Deep Dive 05/09/2023 - Flooding in the Med and heatwave UK - Met Office Weather Forecast 

Love the deep dive. After a lifetime of watching the TV weather forecast I'm finally getting a better understanding of what causes and effects our weather

I watched two workman wearing full boiler suits working for hours on scaffolding in the blazing heat. They had my full admiration.

19:23 "Over in the West, there's a lot of water...it's called the Atlantic" 😆 That really tickled me with Alex injecting a good dollop of sarcasm! Another great Deep Dive, love tuning in.

Deep dive is a must view every week now. I've always enjoyed weather forecasts but the presentation of the deep dive is on a whole new, level. Absolutely enthralling, thank you.

Brilliant do appreciate the work that goes into educating us non met heads! Thank you.

Best presenter on the channel. Greetings from south-east Poland!

I'm absolutely obsessed with weather, always have been. At 73 I've seen quite a lot of it and I did ask for longer and better forecasts on the BBC but hey ho, and never watch it now anyway! So seeing Met Office my old neighbour before I moved to Argyll produce such great Deep Dives and forecasts is marvellous. One thing I'd like to see is an expansion of the Scotoand forecasts because we don't get a mention and they're too short! Thanks to all of you and especially young Jonathan who is a joy to watch. Wouldn't it be nice to know more about the presenters interests and past jobs perhaps 5 minutes each now and then?

Tuesdays woudn't be the same now without an episode of Deep Dive, It's My tuesday Meterology Lesson. Thanks Alex and team - you're providing a marvelous service.

I love weather banter, as an englishman its my idea of heaven!

Oh my, this is a masterclass in thunderstorm formation! Absolutely fascinating, and very educative stuff (especially the medicane that is currently soaking Greece....but putting forest fires out). Thank you so much for another brilliant Deep Dive!

Good morning Met office weather

Absolutely fascinating Deep Dive, thank you Alex and the team - I always learn so much from these. Really hoping for a much-needed "thundery breakdown" after this spell of hot and humid weather⛈⛈⛈

Thanks very much for interesting and competent presentation!

Fantastic report. This should be on TV

This guy is very good at using the screen!

Educational excellence. Thank you. :)

Of course a heatwave happens right as the schools reopen! Another fantastic deep dive and lots of useful information that I continue to learn even though I've been fascinated by weather and meteorology ever since a young age. Appreciate what you guys do, keep up the excellent work.

Dearest Alex thankyou so very much for our deep dive weather forecast I love the heat as it helps with my several different kinds of arthritis, & dread it when the rains come back! Plus it does help out as we all don't need to put on our central heating system , plus it's great for drying our washing to & know need to have our washing dried in our tumble dryer so that helps with our electricity bill, 🎉Thankyou for giving us an indeapth understanding of what's going on all around the atmosphere, & the way your teaching us all how to understanding about the global climate as a whole our planet is very important to us all ! So we do appreciate everything that you all do for us @ the met office you all work so hard to help us & keep us all educated! We'll done ❤😊 all my best wishes from Linda Dunn from Newport Shropshire UK! Xxx❤😊

I personally hate this heat , clothes stuck to you , sweat every time you move , can’t sleep , it’s uncomfortable, can’t wait for autumn to properly kick in , cooler temperatures, darker days is what suits me .

An actual passionate meteorologist. Very informative; extra-extra.

Bad news!Looking forward to the end of this heatwave, I feel very uncomfortable, UK summers have always been hot and very humid, horrible!

'...there's a lot of water. It's called the Atlantic.' Love it!

Brilliant explanations as usual. I liked the coinage Septemperature. I liked being termed a Methead as well. I’ve been one since I was ten and was taken to the London weather centre and met Bert Foord. I helped at school with opening up the Stevenson screen and noting down the readings. Please continue these wonderful deep dives. There is nothing else like this available. You are keeping the met office at the forefront of public service and the most trusted weather service in the world.

This guy is great - what's his name??? - Inforrmative, thorough but utterly entertaining - Not often the weather person makes me laugh out loud when he said "that's not me going mad with my crayons ha ha ha... I love him.

One of my weekly must-watches. The team do a great job explaining what is happening, what might happen and why it may or may not happen....👍

Ah lads, I can't take it. I get sunburned if my phone screen is to bright.

Love these.

