > :30:01.is growing thunder in the west Midland, that is from Aiden. The
:30:01. > :30:05.rain has already arrived in Yorkshire by the bucketload.
:30:05. > :30:08.Yorkshire we have reports of flash flooding. The opportunity for lots
:30:08. > :30:13.of different kinds of pictures tonight. I have one here from the
:30:13. > :30:20.Isle of Skye, this is from Denise, and it is a beautiful picture.
:30:20. > :30:29.There is goes. Keep them coming in. It is the last show of the series.
:30:29. > :30:35.Au, u. Pressure son to get the map as - Awww. The pressure is on to
:30:35. > :30:39.get the map as full as possible. Later on, Chris and I will subject
:30:39. > :30:45.ourselves to 100 miles an hour solid wind. Stay tuned. Still to
:30:45. > :30:50.come on tonight's show. We investigate the spectacularly
:30:50. > :30:54.weird phenomenon of ball lightning. Don't try that at home. Wind, where
:30:54. > :30:58.it comes from, what it does, and why we get so much of it. And which
:30:58. > :31:02.region gets the best weather in Britain. Bill, Michael and John
:31:02. > :31:07.reveal their number one choice. They have been with us for at least
:31:07. > :31:14.2,000 years, we have so many, there is 75,000 lost each year on the
:31:14. > :31:17.buses and underground alone. I'm talking about the brolly. Larry
:31:17. > :31:22.Lamb charts the history of our most popular rain accesssory.
:31:22. > :31:29.During my time on EastEnders, I felt the heat on more than one
:31:29. > :31:35.occasion. Any last words. experienced a few downpours as well.
:31:35. > :31:39.When I got chance to find out about the history of the umbrella I
:31:39. > :31:45.couldn't say no, especially as I thought I could do some sightseeing
:31:45. > :31:50.along the way. It starts here in the land of the Pharaohs. Cut, we
:31:50. > :31:54.should be in China. In China, all right, well, much
:31:54. > :31:59.nicer than dreary old Albert Square, and fancy the BBC flying me all the
:31:59. > :32:05.way out here to China. Cut. Actually that might not be right.
:32:05. > :32:10.Have we got ancient Greece. Greece, are you kidding.
:32:10. > :32:14.To be honest, the origin of the umbrella is a little bit ambiguous,
:32:14. > :32:19.there is evidence to suggest it originated in the sun drenched east,
:32:19. > :32:24.either in Egypt or China, around 3,400 years ago. No-one really
:32:24. > :32:32.knows for sure. What we do know is the word
:32:32. > :32:36.umbrella comes from the Latin root word "umbra" mean shade or shadow.
:32:36. > :32:40.Earlier versions may have been made from tree branches, they may not
:32:40. > :32:44.look rain proof, but in those days they were used to protect you from
:32:44. > :32:48.the sun rather than the rain. In Ancient Egypt, it was seen as a
:32:48. > :32:53.symbol of religious importance. In ancient Greece, it was commonly
:32:53. > :32:56.used by women as a fashion accesssory because of its
:32:56. > :33:01.decorative nature. The umbrella only became really popular to the
:33:01. > :33:07.western world around the 16th century, especially in rainy Europe.
:33:07. > :33:12.To tell me more, I have enlisted the help of Jeffrey Breeze, an
:33:12. > :33:19.expert in antique umbrellas. How did it become so popular in
:33:19. > :33:23.Britain? They were used as portable sin shoulds in Italy and Greece,
:33:23. > :33:26.and the English girls wanted them as well. In Britain they are more
:33:26. > :33:31.useful as a defence against rain than the sun. But, did you know it
:33:31. > :33:36.was the Chinese who first started waterproofing umbrellas to protect
:33:36. > :33:42.against the rain, and then the rest of the world followed their example.
:33:42. > :33:50.In the same way there was one man who popularised the use of an
:33:50. > :33:55.umbrella amongst men. It was done by John Hanway, a noted traveller
:33:55. > :34:01.and philanthropist, he dared to walk the streets of London to
:34:01. > :34:09.protect his powered wig. He had to put up with the London mob shouting
:34:10. > :34:15.insults, like his stick has petty coats on. How would have carried
:34:15. > :34:25.it? Try it for yourself. Can you hit the pose and get the angle.
:34:25. > :34:25.
