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What is rain bunching and what is going on with the polar vortex? Is there more rain to come this week? Just how warm and wet has February been? All these questions are answered in this weeks Deep Dive
Bringing you this deep dive is Met Office meteorologist Alex Deakin.
What is rain bunching and what is going on with the polar vortex? Is there more rain to come this week? Just how warm and wet has February been? All these questions are answered in this weeks Deep Dive
Bringing you this deep dive is Met Office meteorologist Alex Deakin.
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00:00 More rain to come this week. Just what is going on in the stratosphere and how warm
00:07 has February been? How wet has February been? Also, standing waves and rain bunching. There
00:14 is so much going on in this week's Met Office Deep Dive. Thank you very much for joining
00:20 me. Thank you for being there. Thank you for watching. Do hit the like button and do us
00:24 a favor. My name is Alex Deakin. Welcome along. I am talking to you from Met Office headquarters
00:31 in Exeter in Devon. If you've not seen a Met Office Deep Dive before, we talk about the
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00:54 As I said, please do hit like and please also comment. Now, later on, after I've recorded
00:59 this, I'm going to be in the comments probably from about half four to about five o'clock.
01:03 So if you're watching there, if you've watched it and got some questions, got some comments,
01:07 join me in the comments section. But if you're watching this later on, don't worry. Please
01:11 keep your comments coming. We will go through them. We do read them all and try and reply
01:15 to them. Comments about anything. If you've got your suggestions for future deep dives,
01:21 anything like that, please do put them in the comments section. Right. As I said, a
01:26 lot to get through. We'll start with the bigger picture. Start with the satellite image. Over
01:30 the last five days, look at the swirls of cloud, low pressure systems moving up between
01:34 the UK and Greenland. And all of our weather as a result has been coming up from the southwest.
01:42 When the air is coming up from the southwest, it's traveling over the Atlantic, big massive
01:47 water. And it's also coming up from a warmer, more tropical direction. That is why it has
01:53 been so mild and pretty wet over recent times. In fact, almost for the entirety of February,
02:00 you might say. And swell. We'll see a little bit of a change later this week, but not a
02:04 significant change. Why are we stuck in this weather pattern? Well, as you might imagine,
02:11 if you've watched the deep dives before, it's kind of to do with the jet stream and the
02:14 position of the jet stream. It's at the moment a little more south shifted than usual. If
02:20 we play through the sequence, it kind of stays in that way. The jet stream, that fast moving
02:25 river of air high up in the atmosphere that dictates our weather patterns. It's just pushing
02:30 low pressure systems just to the north of the UK and the weather fronts are bringing
02:35 us the rain. Later this week, it becomes even more south shifted. It's just dipping down
02:41 to the south through Wednesday and particularly let's fast forward it a little bit by the
02:45 time we get into Thursday. So now the jet's really dipping down here. We've got this trough
02:51 then sitting over the UK. There's dip in the jet stream. That's a breeding ground for more
02:56 areas of low pressure to come in. Plenty of ice bars on the chart. So, yes, through the
03:01 rest of this week, further spells of wet and windy weather are definitely on the cards.
03:07 Let's take a look at the rainfall then, because actually for many of us, Monday was a dry
03:11 day and it's still dry out there on Tuesday across a good chunk of central and eastern
03:16 England. We do have this weather front bringing some rain that's pushing further south and
03:20 that will continue, but it's kind of fizzling out as it does so. That first band of rain
03:25 it then weakens. But then look at this, more rain coming in through Wednesday. It's going
03:30 to be a very wet night across much of the West Tuesday night into Wednesday night. Plenty
03:35 more rain to come. Look at those brighter colours over the hills in particular. More
03:39 on that in a moment. And then once that's out of the way, we get this nasty looking
03:44 line of showers coming in. Let's play through this because this is quite a nasty looking
03:49 line, quite a narrow line. But just look how those brighter colours there. You can see
03:54 that line almost as it crosses the Midlands towards eastern England. Some uncertainty
03:58 about the timing and exactly how that progresses, but this could be, it's called a squall line.
