This is an in-depth Met Office UK Weather forecast for the next week and beyond 25/03/2025 – The clocks spring forward this weekend with some unsettled weather to come. Bringing you this deep dive is Met Office meteorologist Alex Burkill.
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00:00Hello, very good day to you. Welcome to the latest NMAT Office Deep Dive. It's Tuesday,
00:04I'm coming to you from our headquarters here in Exeter. I'm Alex Burkill, presenter and
00:10meteorologist, and I'll be talking to you for the next 20 to 30 minutes or so about
00:15everything that's going on with the weather. Thank you for joining me. Thank you if this
00:19is your first time. Thank you if you've watched these Deep Dives many times before. As always,
00:24leave some comments, ask some questions. I will be responding to as many of them as I
00:28can either later on today or we also look at them in our weather studio live on a Friday
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00:39sometimes answer them then. Also hit the like button, hit the share button and make sure
00:43you're subscribing so you never miss one of these updates. But let's get going. Lots to
00:47talk about. I'm going to be looking at Australia, looking up into space, but also looking at
00:52the UK. So let's start off with the UK and a quick look at the forecast as we go through
00:57the rest of this week. I'm not going to delve too much into the forecast for the UK because
01:01I don't want to tread on the toes of Anna, who will be doing the 10 day trend tomorrow.
01:06But nonetheless, as we go through the rest of Tuesday, I'm actually going to get rid
01:09of the jet stream and instead put the rainfall on. There has been a front pushing its way
01:13southeastwards, but that's not caused too many problems if I click play. And we actually
01:18have high pressure becoming more dominant as we go through Tuesday night and into Wednesday.
01:23So that does mean we're in for a quiet night. It's going to be a bit chilly, touch of frost
01:27in some places, could be some fog, could be quite thick, could be quite dense, could
01:31cause some problems through Wednesday morning and temperatures in some places as low as
01:35minus two, minus three. But then through Wednesday itself, just going to pause it there before
01:39it goes on too far ahead and high pressure firmly in control. So it's actually looking
01:43like a largely fine day. Lots of decent weather around, plenty of sunshine. But towards the
01:49northwest of the UK, we do have a front that's pushing its way in. So we are going to see
01:54some wet weather arriving during the latter part of Wednesday. That front then pushes
01:59its way southeastwards as we go through Thursday and really then the latter part of this week,
02:06Thursday, Friday, we are going to see some changeable weather. There'll be some rain
02:09pushing through. There'll be some stronger winds. Notice low pressure towards the north
02:14of the UK. So something a bit more unsettled there. And yeah, we are going to see some
02:18rain and some strong winds, particularly across northern western parts. But that rain is gradually
02:23going to push its way southeastwards as we go through Thursday and Friday as well. I
02:27think by the time that we get to Friday, it's going to be this front that pushes through.
02:30So a spell of rain across England and Wales, then showers following in behind across northern
02:35parts. But they could be quite blustery, some strong winds, gales maybe in some coastal
02:39spots and the showers could be quite heavy. They could be quite thundery as well. I'm
02:43just going to stop it then because there because I want to show you some rainfall totals for
02:48this coming for the next few days. And if we look at our 24 hour rainfall totals and
02:55this, I've picked the wrong one. I just want to look at Thursday. So this is 24 hours up
03:00until six o'clock Thursday evening and really much of England and Wales actually by this
03:05point largely dry. I'm not really expecting the rain to have really reached here much
03:09or not brought a huge amount anyway. Scotland and Northern Ireland, though, is starting
03:15to see some totals building up. And if we go ahead now looking at the 24 hours up until
03:20six a.m. on Friday morning and some higher totals, you know, we could be looking at 10,
03:2620, maybe 30 millimeters in a few places. A small chance 20 to 40 percent chance perhaps
03:32of seeing around 50 millimeters over some parts of western Scotland. Not really enough
03:38to cause any major problems. We've had a lot of dry weather recently. I'll be talking about
03:43that in a second. But nonetheless, a wetter spell, definitely looking more unsettled as
03:48we go through towards the end of the week and into the weekend. And then just yet darting
03:53ahead to six o'clock on Friday and the 24 hour rainfall total show that it's going to
03:59be showery, but most of us will see some rain could be a little bit heavy at times, but
04:04again, shouldn't cause too many issues. Just a more unsettled end to the week than we'll
04:09have had during the middle part of the week. But what happens thereafter? And let's go
04:14back to our synoptic picture. And again, I'll just put the rain on. Let's start ahead to
04:19Saturday. And if I just go back. So the low pressure that is bringing the blustery showers
04:27on Friday that clears away towards the northeast. And actually, if I just pause it, we do have
04:32a bit of a ridge of high pressure building as we go through Friday night and into Saturday.