:34:25. > :34:31.That came a little too easily, I think. You feel the rain, up it
:34:31. > :34:36.goes and raise it to an elegant angle. And looking good. Thank you
:34:36. > :34:44.very much, very kind of you. In 1852, the brolly advanced
:34:44. > :34:51.further, when Samuel Fox designed the first steel rig designed in the
:34:51. > :34:55.UK. He made them from steel stays, the same as used in corsets. How
:34:55. > :35:01.did things compare from then to today, one thing is for sure, we
:35:01. > :35:05.buy a lot more umbrellas, around 18 million a year, at a cost of �130
:35:05. > :35:10.million. One person who has had more than her fair share, is Her
:35:10. > :35:14.Majesty the Queen, the man keeping her try for 30 years, is
:35:14. > :35:20.manufacturing Nigel Fulton. This is the one we supply the Queen. This
:35:20. > :35:27.is her favourite umbrella. royal umbrella. It has a PVC see-
:35:27. > :35:30.through cover, she can see out and people can see in. Great choice,
:35:30. > :35:35.your majesty. There you have, it carried by everyone from kings and
:35:35. > :35:39.queens to the common man. All of us keen to protect ourselves from
:35:39. > :35:44.whatever the great British weather has to throw at us.
:35:44. > :35:50.Larry is with us here tonight. Larry, welcome.
:35:50. > :35:54.Lovely to have you here. What lovely applause on this beautiful
:35:54. > :35:59.evening. Larry's an actor? So is he, he keeps telling me. Actors have a
:35:59. > :36:05.tough time with weather? We spend a lot of time waiting and waiting and
:36:05. > :36:10.waiting, sit anything caravans, waiting for the weather to change.
:36:10. > :36:15.What about EastEnders? It is a disaster, if you film outside and
:36:15. > :36:19.it rains you have to go inside, and then somebody else has to go
:36:19. > :36:23.outside and you sit and wait for the weather to change. The worst
:36:23. > :36:28.thing was the mastive snow dump, the whole thing went down like a
:36:28. > :36:34.line of domino, they shot stuff without snow, then three inches of
:36:34. > :36:38.snow, everyone clearing it, got the cameras back on and the snow came
:36:38. > :36:42.down again. Your first break in television was a show called
:36:42. > :36:45.Triangle? The first time I was ever in a long-running attempt at a soap
:36:45. > :36:51.opera was Triangle, but I had been knocking around a few hours before
:36:51. > :36:55.that. Tell us about that, it must have been beset by the weather?
:36:55. > :36:59.BBC had a deal to go on a ship in the North Sea, with the BBC,
:36:59. > :37:02.watching the budget, it was at the cheapest time of year, that was
:37:02. > :37:06.because nobody travels because the North Sea is full of storms in
:37:06. > :37:16.October and December. We have a clip from Triangle? All we did was
:37:16. > :37:39.
:37:39. > :37:43.run backwards and forwards through How do you do? Are you a passenger?
:37:43. > :37:50.This is a private area, here, you know, it is the cruise deck,
:37:50. > :37:56.officers and crew only. Get her to stand up, you fool. Well how else
:37:56. > :38:00.can he move her. The glamour! We were talking about the storm of
:38:00. > :38:04.1987, do you have any memories of that? The storm of 1987, I had
:38:04. > :38:09.started work on a film called Buster, Phil Collins walked in and
:38:09. > :38:12.said, do you know what, I lost 80 trees last night. I said, Phil, my
:38:13. > :38:19.heart bleeds, 80 trees is that all. You get a lot of drum sticks out of
:38:19. > :38:22.that. I think he got a life time supply from one storm. Where is
:38:22. > :38:26.your favourite place in Britain weather-wise? From being a kid,
:38:26. > :38:32.going to the Isle of Wight, that is about it, it was about as far south
:38:32. > :38:37.as you can go on the south coast, I think the Isle of Wight. I can
:38:37. > :38:42.remember lovely holidays in Ride, and being in places like Shanklin.
:38:42. > :38:48.I think the Isle of Wight for a beautiful place in the sunshine.
:38:49. > :38:55.Carol are you an EastEnders fan? am and not the only one. Who else?
