I bloody love watching these, i really do enjoy the longer informal format of them. also, Aidan has a fantastic ability that makes me personally feel like he's just talking directly to me. Please keep making these. :)
Particularly enjoyed your description of tephigrams; perhaps if there is a week when the weather isn't as interesting you could give a more general discussion of humidity and dew point in relation to weather.
Indeed. I struggled at first but if I had have seen this years ago, it would have been much easier. These charts look so much more complicated than they are. Hats off to the meto and aiden 👏
Outstanding! The best deep dive yet IMHO. The computer model(s) are incredible, the graphical interface is astounding, the human interpretation brings it all together (odd, how with all this computing power we still need a weatherman to tell us if its going to rain..) As an ex-display systems engineer and current trainee pilot I learned more in the last 20 minutes than any previous hours or days I can remember. Thanks.
I'm a retired sea Captain, 30+ years crossing our oceans under sail, where understanding the weather is critically important. In days gone by before the satellite and the weatherfax we watched the barograph like hawks, the wet finger and Buy Ballots law was all we had. The most fascinating thing about observing the weather is that there's always more to learn, every day the weather is unique. Thank you for your diligent work preparing these lectures and your boundless enthusiasm and for sharing your proffesional knowledge of all thats happened to our understanding of the weather since those inscrutable times. Fantastic and thank you.
“When the weather becomes less interesting”!? Can’t imagine the day! Really enjoyed learning about tephigrams. As a bit of a self proclaimed weather geek I was delighted as I’ve never heard of them before. Is climate change making forecasting more difficult?
Love these deep dives. I’m an airline pilot and weather junkie and your weather reporting really helps me see the “big picture” for my work week. Keep up the good work 👍
Always very informative and i realize just how unpredictable the weather can be, but i understand details that you talk about with a clearer understanding . Thank you all at the Met Office for your expertise in bringing this Deep Dive session... PeterF
Great service, learning so much. Please include more comment on wind speed, interesting for those sports that depend on it or need to avoid it. Thanks!
This is the best explanation I have seen in my years of learning and teaching weather to hobby sailors as part of their navigation courses. Particularly useful as I am about to eat my own dinner and travel the Atlantic under sail next week. Please keep up this formidable quality. It is outstanding for both content and delivery
I loved the magic pen, I wanted you to drag it over where we live! Haha. Great explanations, we did a little rain dance as a joke and think that's why the rain is finally coming! Our ground is bone dry in the Scottish Borders.
I get the feeling Aidan was very happy to be able to talk about a change, finally! His (and Alex's) explanations are superb as ever, even if he's humble enough to say his last explanation wasn't good (when it was actually great) Something I'd love one of you to cover if there is a chance: with all these weeks of north sea cloud and the talk of it "burning back" towards the coast, I'd love to know more about how you forecast the rate it will burn back and what the variables are that influence that.
Another very interesting presentation, Just amazing how complex a subject weather forecasting really is. I would have loved to have had a carreer in it, but it was not a subject that was available to us out in the sticks back in the 1970's.
Really enjoy these Deep Dives. I have always been interested in meteorology ever since we did a bit for A level geography back in the 70's. I wish we could have had this sort of explanation back then! Please keep making them.
I've been watching the weather since I was a child (I'm now into my late 60's) and have kept records from when I was 14. Always been fascinated by thunderstorms. Don't seem to get the big one's imported from France so much nowadays and definitely a decline here in Herts since the 1960's. These so called high level thunderstorms from unstable altocumulus seem to be more common. More in the way of lightning but not much rain.
You know some people get crushes on rock stars watching them strut their stuff on stage...well I get the same feeling watching Aiden geek out on the weather. 🥰😅 P.s Great explanation of skew-t graphs. To be fair to Aiden I got it from his last video just fine.
Is there anything straight forward about out weather?!!!Really enjoy these Deep Dives.Seriously though I learn something new every time.Thank you they are very much appreciated.
With a glass of wine in hand I did have to concentrate hard to keep up although I'm glad there wasn't a test for us afterwards ! Excellent stuff Aiden !
Really enjoying these deep dives and explanations. A suggestion: other deep dives on weather phenomena in the world, for example the Catatumbo lightning storms.