04:37So again, a quieter spell for a time. So actually, Saturday starts off relatively fine for
04:43many places. There will actually be a lot of fine weather around on Saturday. I'll talk about the
04:48forecast for Saturday, but more detail coming up and you'll see why. But through Saturday,
04:52then later on again, another system comes in from the west northwest, similar to Thursday,
04:57Friday, really low pressure to the north of the UK, driving a front across us. So we are
05:02going to see some more rain arriving and pushing its way through. But if I just run this to the
05:08very end of the sequence, I think it comes to a stop automatically. So, yeah, so a fine start
05:12on Saturday. But most of us will then see a spell of rain pushing through later. What happens,
05:16though, after that? And this is where there's actually pretty high uncertainty. Uncertainty
05:22levels at this time of year can often be quite high. And this is definitely no exception.
05:28This is the global model from the Met Office. And this suggests that there's another feature,
05:33another low pressure centre that's coming in from the west and could push through as we go through
05:37the second half of Sunday. High pressure towards the southwest of us, not really doing a huge
05:44amount for the time being. But the ECMWF model, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather
05:50Forecasting, has this high pressure much more over the UK, much more further north. And so that then
05:56blocks anything coming in from the west. And so we'll see a transition to something a bit drier,
06:02a bit more settled that little bit earlier. I think we're in pretty good agreement, along with
06:08all the models, that we are going to see a transition to more settled weather as we go
06:13through the first week of April. I'll have more about that on our 14-day outlook, which is available
06:18on our app. So do check that out if you want to know more about this. But we're in pretty good
06:22agreement. There is more settled weather on the way as we go through next week. Actually, we'll
06:27talk about that in a bit. But it's that transition, that change from the unsettled spell that we have
06:35towards the end of this week to something more settled as we go through next week. Exactly when
06:40that's going to happen, big, big question marks. And I wanted to take a look as to why this question
06:46mark is so big as to what's going to happen during Sunday and into Monday. And so to do that,
06:53well, I spoke to a couple of our chief meteorologists here. And they pointed me to the
06:58Pacific Ocean, so really far away. We've gone across the Atlantic. We've gone across North America,
07:05which is here. Here is a satellite image from earlier on today. And it's this feature here,
07:11out in the Pacific, that they highlighted. If I can just show you this feature here,
07:17it's an area of low pressure going through cyclogenesis, so deepening at the moment. And
07:22exactly how much this deepens and then what happens thereafter, well, it's this that's
07:27likely to be playing a part in the weather that we can expect in around five days' time. So it's
07:33a developing area of low pressure. But what exactly is going to happen? Well, actually,
07:38I want to show you another chart. And this was created from Dr. Alicia M. Bentley's website.
07:46And it's quite a confusing one, so I will try and explain it. We're looking down onto the North Pole.
07:52So we're up above looking down onto the North Pole. And this is showing us what's going on
07:58at around 300 to 200 hectopascals. So I think that's around 9,000 to 12,000 meters up. Yeah,
08:069,000 to 12,000 up, roughly. And there are various things going on. Now, I'll try and point out. So
08:12here's the UK, just over here. And then we have North America. And so then over here is the
08:18Pacific. And it's here that's where we have that low pressure that I mentioned and showed you
08:24earlier in the satellite imagery. And what you have is you can see these arrows spreading out.