:38:55. > :38:59.Did you know some of the crew from EastEnders used to phone up where I
:38:59. > :39:03.work, the BBC weather centre to find out what the weather would be
:39:03. > :39:06.like if they were doing a big outside broadcast. Not many people
:39:06. > :39:10.know. That some of the amazing spectacles the weather can create
:39:10. > :39:14.around the world. You don't have to look far in this country to find
:39:14. > :39:18.weird weather. Our resident meteorologists, Tomasz,
:39:18. > :39:22.investigates how a small Scottish town experienced one of nature's
:39:22. > :39:29.most mind boggling phenomena. I have travelled 600 miles north of
:39:30. > :39:33.London to get to the bottom of a weather mystery, that is both
:39:33. > :39:37.terrified and fascinated for many years. The north-east coast of
:39:37. > :39:43.Scotland, rugged, wild, weather beaten and beautiful, nestled on
:39:43. > :39:49.the cliff top overlooking the Moray Frith, is the sleepy fishing
:39:49. > :39:56.village of Port Knockie. Just 1200 people live here. Most earn their
:39:56. > :40:00.living from the sea. There is just one pub, and life is peaceful.
:40:00. > :40:06.is a quiet little village we live here. Fraser Milton is at home with
:40:06. > :40:11.his wife and daughter, it is Sunday, the 23rd January, 2007. It was just
:40:11. > :40:17.a normal day, like any other here. It was overcast, the clouds were
:40:17. > :40:24.quite low, I felt then we were going to have a thunder storm.
:40:24. > :40:30.Marie Watson is on her way to the pub. There was quite a heavy hail
:40:30. > :40:40.storm going on at the time. I was sat in the computer in the other
:40:40. > :40:42.
:40:42. > :40:45.room. Ail lean was in the kitchen. It was 9.00pm. I was walking along
:40:45. > :40:50.here and there was a really loud crack of thunder. I fell to the
:40:50. > :40:57.ground, I don't know if it was the ground was shaking or because it
:40:57. > :41:00.was so loud it frightened me. computer went blank. There was this
:41:00. > :41:07.almighty blue flash and a bank, like something I had never heard
:41:07. > :41:12.before. Then there was like a blue light that came from the field just
:41:12. > :41:20.there. That shot straight through, it was
:41:20. > :41:26.hot, it had burned the back of my neck. The force of power must have
:41:26. > :41:30.been incredible, the socket exploded off the wall. Lightning
:41:30. > :41:34.struck the chimney pot of the next door neighbour, the ceiling
:41:34. > :41:41.collapsed. It was the fear not knowing what it was. The Met Office
:41:41. > :41:47.said this sort of weather event was extremely rare and they would
:41:47. > :41:56.investigate further. So what did happen on that fateful night, could
:41:56. > :42:01.there be a rational explanation to this? It was a suggestion it was St
:42:01. > :42:11.Elmo's Fire. That is a rare natural phenomenon, that presents itself as
:42:11. > :42:13.
:42:13. > :42:18.an every vesent blue light. - efervesent. It was named after a
:42:18. > :42:26.previouser kept preaching after lightning struck the ground on him.
:42:26. > :42:30.Sailors were inspired by his bravery, and took him as their
:42:30. > :42:34.patron saint, believing when St Elmo's Fire gathered around the
:42:34. > :42:41.mast he was there to guide them through. But away from the myth,
:42:41. > :42:45.there is a scientific explanation. During a thunder storm, nitrogen
:42:45. > :42:48.and hydrogen molecules are ripped apart by the high-voltage
:42:49. > :42:54.conditions, creating something called plasma, the fourth state of
:42:54. > :43:01.matter, neither a gas, liquid or solid. The intense electric field
:43:02. > :43:08.present during thunderstorms, over 1,000 volts per centimeter, caused
:43:08. > :43:18.the hydrogen andate tro begin molecules to light up with a neon
:43:18. > :43:18.
:43:18. > :43:23.light. Slightly curving obts will attract the fire. - objects will
:43:24. > :43:27.attract the fire. It is a bigger version of one of these, plasma
:43:27. > :43:34.ball. These days it is often witnessed when using a more modern
:43:34. > :43:39.mode of transport. As this amateur footage demonstrates. Today's
:43:39. > :43:42.equivalent of the ship's mast are the wings or front of a passenger
:43:42. > :43:47.jet. Sometimes when we are flying we fly through cloud and get static
:43:47. > :43:52.charge on the aircraft, that normally leaks away harmlessly, if
:43:52. > :43:55.we get large static charge, we start seeing the small lightning
:43:55. > :43:59.strikes running across the windscreen, they are blue in colour,
:43:59. > :44:04.and they dance around at random, they can be one or two or intense.
:44:04. > :44:10.The whole windscreen is the light being lit up continuously with the
:44:10. > :44:15.small lightning strikes arking across the wint screen. This
:44:15. > :44:19.phenomenon - the windscreen. This phenomenon occurring on dry land is
:44:19. > :44:24.incredibly unlikely. After investigating the Met Office in
:44:24. > :44:28.Aberdeen concluded the sheer intensity of the electrical storm
:44:28. > :44:32.in January 2007 could have included the presence of the amazing St
:44:33. > :44:42.Elmo's Fire. So that happened right here in
:44:43. > :44:45.
