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This time on Weather World we are in Northern Ireland airside at Belfast | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
International Airport. We are going behind the scenes to find out what | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
it takes to keep these planes flying and you and I safe, whatever the | :00:19. | :00:27. | |
weather. Also on Weather World, devastation | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
and deadly floods in south America. But some dramatic escapes too after | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
months of heavy rain leave towns under water. And mud. As landslides | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
kill hundreds. Weather bomb, the storm so strong they hold a unique | :00:44. | :00:51. | |
place in weather science. And have taken California from drought to | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
deluge with the ground giving way. And extreme heat, wild fires as | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
parts of Australia endure their hottest summer. | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
Plus, you have some history there. Taking the temperature, I will be | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
opening the archives of one of the world's longest running weather | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
observations and watching how it is still being done today. I will be | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
taking a trip back to my own family history and aviation's past to see | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
how some of today's technology was born. | :01:20. | :01:35. | |
Welcome to Weather Worm at Belfast International Airport. | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
-- weather World. 13 miles north-west of the city of Belfast | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
this site was first established as a military base in the First World | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
War. Since then, it's grown to become the busiest airport in | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
Northern Ireland with over five million passengers travelling | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
through it last year. The airport serves other UK and European | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
destinations, plus there are flights to the USA. | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
Weather and airports, so much can go wrong, can't it? It's an interesting | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
relationship, thunder storms, fog, wind, snow, someone that knows all | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
about those weather challenge is Michael, the general manager of air | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
traffic control here. Hello, Michael. Hi. Is there a day when you | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
are not thinking about the weather? No, every day, every day controllers | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
come into work they're obviously thinking about the weather. The | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
surface wind is very important in terms of deciding what's the | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
direction of runway for take-off and landing. Interested in the cloud, | :02:29. | :02:39. | |
the type of precipitation. We are interested in knowing all we need | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
to. There is something specific about the airport here at Belfast | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
which is about the weather and increases your flexibility. Yeah, we | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
are one of the only remaining UK airports that still operates across | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
runway. It faces east-west. We have a cross runway which sits at right | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
angles, from the main runway. It's orientated more or less north-south. | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
During the autumn when we get low pressures coming across the conflict | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
we get strong southerly gales and a pilot's preference is is to land | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
into wind, when the cross wind gets roughly around 30 knots, the pilots | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
will opt to take the other runway for a safer approach and take-off. | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
Weather is so important and Sarah's in the control tower now to take a | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
look at how they get the very latest weather information here. | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
This is the main weather system used here in the air traffic control | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
centre. All the numbers and figures on the screen correspondent to | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
continuous weather data that's collected. We record things like | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
wind direction and speed, visibility, any significant weather | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
around as well as importantly cloud amounts and heights too. Every half | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
an hour a report is issued. That will help pilots make operational | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
decisions about whether it is safe to land or whether they might need | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
to divert to another airport. When the weather gets rough, the landings | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
get tough. This plane struggles to maintain a steady approach to | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
Manchester Airport in February, in the UK's fourth named storm of the | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
season. Winds of up to 100mph hit the UK as Storm Doris blows in. As | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
you see the foam hitting me from the sea that it definitely has | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
materialised, gusts here are so powerful I can't even face in the | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
direction of the wind is coming from. | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
As reporters tried to remain upright, some trees failed. A lucky | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
escape here for a driving instructor. | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
But the storm did claim the life of a woman hit by falling debris and it | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
wasn't just the wind doing the damage. There was heavy snow too | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
here in Scotland. Storm Doris was an area of low pressure that underwent | :04:53. | :05:01. | |
explosive genesis so strengthening quickly. Storms like this have | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
become known as weather bombs. Life-threatening storm... This was | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
another. A major snow storm hits the north-east USA in March bringing to | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
an abrupt end what had been a mild start to the year. And for the first | :05:17. | :05:24. | |
time in 33 years in New York, March was colder than February. There is | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
cold and there is frozen solid. This house became encased in ice | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
after strong winds blew water from lake Ontario over it that froze. | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
Amazingly when the ice melted these pictures show the house emerging | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
virtually unscathed. Europe's coldest winter month was | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
January. With the unusual sight of snow on Greek island beaches. But | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
the bitterly cold weather brought fresh misery for migrants at camps | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
such as these in the Balkans. Then disaster in Italy. A mountain hotel | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
buried by an avalanche, 29 people are killed but amazingly, some | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
survive, rescued more than two days later. Oh my God! | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
Tornado season in the USA peaks in spring but this is February in | :06:16. | :06:24. | |