08:29So that shows that we have divergence aloft. If we have such divergence aloft, it shows that the
08:34rising up, which is what we get with low pressure. So this suggests that we are going to or we have
08:39got low pressure developing out in the Pacific. Now, what that's then likely to do is lead to a
08:45strengthening of the jet stream. And then this whole feature pushes its way eastwards, as we
08:50often see, pushes its way towards us. But before then, it is likely to get quite modified. So it's
08:57going to come across North America, a lot of land. It's going to come across the Rockies, high ground
09:01notoriously modifies things as well. And then it will come across and towards over the Atlantic.
09:07And exactly what it's going to do is it makes its progress towards the UK. The influence of
09:13this feature, well, that's still all to play for. And it really has really marked effects
09:19on what's going to be happening in the UK. There's a high chance that we're going to see
09:23some sort of trough disruption somewhere towards Iberia as we go through the end of the weekend,
09:29early part of next week. And so then that plays a part into exactly what's going to happen towards
09:34the UK. So it's worth bearing in mind. Well, we often say that the weather that's going on
09:39around the other side of the world can influence our weather. And I think in this instance,
09:43that could really be the case. So an area of low pressure that hasn't even fully developed yet.
09:47So we don't even know exactly how intense it's going to be. But an area of low pressure out in
09:51the Pacific is likely to influence things coming towards us. And then that's likely to or that's
09:56causing the uncertainty about what's going to happen during, well, Sunday into Monday and
10:02perhaps even Tuesday. But thereafter, and I mentioned the fact that there's actually strong
10:10signs for more settled weather to develop. So if we look at our pressure anomaly chart from ECMWF,
10:16and this is for the whole of next week, so from Monday the 31st of March until Monday the 7th of
10:22April, pardon me. And the pinks showing that high pressure is or higher than average pressure
10:28is much more likely across much of the UK. What we had is that high pressure towards
10:33the southwest of us. That's likely to build and push its way north, northeastwards
10:37as we go through next week. And so we're going to see our weather settling down quite nicely.
10:42Like I said, most of the models in fairly good agreement that we're going to see this
10:46high pressure pushing in. That position for where we'll see the high, there are some discrepancies.
10:50But most likely high pressure pushing its way across the UK as we go through next week.
10:56Even if we go further ahead and to the following week, so from the 7th to the 14th, and yet high
11:02pressure is pushed even further northwards. It's now to the north of the UK, but nonetheless still
11:07heavily influencing our weather. So there are strong indications that we are going to see
11:12a blocking pattern around the UK or nearby to the UK as we go through, well, pretty deep
11:19into April. Now, why are we seeing this blocking pattern? Well, cast your back a few weeks. Sorry,
11:23I'm treading on my microphone cable. Cast your back a few weeks. And we're talking about, well,
11:28those rumors, well, talk of sudden stratospheric warming. And it's because the stratospheric
11:34polar vortex had an early breakdown. So it always breaks down as we go towards the
11:39end of winter and into spring. But this time, the breakdown happened a few weeks earlier than
11:44we often see. When the stratospheric polar vortex breaks down because it changes the wind direction,
11:50we often see this sort of blocking pattern developing a few weeks later, around three
11:55weeks later, which is what we're seeing at this, well, as we go through next week and beyond,
12:01this blocking pattern developing. With high pressure to the north of us, that allows for an
12:06easterly to push its way across the country. If this was happening deep into winter, an easterly
12:12would be a cold direction. You've no doubt heard of beasts from the east. And so we could have some
12:17very cold air pushing its way in. Actually, at this time of year, a very different story,
12:21especially because temperatures across many parts of Europe are actually a little bit above average
12:27for the time of year currently. A lot of the snow has melted. And so I'm not expecting any
12:32major cold snap. In fact, actually, if I look at a few other charts, here's the rainfall anomaly
12:38chart. And it shows that, well, as you would expect for next week, with high pressure sitting
12:43across the UK, we have a lot of dry weather to come. So it looks like a largely fine picture.