:44:45. > :44:48.Scotland. That is not all. Joining me is Marty Johnson. We talk about
:44:48. > :44:52.weather phenomena, everybody talk about a rainbow? Everyone everyone
:44:52. > :44:59.has seen them and they are the most common. What you have, there is
:44:59. > :45:02.some pictures. You have got rain dops - rain drops in front of you,
:45:02. > :45:09.the sn behind it, the sun goes into the rain drops and bounces off the
:45:09. > :45:14.back, as it comes through, it splits, it is auld refraction, and
:45:14. > :45:18.comes out as several colours. What you see in is all the rain drops
:45:18. > :45:22.creating a single little dot in the rainbow, that means that every rain
:45:22. > :45:27.do you is different. Your rainbow is different to mine. If you shut
:45:27. > :45:31.one eye, and open the other, you have different rainbows for
:45:31. > :45:38.different eyes. We have our own different rainbows? That is why you
:45:38. > :45:44.can never get to the end of it. Carol says she has seen a full
:45:44. > :45:48.rainbow from a plane is that possnbl Yes. You get the - Is that
:45:48. > :45:52.possible? Yes. You get a double rain bou. You have
:45:52. > :45:58.a primary and secondary. All that happens there is the light is
:45:58. > :46:00.bouncing inside the rain drops twice coming out at a different
:46:01. > :46:05.angle. The secondary one is back to front.
:46:05. > :46:11.What I have always wanted to know is about mirage, I have seen them
:46:11. > :46:15.in the movies, guys scrambling across the desert and he see as
:46:15. > :46:20.swimming pool, and dives in and it is sand. We have all seen them,
:46:20. > :46:24.when you go across a hill on a hot day and looks like there is water
:46:24. > :46:28.on the road, that is a mirage, what is happening is the light from the
:46:28. > :46:32.sky is coming down, hitting the very hot air just above the road
:46:32. > :46:37.surface. That makes it bend. Refraction again, as it bends, it
:46:37. > :46:42.comes down, it doesn't hit the road but your eyes. You are seeing a
:46:42. > :46:46.reflection of the sky. This could explain what I'm going to show you
:46:46. > :46:51.next. This is absolutely extraordinary, this happened in
:46:51. > :46:55.east China on June 11th 2011. Eyewitnesses reported on Chinese
:46:55. > :47:00.news that a City appeared above the river. A city that isn't there
:47:00. > :47:04.appeared. It is a mirage, it is effectively the same thing. But the
:47:04. > :47:08.other way up. What you have is layers of air in the atmosphere
:47:08. > :47:12.which are of different temperatures. Very calm day, and what happens is
:47:13. > :47:18.the light from the city, a distant city is being bent by the
:47:18. > :47:21.atmosphere, and bounced back down to you, so that you are seeing a
:47:21. > :47:25.reflection off the surface up there of another city. It is an
:47:25. > :47:32.incredible thing, very unlikely to see that. Another thing that Zander
:47:32. > :47:36.has been petrified about all day, ball lightning, calm him? Ball
:47:36. > :47:40.lightning is an incredibly rare weather phenomena. We think it is
:47:40. > :47:47.caused by strong lightning storms. This is an example filmed down
:47:47. > :47:52.under. What happens is you get these, we think, balls of plasma
:47:52. > :47:57.created by the electrical discharge. For reasons science can't explain,
:47:57. > :48:00.the ball howevers around and floats around, sometimes it disappear,
:48:00. > :48:08.sometimes it explodes with a big shower of sparks, we can't explain
:48:08. > :48:10.it. It is like a UFO? A lot of UFO sightings may be ball lightning.
:48:10. > :48:20.Absolutely brilliant. Keep your eyes to the skies and you
:48:20. > :48:22.
:48:22. > :48:27.might see that yourself. Over to my my Bute of Carol.