Love the description of why the UK is so warm. I can actually picture the atmosphere and how that warm air is being drawn up from the South (Southern Europe / Africa), due to that high and low pressure slowly rotating. Pushing air North. When you start to look at weather patterns in this way, it makes so much sense. We can have sunny and calm weather across the board in the UK, but it can be much cooler, because the air is being drawn in from the North instead. The rotation is different so air pushes South. So, on that note, I may be wrong, but if we had the position of the high and low reversed, so the low was over Europe and the high off the coast of Portugal, we would still be sunny, but much cooler? Whether that type of weather pattern is typical for this time of year or not, I don't know. Makes complete sense to me visually - and on such a vast scale. Quite mind-boggling. I'm trying to picture gears rotating in water, looking down on them from above. If one on the left is rotating clockwise and one on the right anti-clockwise, water will be sucked through from the bottom. The other way around, from the top. I think. 😆

Top notch stuff. Well done indeed. Technology has come a long way, but it’s nice to see a meteorologist with such intrinsic passion as Aidan, almost on a par with Tamasz Schafanachker who is by far the most believable weather presenter at the moment. He always remains calm in a storm. Just my view. 🙂

I love the weather l find it interesting thanks

I think I've learned more about meteorology in that one deep dive than 30 years of watching the TV. Fantastically presented, you guys should consider making some documentaries - hour long series on weather systems, climate change etc. Mix on the ground exploration, with historical aspects, etc. Keep up the great work Alex and team.

I absolutely hate this heat and humidity! It’s so very interesting so thank you team!

Nice day for the weather.

Brilliant channel...great presenters. very informative and interesting. I never miss it. Cheers all..

I'm really not a summer person. This heatwave has me utterly wrecked. Sleep clock completely messed up and no energy for anything. I know it's an unpopular opinion, but bring on the cool, dark and dank.

What a fantastic job Alex, I always enjoy Deep Dives, but this one has been brilliant, super interesting and easy to understand, particularly of interest to me, would be the impact of climate change in our weather, so please do another Deep Dive whenever the report it's released, interesting also, were the stats, please keep those in as well. Many thanks and have a good week. L

Alex, one of your best and most interesting deep dive presentations - thanks from the team at Skyview Systems the weather company

I think Alex should use 'Septemperature' more often! Great as always!

Thanks for including the Med where I live. 🙏

My tomatoes quickly going red - hopefully with this heat they will all go red and I wont have to make the dreaded green tomato chutney. I like this heat it is bearable so keep the Deep Dives coming👍

Lovely team.

Great programme. It should really be on the main BBC too for everyone to enjoy.

Thank you for an extremely interesting report.......Love watching these forecasts 😊

Love your enthusiasm and knowledge Alex...great explanation of the weather. Thanks

I love these deep dives - reminds me of when I was doing A-Level Geography - they really are a must watch for this household!

Brilliant as usual

Alex, you're awesome. I love your presentation; informative, and fun. Thank you.

Thank you Alex, The best weather forecast in a week.

masterful presentation

North Wiltshire had an amazing sunset last night. Thank you for your presentation.

I REALLY LOVE THE DEEP DIVE'S EVERY TUESDAY'S YOU ALL DO REALLY WELL 😁👍🏼 TELLING US THE IMPORTANT WEATHER FORECASTS SO INTERESTING FOR ME & FOR OTHER PEOPLE TOO WHO'S INTERESTED IN THE WEATHER FORECASTS 😁👍🏼.

I'm from the netherlands and always enjoy these guys. Love the detailed info here ^_^ Keep it going!

Thank you. Your works is appreciated. Have a nice day🙂Stay healthy everyone.

Septemperature!! Love it!

35 degrees here in SW France average this week , have never known it to be this hot in early September , it’s been a year of extremes ,

This guy is the best 😊

Finally, able to drag the BBQ out 🎉 summer in the autumn. Ausum!

Really useful and informative stuff!

Guaranteed hot weather in May when kids going GCSEs etc and first week back to school in September…45yrs ago remember revising in the garden in the Sun…This year it was my Granddaughters turn…☀️🌞

How brilliant that you show us the world! Thank you for the most interesting insights. How wonderful!!!!😄

Hey, have you guys thought about changing the days for the 10 day trend and the deep dive so they are further apart? It's a bit frustrating having a double dose of whats to come 2 days in a row, but then nothing else for nearly a whole week. I find myself hearing all kinds of new info from the media in the mean time that wasn't discussed but have to wait days on end to find out how much of it is true. How about Monday and Thursday or Tuesday and Friday for the two? That way theres never more than 3 or 4 days without a long range forecast. I know theres the week ahead forecast on Monday isn't there? But still that is the day before the deep dive, so theres no long range updates in the second half of the week. The content it's self is great though, keep up the good work!

I came across this by accident. Really interesting. And I love Alex's delivery! Who knew that over 20 degrees at night was classed as a tropical night? :) I'll look for this again - cheers Alex!

Got the hay done in September, never so late but it helped knowing the weather prediction..

A very good presentation 👍

Fabulous, thank you. I always look forward to this, and the 10 day.