12:48And if we look at our temperature anomaly, and it looks like it's going to be, if anything,
12:53a little bit warmer than average, with partly because the fact that there'll be lots of dry,
12:58fine weather around, but also some relatively warm air. I haven't got the chart, but even the
13:01following week, when we have the high pressure further north and the easterly, temperatures are
13:05only around or a little bit above average, especially towards the north. And that's because,
13:09like I said, even though we are dragging in an easterly, because we're now heading deeper into
13:14spring, the land over Europe, it has more heat behind it. And if anything, temperatures are
13:18actually a bit above average for the time of year. So yes, there's some uncertainty about what's
13:24going to happen through this weekend and the beginning of next week, how quickly we transition
13:30to this more settled spell, which is looking more likely. That's where the question marks are. But
13:36it's pretty likely that we are going to see high pressure building for next week. And for a large
13:42chunk, at least the first half of April, it looks like it's going to play a big part in the weather
13:47that we're going to have here in the UK. Like I said, Anna will have more about this for the next,
13:52well, what we can expect through the next 10 days or so in the 10-day trend. Worth bearing in mind,
13:57just to go back to this picture here, as I mentioned, this low pressure, that's developing
14:03out in the Pacific likely to – or is playing a role in our uncertainty that we have for the latter
14:09part of the weekend. This is currently developing. You'd expect it to develop in the next 12 to 24,
14:1436 hours or so. And so with that in mind, maybe by the time Anna is doing the 10-day trend or
14:20perhaps definitely by the time that we're doing the weekend forecast on Thursday, we should have
14:24a better understanding of what this is doing, as we should have a better understanding of what the
14:29weather's going to be doing a few days ahead, which is no great surprise. But yeah, it's just
14:34once this is really developed, then we'll know better about what's likely to happen.
14:40Even still, it will get heavily modified. Everything's going to be quite interfered
14:45with as it crosses North America, the Rockies, and then pushes its way across the Atlantic as well.
14:51Right. Before we dart on to things further afield, and I did want to mention just a few
14:57things about the UK weather that we've seen recently. You're no doubt aware that we've had
15:02a lot of dry weather so far this March. And here is a map to illustrate that. This map is the
15:09totals that we've seen so far through March compared to the average for March. But this is
15:17actually the chart that was created using the data from the 1st to the 20th. So, at that stage,
15:24we were 65% of the way through the month. But look how brown it is. Pretty much everywhere
15:31had significantly drier than average, or was drier than average for this stage in the month.
15:38Most places in that sub-20% of the average rainfall. And like I say, we're about 65%
15:44of the way through the month at this point. So, that's kind of what you'd expect for average.
15:49So, really dry first three weeks of March. Then we did have some rain. So, if I now show you the
15:55up-to-date chart, and this has data up to and including yesterday, so the 24th. Now, we're 77%
16:01of the way through the month. And still, some places, particularly towards Western Scotland,
16:06Northern Ireland, Wales, Southern England, very dry for many places. London, for example,
16:11had around 7% of its average March rainfall at this stage. And Devon has only had around 5%
16:18of its average March rainfall so far this month. We're not at the end of the month. There is some
16:24wet weather still to come. Not loads, but there is some wet weather. So, those totals are going
16:28up to go up. But as you can see, it still has been remarkably dry so far this month.