:48:27. > :48:31.You're not so bad yourself despite what everyone else says. Thanks for
:48:31. > :48:35.your e-mails. I have one here talking about ball lightning from
:48:35. > :48:39.Paul from Barnsley, he tells us, when he was a child in Barnsley,
:48:39. > :48:45.they had a big storm, suddenly they saw a ball of white shimering light,
:48:45. > :48:49.there was a hissing sound, we thought it was a UFO, the neighbour
:48:49. > :48:55.said it was a ball lighten, it was the size of a beach ball. Elaine
:48:55. > :49:00.has a great story, she says she was at work three quarters of a mile
:49:00. > :49:05.from the River Clyde in Scotland. During the last storm a squid fell
:49:05. > :49:10.out of the tree. It would have been better if it was a quid. Janet
:49:10. > :49:18.remembers the 1987 storm, she says she knew nothing was weird when all
:49:18. > :49:23.our cats climbed on to her bed in the middle of the night. Animals
:49:23. > :49:27.are savvy. Shirley remembers the 1987 storm, she lived down a lane
:49:27. > :49:31.in Kent, they saw countless flashes in the sky, and assumed it was
:49:31. > :49:37.lightning all round, when she woke up next morning and trees were
:49:37. > :49:42.blocking every which way, she fed the men folk sasauges, cooked on a
:49:42. > :49:50.bash kue. Some amazing stories there showing what the wind can do
:49:50. > :49:53.at its best. Why does the UK get so much of it?
:49:53. > :50:01.It may not always feel like it, but the UK is one of the windiest
:50:01. > :50:06.countries in the whole of Europe. The average wind speed here, rarely
:50:06. > :50:14.dips below 12 miles an hour. Our nearest neighbour, France, can only
:50:14. > :50:19.muster a sluggish seven. And for me, the breezy British Isles has become
:50:19. > :50:25.a bit of an occupational hazard. Good morning, still very windy here
:50:25. > :50:29.in Plymouth. Heavy snow and also strong winds. You but what is this
:50:29. > :50:34.unstoppable force, gentle enough to dry our washing, but fierce enough
:50:34. > :50:38.to blow us off our feet. Put simply, it is what we feel as the air in
:50:38. > :50:41.our atmosphere moves around areas of high and low pressure. The
:50:41. > :50:46.bigger the pressure difference, the faster the air will move, and the
:50:46. > :50:50.stronger the winds will be. And it is this movement of air that
:50:50. > :50:53.is critical to the life of our planet.
:50:53. > :50:59.Transporting weather systems around the world, and eroding and shaping
:50:59. > :51:04.our landscape. When wind passes over land, it
:51:04. > :51:11.weakens as it strikes obstacles like trees, buildings and hills.
:51:11. > :51:20.The shementered eastern - the sheltered eastern and central parts
:51:20. > :51:25.of UK has wind of almost 9MPH, in Scotland it blows twice as hard. In
:51:25. > :51:30.1986 the Cairngorms were battered by the UK's highest ever gust, a
:51:30. > :51:32.staggering 173 miles an hour. Our predominant winds are the mild wet
:51:32. > :51:38.westerlies, that is what is bringing the fog in. That is not
:51:38. > :51:43.the only wind we get. Our easterly winds have travelled thousands of
:51:43. > :51:47.miles across Eastern Europe, and transport some dryer conditions to
:51:47. > :51:52.the UK. But they have to compete against westerly winds that have
:51:52. > :51:57.moved across large masses of sea. Accumulating moisture, ready to
:51:57. > :52:01.soak us when they hit our shores. Sor southerly winds act as a
:52:01. > :52:06.vehicle for warm air, from places like North Africa and the
:52:06. > :52:11.Mediterranean. They can be confronted by northerly winds, that
:52:11. > :52:14.bring us freezing temperatures from the Arctic. Thanks to this amazing
:52:14. > :52:20.variation, knowing which way the wind will blow, will tell us more
:52:20. > :52:25.about the wind we are likely to get than anything else we can measure.
:52:25. > :52:31.Tonight we are joined by three of the sharpest minds in meteorology,
:52:31. > :52:35.they are Bill Giles, Michael Fish and John Kettley. Welcome back.
:52:35. > :52:38.We have set you a couple of tasks tonight. The first one was we
:52:38. > :52:47.wanted to know in your personal opinion which region in the UK gets
:52:47. > :52:51.the best weather and why. Mine is north Cornwall. Because you
:52:51. > :53:00.get some lovely weather if the weather is bad on the north coast,
:53:00. > :53:05.you can very quickly get to the south coast. Michael? I would go to
:53:05. > :53:08.the land of my birth, Eastbourne, bueltfully sheltered from Beachy
:53:09. > :53:14.Head. And what's more, at my time in life,
:53:14. > :53:21.there is some very nice comfortable OAP homes.