YESSS I’m so excited to watch this. I hope it stays warm. I love temperatures around 28 degrees. It’s nice and warm but not extreme. I hope it stays hot pleaseee
Always had interest in weather never fully understood tephigrams until now. Thanks for your informative description made it much clearer. Best long term forecast always look forward to watching them.
Great in depth presentation Aidan. Please keep them coming, learning lots of new things about weather. As an outdoors person, I've always been interested in the weather. Meteorologist, such an interesting job, plus you can get things wrong and no one will blame you - ( even become famous like Michael Fish ! ) Just wondering if the 4 computer models are ever combined into a sort of "Master" model ? All the best to the MET Office Team, from the cooler NE Scotland.
Thx Aiden, love the deep dives. You have a way of explaining things that I can grasp, no offense to the other from the met office. With a bit of luck the met office will quash the other yew toobers who pull data from websites, waffle on and see what they want to see. Side note: love a good thunderstorm, which is second to snow.
Very much appreciate the deep dive videos. Am retired airline captain and have always been interested of course in the weather. Used to draw Tephigrams during our ground school training. Please though only refer to heights in feet, please please 🙂
Aiden, I really appreciate what you're saying about Tephigrams at 14:00 - I've _just_ signed up with a gliding club and had never heard of them! Now I'm off to do some research! Can I get daily Tephigrams for Dunstable? I'm going to Google it later! Thanks again!
Uh oh, who messed with the sound levels knob? It's been lovely and clear for about 3 weeks but we are back to square one and it sounding quiet. If you are going to be quiet, then please allow subtitles to be used.
Absolutely true " a wet and windy month of May fills the barn with hay" .. We in West of Ireland have had 23° every day and definitely the barns are filling up!
Wow what a fantastic Deep Dive Aidan! I thoroughly enjoyed it, so very interesting and informative. I really enjoyed learning all about the Tephigrams, totally fascinating!! 😮I can’t wait for next week’s! Very many grateful thanks indeed Aidan. BTW is it possible to see the weather balloons and how large are they? Yes I would most certainly like more DDs 😊
Thanks Aiden for that lovely explanation of the tephigram and working out cloud base and height. Takes me back to my college days. Would love to have more about the interaction of the atmosphere at different levels.
Just thinking it would be lovely if we could have the radiosonde data from around the country available in real time, perhaps as another layer in the WOW website, for those of us with a special interest, even if only available after logging in.
Thank goodness we're getting some rain, just wish it was going to be more persistant and widespread. The soil in Wiltshire is dry - it's gone from around 40% Volumetric Water Content on 10th May to around 20% now, not too far off the level we reached in the driest months of 2022. We need healthy crops and good crop yields to keep down food costs, and the crops need rain to grow well, so lets hope that we get some gentle presistent rain over the next few weeks.
Why dont you ever say about Eastbourne and Bexhill?? Bexhill-on-sea is always cold and windy,Will we see a change??. Great videos though,and thank you.
Awesome! Entropy gets a mention today (love it). So if atmospheric entropy is low, Free Energy must be high - does that mean more chance of energy dissipation and lively thunder storms?
Hi Met friends, no content notes but I am going to point out I had to turn the sound right up because it's just a bit too quite, could the computer team have a wee look at that please.
So enjoyed today's deep dive, especially the deeper look at tephigrams. As a paraglider pilot I lok at these regularly and thsi has gelped my basic level of understanding move up a gew notches. Over the last week I have noticed that the general met office forecast of surface wind speeds in NW England has been in single figure mph, which is normally OK for launching a paraglider; however the actual winds have been much stronger than this, to dangerous levels, catching some people out. Can you explain why these easterly winds (between the surface and only a few hundred feet up) have been so much stronger than the forecasts? Just to hlep us make mre sense of the general forecast wind strengths. Thanks
A very interesting video, very informative. I’m always interested in why medium sided columnar clouds have a distinct flat base. I know it’s because the air changes at a certain height but I might have expected a more irregular base. I once saw the most amazing circular, stacked lenticular cloud lit up from below by the evening sun over The A1 in Yorkshire. It remained stable for at least an hour. When does the atmosphere become stratified like that?