04:05 That's a brighter colour. Let's just rewind it a little bit. See this really narrow line
04:09 in there. That's a signal the winds are changing direction rapidly across this weather front
04:15 and this strong wind veer generates really strong gusts of wind and a really short burst
04:20 of very heavy rain as that moves through. So watch out for that as we go through, particularly
04:24 the first part of Thursday, especially over central and eastern parts of England. There
04:28 is a bit of uncertainty about how that progresses, but it will bring us, say, a spell of pretty
04:34 lively rain once it's crossed through. Once that's out of the way, remember the jet stream's
04:39 dipping to the south now, so we're in the colder air. We're properly on the cold side
04:43 of the jet. So it has been a very warm February so far. Again, more on that in a moment. But
04:48 as that weather front moves through, it will be introducing cooler air. I'm going to put
04:53 the freezing level on now. The freezing level is how high up you have to go through the
04:59 atmosphere, how high up in the sky you have to get before you get to zero Celsius. And
05:04 at the moment, it's pretty mild across the UK. You can just make out Scotland there.
05:09 There's Northern Ireland, East Anglia there. We're in this dark green zone, which is the
05:15 freezing level is at least 1,400 metres up. You've got to go 1.4 kilometres up through
05:21 the sky before you get to zero Celsius. But that will change as we go through the next
05:27 few days. Pulses of colder air try and push in across Scotland. And then as that active
05:31 front swings across the country during Thursday, notice not only are you going to see quite
05:36 a strong wind there, but you're also going to see quite a drop in temperatures. And the
05:40 freezing level behind that will suddenly start to drop, so that by the time we get to the
05:44 end of Thursday, most of the UK are in this bluer zone. So the freezing level is 400 to
05:50 600 metres. And across Scotland and even Northern Ireland, the freezing level's dropped to only
05:55 200 metres. So you're going to have to go 200 metres up before you get to zero Celsius,
05:59 which means as the showers come in across Northern Scotland, we will start to see some
06:03 snow returning at least to some of the higher routes here during the course of Thursday.
06:09 Nothing unusual about that. It's February snow in Scotland, but because it has been
06:13 so mild, well, it's a little bit of a change from the norm. And even across parts of North
06:18 Wales and Northern England, on the tops of the hills, we could see a little bit of winteriness
06:23 in the showers that come in on Friday. So it's turning a little colder, emphasis on
06:28 the 'er'. Temperatures later this week just going to be back closer to average. But because
06:32 it has been so mild, you probably will notice the difference. Let's go back to the rainfall
06:39 though, because as I said, plenty going on with this. As the rain comes in tonight again,
06:44 especially in the West, we do have Met Office warning in place for this. There's the, yeah,
06:53 yellow warning for tonight and into tomorrow morning. It's just gone out the warning area,
06:58 out the warning time, because it's, it's from midnight until 12. So in this zone, we could
07:04 easily see 15, 25 millimeters of rain quite widely. I'm more than double that on some
07:11 of the hills. Now that is not a huge amount of rainfall for this part of the world to
07:15 fall in 24 hours though. The key thing is it has been so wet. So that is likely to cause
07:22 some further flooding issues over parts of Wales, South Wales and extending up into the
07:28 mountains of North Wales and also across the Southwest of England. So we do have that Met
07:32 Office yellow warning in place for tonight and tomorrow morning, Tuesday night into Wednesday
07:37 morning for that heavy rain, because as I said, it could cause some, certainly some
07:41 local flooding and there'll be a lot of spray and surface water on the roads. So the roads
07:45 like the M5 in particular, the M4 in South Wales, not great for that morning commute