16:34Not everywhere, though. Worth bearing in mind, poor Shetland, unless you really like the rain,
16:38Shetland have had around 95% of their average, so a bit more than you'd expect at this time of the
16:45month. And yeah, so it's been fairly wet up in Shetland, whilst everywhere else it's been pretty
16:53dry. Then, right, let's go across to the other side of the world, quite literally, and let's
17:01head towards Australia. Now, here's a satellite image from earlier on today. And there are a few
17:07things to bear in mind. Across parts of northern Australia, they've had some intense rainfall
17:11recently. And there's more heavy rain to come. You can see those big clouds that have developed
17:16around northern Australia and down the eastern side as well. And that's leading to some, yeah,
17:21heavy rain. We're talking 300, 400 millimetres in a few days. And some rivers are, well, they're
17:27bursting their banks because of how much rain that they're seeing. So, some problems as a result of
17:31this. But I wanted to highlight something that's going on around the northwest of Australia. Now,
17:38off the northwest coast, there's actually a monsoon trough that's developing here.
17:43And what that's going to do, well, that could be quite important. And it's likely to develop
17:48into some sort of tropical cyclone. But exactly how it's going to develop, well, that's a big
17:54question mark. If I just show you this chart, and this is various plots from our models showing the
18:01position, but also the intensity of that feature that I just mentioned. And yes, there's quite a
18:07large spread. Some of them keep them out over the ocean. Some of them push them across the land.
18:13So, a large spread in the position, but also a large spread in the intensity. Now, yesterday and
18:18also even when I looked earlier on this morning, it looked like that low pressure system was going
18:24to push its way somewhere towards maybe like northwest Australia, Dampier Peninsula maybe,
18:33and make its way through. And it would be a potent feature. But actually, it would intensify further
18:41as it makes its way across land due to something called the brown ocean effect. Now,
18:46you often, usually, we have our tropical storms, our tropical cyclones, they develop over the ocean.
18:52And that's where they get their energy because of the warmth, the moisture that you get over the
18:56ocean. And then once they make landfall, because they don't have that same amount of energy
19:01available, they weaken and they become less of a feature. But that's not always the case. When you
19:06get the brown ocean effect, when you have very warm land, and also a lot of moisture around,
19:12which is the case that we have in this instance, then actually the feature can, well, maintain
19:18some of its warmth. It can even intensify further for the next few hours, maybe up to a day or so
19:24after making landfall. And that looks like it could actually occur in this instance as we go
19:29through this week. Now, that's a relatively common occurrence across parts of northern Australia.
19:34It's quite sandy ground. It's a warm time of year. And they've had a lot of heavy rain recently. So,
19:40the ground is really saturated. So, that's why the perfect ingredients were there for
19:44the brown ocean effect to occur. So, for the feature to actually perhaps even intensify further
19:49as it makes its way across land. But that's now not the most likely outcome. This was a model run.
19:56I think it was a previous model run. But it does highlight some of these reds indicate a slightly
20:04more potent low pressure center, a deeper area of low pressure. So, that was always possible.
20:10And actually, this now looks more likely. So, I think instead of pushing its way across into the
20:15land, it's more likely now to push its way a little bit further westwards first, stay out over the
20:20ocean for a little bit longer. And so, it can intensify even more over the ocean. It can deepen
20:26quite intensely. Those reds indicating, well, it's the 930 to 960 millibar hectopascal bracket.
20:33Some models hunting, it could get as low as 950, 960. So, a pretty deep area of low pressure,
20:39fairly severe tropical cyclone that could develop. And then, it would eventually make
20:44landfall. And it will bring some heavy rain, some strong winds. Now, fortunately,
20:47this part of Australia, not very populated. So, the impacts won't necessarily be especially high.
20:53But nonetheless, it could be quite a potent feature. So, there were signs that it could
20:57make its way inland, brown ocean effect, and then intensify a little bit further. But it
21:02wouldn't have been as intense as what it's now looking likely to be, albeit staying over the
21:07sea for a little bit longer before making its way towards land. And then, if that happens,
21:13it would be so deep, the low pressure, that the brown ocean effect won't play a part in that,
21:18if that comes off. So, it would just then weaken as you would normally expect.
21:23Right. That's Australia done. Now, what else are we talking about? Ah, yes. Here we go. Did you
21:29see this spiral in the sky? No, it's not a UFO. Well, not really. This spiral in the sky, this
21:35photo was taken by Reblin 1992 in Ormskirk. Thank you very much for letting me use it today.
