Deep Dive 14/05/2024 - The weather from out of this world - Met Office weekly weather forecast UK 

You’re a cheery chap Alex. Professional as well. You make weather seem easy.

Delighted to see you showcasing the width and depth of the scientific expertise at the Met Office! ❤

"Flabby old weather patterns": I love the description a lot more than the weather it continues to produce! Thanks for another super-enthused DD. Great stuff!

Thank you Alex, I really enjoyed the deep dive this week and I shall be looking up whenever I can as the swifts have arrived home for the summer and watching them is the best medicine I can think of.😊

What a great conversation between you and Krista. Super insightful and some great questions being answered! Thank you Alex, Krista and the Met Office.

sharing the love ,thank you alex.

My dream was to see the northern lights once in my lifetime, but to see them from my back garden, was a magical experience. ❤️

I am a truck driver and on Monday I was delivering in Plymouth and it was very wet and at times very windy. A few hundred miles north in Swindon where I am based it was dry and a bit further in Oxfordshire it was 18c and sunny . Amazing how different our weather can be across the country.

Thanks for this, really enjoyed this and thanks to for Krista for an explanation that didn't treat the audience as a bunch of 5 year olds. I was lucky to see the aurora on friday and could not quite believe what I was seeing, it was incredible - knowing its a first for 20 years makes me feel lucky to have been out to see it

Krista did a fantastic job of explaining the technical details of the recent aurora in an easily digestable way. 👍

Very many thanks indeed Alex! What an absolutely fantastic Deep Dive with you this evening, just about every minute was filled with such interesting facts and stats, brilliant!! 😮Bring on Christa/Krista and even more thrills and spills!! It was stunning just how tiny Earth looks compared to the sun…WOW!!! 😮Totally stunning!! We were able to get some very good shots of the Aurora on Friday, but nothing compared with some I saw on Twitter! DD was just brilliant tonight thanks Alex, very many thanks, I’ll save it as normal and LOVE it. Thanks to the Met for your work and take care everyone 😊

Hi Alex my favourite time of the week. Love the deep dive

Fantastic deep dive, loved the Aurora borealis section

Thank's Alex always enjoy your presentation.

I like the message at the end. Very commendable, I wish kids would take note of such a basic approaches to preserving their mental health.

Seeing the aurora from my garden in East Sussex was the most incredible experience. Simply stunning. Great info - more plz

I was lucky enough.. splendid show of aurora…. Bucket list ✅

Alex thank you for a super deep dive and for sharing mental health awareness week. ❤

This is really interesting and educational - and so well presented. Thank you!

Great to see Krista again for more space weather, I would love to see more from Krista on how space weather impacts Earths weather such as the charged atmosphere and lightning storms as a result of space weather and Solar storms and even the impacts to seismicity, Earthquakes and Volcanoes!?

Enjoying the Space Forecast today, reminds me of The Sky At Night

Absolutely Brilliant all ! Fascinating 👋👋👋

Thank you, Alex

This was a really interesting deep dive, it usually is but this one was particularly fascinating. Thanks Alex.

Aurora was amazing 😮

Great show, loved the space weather segment

Great vid as always

Wow absolutely fascinating 😁

I should love to see some videos devoted to severe weather events going on around the world and in the news. I think this would enhance public understanding, not just in the UK, but in counties where their met services don't have access to satellite data or forecasting models of the quality of UKMO (and ECMWF).

Absolutely brilliant Alex, thanks so much

Thanks Alex , a very interesting deep dive . Krista ,( I hope I spelled her name correctly ) , always adds a spark to the proceedings . A very interesting Lady . I feel educated and entertained .

Excellent deep dive. I also missed the Aurora. Tried Saturday night, but only my camera picked up any faint colours. Hope it's not another 20+ years and we get another chance this year

So the deep dive clued me in on all the happenings leading up to what I missed on Friday night!

Here's a link to the previous deep dive with Krista on Space weather ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AK9kvlNwwQY.htmlsi=abTz5ExBDMJv0jmV

Great stuff

Viewing a Weather Deep Dive presented by Alex is like viewing an exciting episode of James Bond.

i do love the deep dive

Hi Alex I think some members of the public would be really interested to see some of the tech behind your forecasts, the super computer how the data is pulled in and used etc. what do you think would something like that be possible in the future?

That was great 👍 thanks ❤

A question about accuracy of forecasts: On Sunday (12/5/24) I wanted to go hiking in the South-East (south of London, lets say in Hampshire/Surrey - in the direction of the M3). I checked the forecast the night before and on Sunday morning. Both suggested that there was rain moving in from the west arriving late in the afternoon, but the M3 'corridor' would be on the edge of it. There was would also be thunderstorms forming as the afternoon went on, These would be from an area north of (approximately) Basingstoke/Guildford towards London. The only way to avoid these thunderstorms would have been to hike nearer to the coast (towards Southampton) as the region near the coast had no thunderstorms forecast. In reality, as you showed in this deep dive presentation, there were no thunderstorms in the region described (they were mainly in the North West). I checked the observations later on Sunday evening and there was no thunderstorms (or rain) south of London in this area i.e. the forecast was completely wrong. I understand that predicting exactly where thunderstorms will occur is difficult (one place may be getting a torrential downpour whereas a few miles away might be completely dry). However, this was a failure to predict in which REGION the thunderstorms were likely to occur. My question is why was this forecast was so inaccurate in terms of thunderstorms, given that it was made only hours before the time of interest?