Louisiana. And New Olleans is hit with its strongest tornado on record | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
but worst came even earlier. A January outbreak of tornado sweeps | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
through south-eastern states leaving total devastation and 20 dead. More | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
than died in tornados in the USA in the whole of last year. | :06:38. | :06:47. | |
It's a beautiful day here at Belfast International Airport today but | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
visibility is not always this good. In fact, the airport can be prone to | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
seeing dense fog. Michael is going to join me now and can you explain | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
just how do you land a plane when you can't see the runway? Certainly. | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
We have an instrument landing system at the airport, part of is system is | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
the glide path t sends a signal to the pilot and tells him if he is too | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
high or too low as he makes the approach. We have another signal at | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
the other end of the runway, the localiser, and it tells the pilot if | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
he is left or right of centre line. The combination of the two, left | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
right, up, down, safety guides the aircraft to land. Wonderful. We have | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
had a look at what it looks like from the ground, I would love to see | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
is how this instrument landing system works from up in the skies. | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
Shall we take a look? Absolutely, let's go. | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
Michael, we are up in the air. Can you explain to us a little about how | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
this instrument landing system, the ILS works from the pilot's | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
perspective up here? Absolutely. You can see the pilot gets the distance | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
from touchdown. It's displayed at all times in the cockpit. So he | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
knows how far he is from touchdown. You can see from the ILS signal at | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
the moment the needle is to the left. That means the aircraft needs | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
to fly left to get on track. I suppose in poor visibility | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
conditions, in thick fog or blowing snow the pilot would rely upon this | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
instrument? Absolutely. And the system at alter Grove allows the | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
aircraft to auto land in those sort of conditions. We took to the skies | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
thanks to airambulance Northern Ireland, but every commercial | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
airline has an instrument landing system on board, so, no matter where | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
in the world you make your landing, the guidance given to your pilot | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
will be exactly the same. It takes an awful lot of power to power the | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
ILS, all this kit, and also an entire airport but you might be | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
surprised to hear where that power comes from. Let's head down to Nick | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
on the ground to explain more. In fact, Sarah, Belfast Article | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
Airport requires 1. 8 megawatts of electricity every day. And they get | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
it right here, right next to the airport from tens of thousands of | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
solar panels and on a sunny day this gives the aerp all the power it | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
needs. Over here f you listen carefully, that whiny sound is the | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
power being made, because even though it's cloudy there is still | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
solar energy coming through converted through this inverter. | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
Alan is the operations manager here at the airport. How important is | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
this farm, and has it become to the airport? It's been a great success | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
for us. The first nine months it produced 27% of the energy that we | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
use on airport. It still is producing on a day like this, on a | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
really good day absolutely everything on airport from radars to | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
instrument landing systems, security systems, baggage systems, everything | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
on airport is running on it. It is still producing excess for the grid. | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
We can see what it's been doing for the airport today through this | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
display unit here. The sun has come out occasionally today. Yes, this | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
shows the last 24 hours of production with it. Last night | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
around sundown it was still producing, then it dropped off | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
through the night period. From dawn, it's gone up. We had a rainy period | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
here this morning. It still is producing 250, 500 kilowatts. At | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
peak time when the sun has come out it's producing 1500. So it's working | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
very well. Even for Northern Ireland. I wish you many more blue | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
sky days. Thank you very much. BBC weather watchers know cloudy | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
days have their pluses too. And they just got a whole lot more | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
interesting thanks to the release in March of an updated cloud at lass | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
from the world meet logical organisation. It features newly | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
classified cloud formations such as these as seen in Dorset. | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
And these dramatic undulating clouds pictured here in the Peak District. | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
Still to come on Weather World: Michael, you have some history | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
there. Temperature tradition, more than 200 years of weather observing | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
in Ireland. I will go back to the beginning and see how it is still | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
being done today. We have had a look at modern | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
aviation here at Belfast International Airport. But now I am | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
stepping back in time to learn a little bit more about the history | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
and the relationship between aviation and the weather. I have a | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
personal reason for being here today. We will look at that later | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
on. For now, let's head inside and meet our guide Ernie from the Ulster | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
Aviation Society. Hi there, Ernie. Hi, Sarah, it's a pleasure to | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
welcome you. Before the introduction of satellite and radar data, | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
aircraft played a vital role in forecasting. Can you tell us more | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
about that. Yes, indeed, what it involved was the aircraft of the | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