21:42What was it? Well, most likely, can't be 100% sure, but most likely it was actually as a result
21:47of a SpaceX rocket that was launched in America on Monday. And now, this rocket is a reusable
21:55rocket. And so, what we think is that it goes up into the sky. Well, we know that bit. It goes up
22:01and it's taking something up into the atmosphere, usually a satellite, which is then going to shoot
22:07off into orbit around the Earth. So, that rocket then goes up. And because it's a reusable rocket,
22:13part of the rocket, the part that isn't taking the satellite further, then comes back down to Earth.
22:18And at that point, it needs to then release the excess fuel that it has. And it's this that we're
22:25seeing. So, because it's so high up in the atmosphere, that excess fuel freezes because
22:30it's so cold. And because the rocket's spinning, just by the nature of its movement, that we see
22:36this spiral. So, what we're actually seeing here, this spiral, is the frozen fuel from the rocket,
22:44the SpaceX rocket that was launched on Monday. And because the sun, I think this was not too
22:51long after sunset. So, the sun's quite low down. So, it's beaming up towards this frozen ice and
22:56then reflecting off it. And so, that's why we see it. And like I say, it's because of the rotation,
23:00the spin of the rocket, that we're seeing the spiral. A lovely picture here from SHU2600
23:06in Wolverhampton as well, showing it. And it just, I mean, you could see why people questioned
23:12what it was. And lots of questions were coming our way. And lots of people wondering if it was
23:17something a bit more scary. Here's another photo from Gigolton in Lancashire. But yeah, that's what
23:22we think it is. It'd be nice if maybe SpaceX were able to comment and suggest exactly what was
23:30occurring. But let's see if we have that another time. Then, a couple of more things that I want to
23:35end you or end with today. I didn't want to show you just that just yet. I did that when I practiced
23:41as well and I knew I'd do it again. But this weekend, this Saturday morning, we are going to
23:46have a solar eclipse. In the UK, it's going to be a partial solar eclipse. But yeah, we're going to
23:51have scenes similar to this. Let's show you this map now. So, this map is from timeanddate.com.
23:56Thank you for letting me use it. Showing where the different levels of eclipse that we're going
24:05to have across different parts of the world. So, towards eastern parts of Canada, that's where
24:10we're going to get the greatest eclipse. The further east you are, the less of an eclipse you are going
24:14to be. This zone that covers the UK, that's ranging from around 50% to 30%. So, the further
24:22northwest you are in the UK, the more of an eclipse that you're likely to have. Whereas towards the
24:28southeast, a little bit less. Still 30%. Still a large chunk taken out of the sun. The time of the
24:34eclipse is going to start around 7 minutes past 10 on Saturday morning with the peak eclipse coming
24:40around 5 minutes past 11. And then for roughly the next hour, it will start to come out the other
24:47side. So, we'll see less. So, there is the chance that we could witness a partial – well, it's a
24:52pretty high chance. There is going to be a partial eclipse across the UK on Saturday morning. The
24:57further northwest you are, the greater amount you'll see ranging from, yeah, 50% to 30% across
25:03the UK. With that in mind then, I said I'd look at Saturday's weather in a little bit more detail
25:09because what are the chances weather-wise? Well, if we go back to – let's go to 11am.
25:15And, well, across much of England and Wales, a good deal of fine weather. One or two showers,
25:21but also some decent sunny breaks. So, actually, relatively good conditions for witnessing the
25:27partial solar eclipse. Obviously, please don't look up directly at the sun. That's not good for
25:31you. But unfortunately, I mentioned towards the northwest of the UK, that's where we have the
25:36greatest eclipse happening this weekend. But also, that's where we have the wettest,
25:41the windiest, the cloudiest weather. So, conditions not really favourable there for
25:45seeing the solar eclipse at the moment. Worth bearing in mind, I've already been through in
25:49quite a lot of detail. There is some uncertainty about the forecast for this coming weekend. And
25:53that does play a part in the timing of this front that has been chopping and changing a little bit.