Great broadcast 👍 following from Ireland 🇮🇪

Septemprature 😅 I'm using that 🎉

It's too hot need snow, I summon snow!

Absolutely fascinating think I will have to watch it again to get my head around this one

Thank you Alex. I rely on you all year due to me taking the boat out in the Bristol Channel and I’ve found there’s no other weather service that gets it as spot on as the Met Office. Thank you all

Love watching these videos, find them so interesting. I see the heavy rain forecast for Greece, I will be in Rhodes next week

Totally fascinating to see the drivers of our weather. Great job explaining the complexity.

Proper geeking out on the different type of storms and how thet are formed. I remember when I was younger questioning why there was lightening but not rain...now I know why that was the case! Thanks SO much for these videos!

These are brilliant.

I always trust the Met Office. I have noticed that the BBC weather forecast has been off the mark on quite a few occasions lately. eg saying it’s wall to wall sunshine, and I look out the window and it’s overcast all day!; or it’s supposed to be dry when it’s raining, or 98% expected storms and nothing, not a peep, AND getting a storm when not forecast. I know storms are hard to predict but 98%? Whenever it’s snowed in work, we would all check out the Met Office for an accurate picture. I think the changes in accuracy started when the BBC decided to go with someone else. (I think that’s right). I, like many other people, were appalled when they did that!

Thanks MetOffice! Really interesting…

Excellent explanation

thanks love the good weather news

Thanks Alex. Another brilliant Deep Dive. So very interesting and informative.

very informative, excellent..

We love our deep dive with Alex.

Nice REPORT.

Excellent stuff. Going to put Deep Dive on my weekly schedule as its so much better than any other weather analysis or even the synoptic charts. Thanks!

I follow and look forward to all the Weather presentations. The team work, gives us a lot of valuable information. This collective input should help support environmental, ecology studies.

I do so love this way of explaining the weather 👍🏻👍🏻

Wow you make it so understandable and interesting.

Really love the deep dives. As an outdoorsy person having a few days warning really helps planning. Have to say the previous deep dive talking about how the USA hurricanes we just had would likely disrupt the jet stream and bring us a strong high was spot on. Learn so much from these. Thanks for putting them out!

Loving the deep dives! Brilliantly informative and so clearly explained. Love being a met head and now there’s an outlet for it!

HATE this heat can't wait for it to cool down again! Reason why I don't live in spain!

I really like the context this brings to the daily forecasts.

Love the deep dives, very informative. My only question is regarding night time temps. I was up about 03:30 this morning, decided to open the door and to check out the weather, well if that was supposed to be around 19deg. it felt about 10 deg. Couldn't wait to close the door and go back to a stiflingly hot bedroom. Anyway keep up the deep dives and general weather forecasting👍

Great video again thanks again ❤

Great info for cruising sailors !!

I really enjoy your detailed explanations.

thank you Alex. much needed info. Great job MET

I love these deep dives❤ keep them coming!

Excellent coverage of all aspects meteorological in the deep dive. I’m from Belfast and currently on hols in Corfu. Appreciated the coverage of #stormdaniel. We experienced the extreme thunderstorm warning issued by Greek met on Monday. Had to take shelter in a beach bar and witness a slow moving thunderstorm moving southeast. Frequent fork lightning with associated thunder claps. Torrential rain and when overhead the Downdraft rapidly lowered the temps bring with it hail the size of 3cm in diameter and heavy squall reducing vis to less than 100yds. Hail may not sound impressive but when ur sheltering under a tin roof it’s pretty deafening.

Really found that interesting so many thanks. The Deep Dives are very educational and informative as I like to know what the weather has and is doing.

Love these deep dives.. following & understanding the weather has been an interest since I was a kid and prayed for snow every winter! I now pray for dry sunny, weather as I own a bunch of motorcycles & wont ride in rain!😂 I gotta say, I am loving this late summer heat! 🌞😎👍🏼

❤❤❤ Love love love these deep 🤿 dive video's ~ they are SO informative and educational - G. [ Chartered Engineer - Bracknell ~ ex. Met Office base ] . It's like doing my 3rd BTEC HND , in Meteorology and Climate , watching your many ; lectures/videos - weekly .. Thank you ; 👏👏👏 Alex'(s) Aiden Johnathan Clare etc.. & co. - team , your Definitely ! on my Christmas Card * list ( * It will have snow 🌨❄ on it 🙂, is that OK ..🤣. ) 👍. Addedum. HOW does this compare to the summer of 1940 Battle of Britain ~ similar September Weather ?? .. 🤔 Addedum(2). Just checked Sept. 1940 from the bank holiday if there was one end Aug 1940 , sunny temperatures averaged 25 degreees for 12 days .. then on the 10th September temp. plummeted to 12/13 degrees for 3 days !!