I’m a teaching assistant in a primary school and love to impart my weather knowledge to the children, courtesy of these deep dives. Every days a school day, even for us adults! It would be interesting to know how rain fall is measured. 5mm of water in a test tube is quite different from that of a cereal bowl for example. Perhaps you could explain this please on one of your videos. Thank you. Mr Smith (aka James)

Thank you for pointing out the biblical rain we had in Manchester (and other areas) - yes, Old Trafford is leaky, but not many buildings would have coped with that volume of water in such a short period!

It would be great if the met office did a Space Weather video like the weather. Be great for us amateurs in the UK

I'm on the east coast of Scotland, but despite the haar, I thoroughly enjoyed that update, especially with the explanation of the superb display of the northern lights which I was fortunate enough to witness (well, at least my camera was ... haha!)

Thank you mr weather man 😊

Really fascinating Deep Dive.Thank you Alex.Unfortunately I never saw the Aurora! Seriously though I think that I have be made aware of sun spot cycles through many years of short wave radio listening.Through propagation reports, the effects that sun spots have on radio signals. Once again,thank you for an absorbing Deep Dive

Christa's Ace 😊

I missed the Aurora on the Friday night I was tired so fell asleep.

Top stuff. Keep them coming

Awesome thunderstorms in Lancashire last sunday. Roll on the next lot 👌⚡️

The big sunspot shown started as 2 that morphed into 1 huge one. As a radio amateur operator, I see these wiping out the radio communications

Hello Alex. Always a big fan of your Deep Dives. I’m wondering - how is it decided who presents? A rota? It seems yourself and Aidan are the senior pros, with Annie and the other Alex learning from you. All the best - Paul

I live in Victoria BC Canada and I was led here by a facebook friend in York. I have a question, We had very light cloud in Victoria for the Aurora, luckily I had a friend from up north visiting (who had seen them before). He went outside for a smoke and called me out, "its starting!". But there was no aurora yet, the clouds just looked really weird! Those directly above us lined up more or less east to west like roll clouds. A little while later, they became like lines of longitude in a planetarium with a "pole" just to the south of the middle of the sky. Nearly all the lines came from the northern part of the sky and about this time the aurora itself started. Then, for the next 3 hours, the aurora and the the lines waxed and waned (pretty much the clouds disappeared then appeared again as the fine lines) with a period time of about 20 minutes. Aurora was mostly green to the north with pink to the north west. The lines were white cloud, like very skinny contrails, except at that "pole" where they got fluffy where they met. When I described this to John in York, he said he did see very faint pink lines directly above him when he happened to look straight up, but didn't know if it was aurora related because he barely saw the aurora at all. So anyways, i have another friend who lived way up North in Dawson Creek, and she knew about the cloud thing too. My question is, why do so few people know about the clouds lining up? That was the most amazing part for me. A lot more amazing that the coloured lights because it took over the northern half the sky.. I posted about it on a physics forum, but few believe me. I grew up in Ireland, so I have seen a heck of a lot of clouds, but I never saw anything like this. Definitely a highlight. I presume the charged particles were following lines of the earth's magnetic field, and acting like they would in a cloud chamber over me, and they ionized nitrogen over John in York. I'd love to hear if anyone else noticed it. Brian

Afternoon Alex when are we going to have more dryer weather and sunny weather and the heatwave I got a Tenby trip on the 12th of June I don't want any rain on that day

Why is it you only find out ,after the event..😮

It's been very muggy here in West Yorkshire.

It's a bit reverby in there maybe some acoustic foam up in the wall behind the camera out of sight 👍

Hi we have had gales here in Carmarthen yesterday and today yet it wasn't said on the BBC weather forecast 😳

Still interesting deep dive. Can you see the chart where the computer runs are done to show high or low pressure on the internet? It might help people get a long range forecast.

I'm sorry but Tue has been a nice evening

Please invite Krista back to explain what would happen if we had a 1859 "Carrington" Solar Event in 2024...

What sort of things can be done by companies to protect infrastructure from geomagnetic storms if they receive a warning?

Hello - hope you enjoyed the weekend of heat and northern lights Quick question how does humidity play a factor in temperature etc with %s etc. Am a bit dumb lol

Wow,wow, wow

Would you please explain in one of your deep dives what causes low pressure systems to form overhead when the jetstream curves around to the south of the UK?

Well that was cool ..

We did need the showers

I'm not sure if i'd call it lucky seeing an aurora this far south. How far are we off the next Carrington event, yet alone the next pole shift? I think I'll stick to Suspicious0bservers for space weather. This has really been downplayed.

Is that an omega block at 04:50?

It was amazing sight.

Oooks like showers will stay. Very average weather for the uk.

Alex I didn’t even know there was an aura idk how to spell but I was fast asleep

Iam on holiday on the 10 of June in the Cotswolds will it be dry then

It Was Thundering On Sunday

wow a Scottish voice, very unusual

Going cold?

By the power of RA 🔆🫰🏼💥💯

Are you able to do a deep dive on how you measure totals E.g rain fall totals ect? your always saying about so many mm of rain ect.

What are the 2 other objects next to the sun?

Remember. It’s a forecast not a news cast. 😂😂 Another abysmal sporadic something from the Met Office 🫣

Thank's Alex always enjoy your presentation.