07:50 on Wednesday morning. Now let's go back to the rain because I want to show you something
07:56 really quite cool here with the rainfall and the way that it's going to fall. Notice the
08:01 winds coming in from the Southwest. This band of rain is kind of fizzling out as we go through
08:05 this afternoon into this evening. But this next pulse of rain as it comes in really quite
08:10 interesting. The heavier rain, let's zoom right in on that actually. Heavier rain, the
08:16 brighter colors, the oranges, the yellows and the reds. Notice there's a kind of stripy
08:21 pattern down here. So this is, you can make Plymouth out there, there's Cardiff, this
08:25 is Devon Corn. So the air's coming up hitting Dartmoor. You'll notice here, so you get some
08:29 heavier rain over the hills. You'd expect that, but then there's almost like a double
08:33 stripe, another zone of heavier rain here and another one of heavier rain. And that
08:38 is because we're seeing the hills, the moors generating a bit of a wave going on. So the
08:45 air is rising, it's falling, it's rising and it's falling. And as it's rising, it's cooling,
08:49 it's condensing and it's dropping more rain. So you get this kind of striped pattern, not
08:53 just on here, but also I can show you in an other model out. This is the accumulation
08:59 of rainfall. And again, just about make out the Southwest here, but it's also happening
09:04 further North, of course, Northern England, these kind of lines of rain where the air
09:08 is going up and coming down. You get the bouncing effects over the hills. It's going to kind
09:14 of show that in a bit of a drawing. So you've got the hill here and you've got the air rising
09:24 and going up over the hills. Let's do that as an arrow. So the air goes up over the mountain
09:33 and it comes back down the other side, but it doesn't stop there. It then goes up again
09:37 and it forms a wave. So every time you've got the air going up, it's cooling, it's condensing
09:43 and it's falling as rain. So you get more rainfall on this side. Then you get a drier
09:50 slot because the air is descending and then you get more rain again as the air starts
09:53 to go back up again. So you're going to get this standing wave pattern. That's reasonably
09:59 common, happens pretty frequently in setups like this, where you have this, the winds
10:04 kind of pushing in a very uniform direction over the mountains. You get heavy rain on
10:10 this side of the mountains. You get a drier slot on the lee side of the mountains. And
10:15 then you get another pulse of rain as the air starts to bounce up once again. That's
10:19 a standing wave. But now we're going to go, this is why it's called the deep dive. We're
10:25 going to go really deep now into a brand new paper that my colleague, Nick Silkstone, put
10:32 me onto this morning. Now, Nick is deputy chief here at the Met Office. Very, very clever
10:38 guy, always looking for trends, always looking for interesting meteorological tidbits. And
10:41 he spotted that this pattern set up this morning is highly likely to be being enhanced, the
10:49 stripy nature of the rain, not just by that standing wave, but also by something else.
10:58 And this something else has been highlighted by a former colleague of ours, Eddie Carroll,
11:02 in this brand new paper that you can see in Edusphere. Eddie Carroll used to be a chief
11:08 meteorologist here at the Met Office. Not anymore, but a very, very clever guy and he's
11:13 still heavily involved in meteorology. And he has been looking at the way standing waves
11:20 impacted the rainfall that fell over the Lake District in December 2015. A lot of heavy
11:27 rainfall, there was serious, serious flooding. And I'm going to show you this diagram now.
11:34 This is from that paper because this is really, really interesting. Blew my mind when I saw
11:38 this this morning. Now, okay, bear with me because it's a pretty complicated diagram.
11:42 So you go back to, if you really want to study it, that's the title of the paper. So you
11:47 can go and find it for yourself online. But this diagram particularly struck with me today.
11:53 Now this is a cross section across the Lake District. These are the hills and the mountains.