weather flights going out over the Atlantic primarily from where most | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
of our weather systems come, and taking a range of observations and | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
different altitudes, observations of temperature, humidity, pressure and | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
so on. It would have involved in some cases flights of up to eight or | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
nine hours in length. Every so often the data that was being collected | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
would be signalled back to Aldergrove. And from Aldergrove it | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
would be sent to the fraing office. Why don't I interviews you to | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
Malcolm, a colleague who was a Met observer on the weather squadron at | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
Aldergrove in the post-war period. That would be fantastic. | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
Malcolm, you were Met Observer on those weather flights. What was it | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
like? A very interesting period in my life doing National Service in | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
the force. We initially had very old aircraft, the Halifax, we used to be | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
directed by the weather forecasts, we would fly for a day into weather | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
worst weather wasn't find out what was really happening. As we tended | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
to fly the majority of the flights fairly low down it could be very | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
bumpy, very wet at the front because the aircraft used to leak a bit, | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
being old. You could have lightning and it was a very difficult exercise | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
for pilots and navigators to get there and back. At the poor radio | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
waves and everything we would often be a bit of truck. It was arduous | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
for the whole crew. Bernie, I mentioned earlier that I had a | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
personal link to this place. My grandfather was an aeronautical | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
engineer in Northern Ireland for many years. Can you tell me more | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
about that? I really wanted to show you this aircraft, the short Sherpa, | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
a unique aircraft. It was built in 1953 to test the properties of a | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
novel type of wing your grandfather designed. The revolutionary new | :13:58. | :14:07. | |
aircraft goes for its trials. The chief designer, David Keith Lucas, | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
planned the Sherpa on his drawing board and no test pilot Tom Brook | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
Smith looks set to continue. We are delighted it is part of the | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
Ulster aviation collection because it is a unique research aircraft and | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
your grandfather was responsible for that. | :14:25. | :14:26. | |
Thank you so much for showing me this little bit of my family | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
history. For now we will be leaving these | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
historic aircraft, later we're heading back to Belfast | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
International Airport for more on modern day aviation. | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
Now to events in southern hemisphere summer and this from Peru. If ever | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
you need proof of the force of flood water it is here. Look how the | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
driver of this truck manages to get out just it is swept away. | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
And again as this hotel collapses into a flooded river. Dozens of | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
people had died in Peru since the start of the year. Here is another | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
lucky escape as a mudslide churns up the debris of what was once | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
someone's home, a woman emerges. Slowly she is able to find her feet | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
and step to safety. The rain has been blamed on an unusually warm sea | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
water off the coast of Peru, but not just Peru has suffered. | :15:24. | :15:25. | |
Disaster in Colombia, torrential rains is a mudslide into town, | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
submerging homes, businesses and people. The death toll reaches into | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
the hundreds. Some in the area have blamed climate change for the | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
extreme rain, others say deforestation means are more likely. | :15:42. | :15:49. | |
Further south in Chile in January, drought, he took, strong winds and | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
then fire. This town was destroyed by wildfires said to be the worst in | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
the modern history of the country. Thousands of homes are burned to the | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
ground. Summer fires also broke out in Australia, nearly 100 at one | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
stage in February in New South Wales as record high temperatures produce | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
catastrophic fire danger. In March the weather took a dramatic | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
turn as Cyclone Debbie hit Queens land and then New South Wales. | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
Floods follow and after its hottest summer, Sydney has its wettest | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
margin 20 years. Viewed from helicopter, something | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
quite astonishing is unfolding California in February. Car | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
swallowing sinkholes are appearing. There goes another. It is not just | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
cars disappearing, the ground is literally giving way as the state | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
undergoes a remarkable transformation from drought with a | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
succession of storms and weather bombs bringing flooding rain. | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
There is so much water that the overflow from this town is needed | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
for the first time in 50 years but it fails, leading to evacuation with | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
fears of unrestrained floodwater being sent downstream. | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
In a world of changing climate and weather, some things change very | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
little. Like this weather ritual which has been happening for over | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
200 years. At 9am every day, Shane Kelly takes | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
weather observations at the Armagh Observatory 40 miles south-west of | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
Belfast. His work and that of those before him has made this one of the | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
longest-running series of manual weather observations in the world. | :17:31. | :17:41. | |
Shane, you have been doing this for 18 years and the temperature record | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
goes back over 200 years. Do you feel the weight of responsibility of | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
keeping this going? It has been unbroken for 200 years, I don't want | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
to be the one who breaks that are bad becomes infamous. It is a unique | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
empirical record, it is a very useful record in research, schools, | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