:53:21. > :53:27.It is John? There isn't room to put it down here. Swanage and the
:53:27. > :53:35.Jurassic coast is lovely. I would go back to my ancestoral home, way
:53:35. > :53:43.before Yorkshire, I reckon Shropshire, shelter from the hills.
:53:43. > :53:46.Second task, we take challenge. Earlier on Carol took a reading of
:53:46. > :53:51.the weather using our great British weather station. I have an envelope
:53:51. > :53:55.containing your predictions, I will read them out. Bill said you would
:53:55. > :54:01.put money on it being dry on air strikes temperature 15 degrees.
:54:01. > :54:06.the shade. We can expect a westerly wind at 10MPH with gusts of up to
:54:06. > :54:13.20. Humid with temperatures of 19 degrees you said. A good deal of
:54:13. > :54:18.cloud, outbreaks of rain. John Kettley, you went with temperature
:54:18. > :54:23.18 degrees, light to moderate easterly winds, 10-13 miles an hour,
:54:23. > :54:27.cloudy with showery bust bursts of rain. Four factors were taken into
:54:27. > :54:31.account, wind direction, wind speed, temperature, and presiptation.
:54:31. > :54:35.Based on that, Michael has won by just one degree in temperature
:54:35. > :54:40.because he said it would be 19 degrees, John Kettley close with 18,
:54:40. > :54:45.Bill was the only one who said it would be dry, you failed with wind
:54:45. > :54:55.speed, direction and temperatures. 22 degrees, current wind direction
:54:55. > :54:56.
:54:56. > :55:01.variable, north-east to south-east presiptation, zero present.
:55:01. > :55:04.Now it is time toe reveal what the weather is like across - time to
:55:04. > :55:07.reveal what the weather is like across the country. For the very
:55:07. > :55:14.last time it is the live weather map.
:55:14. > :55:18.I tell you what, we have budding Fishs and Kettleys across the UK.
:55:18. > :55:22.We have been hearing about the weather today. Thank you very much
:55:22. > :55:27.everybody in Southend on sea, we are now on the map. Also I can tell
:55:27. > :55:33.you, we have, at long last, a picture of the Outer Hebrides from
:55:33. > :55:37.Celia, and I can tell you it is absolutely chucking it down in
:55:37. > :55:42.Peterborough, flash floods. Here in Stirling it is gorgeous,
:55:42. > :55:47.but we have it coming up the Aberdeenshire coast. You have
:55:48. > :55:52.things to do Chris. Chris is about to join Zander and subject
:55:52. > :55:54.themselves to a 100 mph wall of wind. But before we join them, a
:55:54. > :56:00.huge thank you to everybody who sent in photographs tonight. And
:56:00. > :56:03.during all our other shows. You have helped make this a brilliant
:56:03. > :56:07.TV first. The Met Office has said there has never been so much
:56:07. > :56:09.information collated by so many people about the weather on
:56:09. > :56:14.television. We have also loved hearing your stories too. Don't
:56:14. > :56:17.forget if you head to our website for loads of useful facts and tips
:56:17. > :56:23.to carry on with the weather watching. Now the time has come,
:56:23. > :56:30.Chris and Zander are going to be subjected to 100 miles per hour of
:56:30. > :56:35.solid wind. We saw Chris earlier on today standing up in just gusts of
:56:35. > :56:40.wind of 100 miles an hour. How are you feeling boys? We are doing
:56:40. > :56:44.already. We are prepared for the environment, warm hats and scaraves.
:56:44. > :56:49.We are recreating a typical day in Fraserburgh. We are kitting
:56:49. > :56:55.ourselves out. That will please everybody in Fraserburgh for that.
:56:55. > :57:00.I tik your tam-o'-shanters. We are trying for over 100 miles an hour.
:57:00. > :57:10.We have been told it could be 124 miles an hour, measured earlier
:57:10. > :57:33.
:57:33. > :57:39.today. Good luck. Help me count the We got there, 126 miles an hour.
:57:39. > :57:43.Well done. That is amazing. Your cheeks were flapping. Your scaraves,
:57:43. > :57:50.your hats. You are not painting a lovely picture of us, are you.
:57:50. > :57:55.did it feel, did you feel you could stand up? Quite scary. Could you
:57:55. > :57:59.stand up? We have both rather large rears for low centre of gravity.
:57:59. > :58:02.Low slung bottoms. Well done boys, and a huge thank you to everyone
:58:02. > :58:10.who has watched the show in the last month. We have had fantastic
:58:10. > :58:15.time making it. We hope you enjoyed making it. All around the country,