25:57So, don't lose hope. That may be slowed down. It may even speed up and we may get the clearance
26:02a little bit earlier. In which case, you may still get a chance. So, definitely keep an eye
26:06on this if that's something that you're interested in witnessing. Then, the last thing that I wanted
26:11to leave you with today, before I go, is the fact that our clocks spring forward this weekend.
26:17Sunday morning, yes, we lose an hour of sleep, which is a lovely gift on Mother's Day. But we
26:24do get our lighter evening. So, our evenings will be markedly lighter as we head into British
26:29summertime. The other thing, though, that I wanted to mention at this time of year, we're
26:33so close to the equinox. It was last week. At the moment, we're gaining the most amount of daylight
26:39each day. But that's going to change very soon. We're going to start to gain less and less daylight
26:46each day. So, our days are going to continue to get longer, obviously, until the summer solstice
26:50in June. But actually, from now on, really, we're gaining less and less daylight each day. Why is
26:57this? Well, let's try and explain it. Now, I practiced this and it went relatively well. So,
27:01let's see if I managed to do it okay today. I'm just going to get up a random bit so I can draw
27:07a little graph for you. And here's my drawing tool. Let's use yellow. So, why is this? Well,
27:14so, the Earth is tilted on its axis. The tilt's around 23 and a half degrees. And depending on
27:21the time of year, depends on where it is in its orbit around the sun, depends whether or not the
27:25northern hemisphere is tilting towards the sun or the southern hemisphere. So, now, we've gone
27:31past the spring equinox. So, now, the northern hemisphere is tilting more to the sun. And its
27:36peak tilt in relation to the sun will be at the summer solstice. But because the Earth's orbit
27:45around the sun is relatively, it's pretty close to being circular, actually, the level of tilt
27:52relative to the sun, the change in it actually follows a sine curve kind of pattern. And so,
27:59if I draw that for you now, just in case you've forgotten your sine curves. But what we have then,
28:05if I draw on the x-axis, we have time. Apologies, my graph won't be amazing. And then if we have,
28:11here, we have angle of the tilt. And if we draw 23.5 up here, that's, there should be a point
28:18there, but it's not letting me do a point. Just, and then minus 23.5 here. And then zero here,
28:25if I just draw my zero line, roughly. And like I said, it follows a sine curve. So, it goes sort of like this.
28:35That'll do. I shouldn't have drawn that far ahead, but it doesn't matter, you get the point.
28:41And the peaks and troughs are your solstices. So, the trough, when the angle, when the northern
28:47hemisphere is furthest away from the sun, that's our winter solstice. And then the peak
28:53is our summer solstice. And what you can see is, as we get closer to the solstices, whether it's
29:00the winter one or the summer one, the rate at which the angle is changing decreases. And then it like
29:07levels out for a bit right around the equinox, sorry, the solstice. And then it speeds up again
29:12when you're furthest away from the solstice. And this is the equinox. So, this is the spring
29:17equinox in between the winter and the summer. And so, you can see around the equinox, the rate at
29:22which the angle of the tilt is relative to the sun is changing at its quickest amount. And so, that's
29:29why at this time of year, we're gaining, I think some parts gaining close to, well, I think it's
29:33about three minutes, 50 seconds, 51 seconds or so each day of daylight. But from today onwards,
29:39we're going to be gaining less and less daylight each day up until the solstice when obviously then
29:45our days will be getting shorter from that point. But that's a long way away, a few months away.
29:50Let's not worry about that for the time being. Let's just enjoy the fact that spring is here.
29:54There's some spring-like weather around at the moment. Yes, there's some wet and windy weather
29:58to come before the week's out and before we transition then into next week's high pressure.
30:03But yeah, high pressure looks pretty likely. Thank you so much for joining me. I do hope you
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30:46solar eclipse if you're able to witness it. And also enjoy the change to British
30:50summertime on Sunday morning too. Bye-bye.