education for the general public. Lots of weather stations are | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
automated, what is the benefit of having you doing this every day? We | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
had an automatic weather stations several years back, and experimental | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
one. It broke down, sometimes you lost records. We did not lose any on | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
the manual side. On the automatic station you were sometimes recording | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
wind speeds of 417 mph, you can see how an automatic station can get it | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
wrong. Do you think of the day when this might become automatic and you | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
will not be required to do this any more? I think it will become | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
automatic but I think the manual station will run side by side as | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
long as there is a will for people to get up in the morning and take | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
readings and do it every morning and keep the unbroken record. | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
These are those first records, safely stored at the observatory. | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
Its director Michael Burton is about to show me how it all began. | :19:02. | :19:10. | |
You have some history? I certainly have, these are the first reading | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
software that the Armagh Observatory. Let's look at that | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
first one. We have the logbook and we have this page at the top, these | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
were the very first measurements made. It has held up quite well? | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
Indeed. What is it telling us? The date, the first measurement is the | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
27th of December 17 94. We are measuring the temperature inside and | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
outside, two thermometers, one inside the observatory and one | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
outside in the grounds, and the barometer, the air pressure. Things | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
get more detailed over time? Notes are made about significant weather | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
event. If we can call the 19th-century the more recent past, | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
what happened there? 1839, the time of Bromley Robertson, the director | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
here for 59 years. He is recording notes, the comment says a tremendous | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
gale in the night. There was a fantastic storm that night, it got | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
Robertson thinking about how one quantifies the strength of the wind | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
and a few years later he came up with the design of what we call the | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
anemometer, which is now use the world over to measure the wind | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
speed. One of his first models this year? On the roof of the observatory | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
building, you can go and see it. I have an amateur weather station on | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
my back garden and it has this on it, and to think it all started here | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
in Armagh? This is the cap anemometer, it comes from 1870 but | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
the very basic design is how we measure wind speed the world over. | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
It say something about design that it has | :20:54. | :21:06. | |
lasted the test of time? A simple design, four club spinning in the | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
wind, you can measure the wind speed and that is how we know wind speeds | :21:10. | :21:11. | |
around the world. It has been fascinating seeing the weather | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
history at the Armagh Observatory, thank you for showing us around. | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
We are back at Belfast International Airport, so far we have looks at how | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
weather is pivotal to operations here and had seen some of the | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
systems in place to deal with changeable weather conditions. I | :21:24. | :21:25. | |
will put some about into practice and with the help of Michael we will | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
use the traffic control simulator to try to safely land a plane. Imagine | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
it is a foggy day at Belfast, we have two inbound easyJets, one to | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
the north and one to the south, we will factor them and establish them | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
at ten miles, once they are safely established under the instrument | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
landing system we can transfer and we -- can pretend we are | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
transferring them to the tower. Easy for 64, descent altitude 3000 feet. | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
We record the level on the strip and we watch the radar. You can see the | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
aircraft is starting to descend. It looks like this aircraft has | :22:08. | :22:21. | |
safely intercepted the instrument landing system and it is on the | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
approach to the runway? The aircraft is now approaching two miles from | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
touchdown, he has been safely established. It is probably on a | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
full auto land because it would be in fog and the pilots will be | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
letting the aircraft land. That was really well done as a first attempt | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
at vectoring and aircraft. It descended at nine miles, that is | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
what we expected. Weldon, a very good first attempt. My first | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
aircraft, safely landed. Fantastic. Now from a busy skies to | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
roads, and these iconic London cabs are far from where you would | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
normally expect to see them. This is the Arctic Circle, they are being | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
tested as they get a 21st-century makeover with a virtually silent | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
electric engine cutting emissions. It has been awhile since London has | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
seen snow like this but the manufacturers hope to sell the cabs | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
in other polluted cities like Moscow, which gets a bit colder in | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
winter. Finally, we have had automobiles, | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
planes and now trains. This is what happens when you are waiting at a | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
station after a snowstorm but the first train is nonstop. In March, | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
New York commuters get a second helping of snow, but this one was | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
not in the forecast! That is it for Weather World this | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
time from Northern Ireland. We will be back later in the year. | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
Until then, keep checking the forecast. | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
Let's look at that first reading. Where did I put it?! We have lost | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
the first reading from 1794. From now onwards the first readings will | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
be from 1795. What is going on with my hair? What is it doing? She is so | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
polite, isn't she?! | :24:16. | :24:19. |