12:02 This is in kilometres along the bottom. It's a cross section of the atmosphere going up
12:07 through the atmosphere here. Now the darker shading, the dark greys and the blacks, that
12:13 is where the air is rising. So that's speed of the air in metres per second. So the darker
12:19 shade is where the air is rising. And as you expect that, I should have said the wind is
12:24 blowing this way. The general wind direction is from left to right. In this case, it was
12:29 a westerly, so west to east. So the air is hitting the mountains and it's rising. And
12:34 that's what the dark greys and the black is suggesting here. Then as it's coming down
12:38 the other side, the air is descending. It's descending where it's white and the pale grey
12:44 and then it's rising again because you've got more hills and mountains here. Now, the
12:48 key thing here is this purple line, which is the freezing level or in this case, more
12:54 relevant to think of it as the melting level. So as snow is falling, it's hitting this line,
13:00 which is around zero Celsius and it's turning back to rain. And the line here, notice the
13:05 freezing level in this cross section actually drops here because the air is rising. The
13:10 rising air is also cooling as well as it's condensing, which is meaning that the freezing
13:15 level drops. So as you're going up the hill, actually the freezing level will start to
13:21 drop. And then as you go down the hill with the air descending, the freezing level starts
13:26 to rise once more. So this is the line at which snow turns to rain. And that's dictated
13:34 by these dotted lines, which you can just about make out here. So anything above this
13:38 purple line is snow. Anything below it is rain. Now, here's the crucial thing. Snow
13:44 falls slower than rainfall. You'll have noticed that if you've ever seen any snow. I haven't
13:50 been a lot of it around this winter, but you will notice that snow, because it's bigger,
13:54 it's a larger mass, falls slower than rain. So the trajectory of snow in these dotted
14:01 lines here along the path. And as you get to the air here, it's actually starting to
14:09 rise. So what you see is the snow coming down, hits the melting level and it rains. And it
14:14 rains. The rain comes down at a steeper angle because it's heavier. It falls faster. But
14:20 what happens, because you've got this dip in the freezing level, you get this kind of
14:26 zone here where the snow isn't melting. It's just continuing to travel on its way until
14:31 it hits, until it intersects here with that rising freezing level again. So you get a
14:36 more concentrated area where the snow turns into rain. And as a result, down here, you
14:42 get an enhancement of the rain. So you get that enhancement of the rain anyway, because
14:46 the air is going up. But you get a double enhancement. You get that secondary boost
14:50 because of the way it interacts. You get a shadow where there isn't as much precipitation.
14:56 And also you get this enhancement, this secondary enhancement, rainfall bunching, that's called.
15:01 And that's in a brand new paper, I say, by Eddie Carroll. Go and check it out if you
15:05 want to. It's really, really fascinating. Blew my mind this morning. Special thanks
15:09 to Nick from the guidance unit upstairs for pointing that out to me. We'll try and maybe
15:13 put a link to it in the chat as well if we can. And that's kind of shown here. But this
15:18 is the real time data for what's going on with the rainfall tonight and tomorrow morning
15:24 across the southwest. So we've got Devon and Cornwall here. The black lines are the
15:28 freezing level. And the colored zones are where the air is descending. Again, it's that
15:34 vertical velocity. But now we're looking down. Instead of a cross section, we're looking
15:38 down at Devon and Cornwall. And you can see where they're corresponding with the descending
15:42 air and the gradient of the freezing level is changing. You get those two or three different
15:48 zones there, of course, South Devon in particular, which should, fingers crossed for me, are
15:53 my cycle to work in the morning. Meaning that in Exeter, where I am, there will be a bit
15:59 of a rain shadow. And hopefully the rain won't be as heavy here as it will be in other parts
16:04 as shown here. So we're in this little zone here in Exeter. Hopefully we have a rain shadow
16:09 here, whereas the rain will be pretty heavy across South Devon, down towards Plymouth.
16:14 And again, in this next zone, somewhere across Dorset and Somerset. So we're really interested
16:20 to see if that happens. And again, you can see similar patterns of it further north across
16:23 the UK as well. So yeah, fascinating meteorology that'll be happening on Wednesday morning
16:28 across the UK. Wow, that was good, wasn't it? Right, what are we talking about next?
16:35 Let's go and look at the longer term and the longer range forecast. Let's get rid of the
16:41 jet stream because, well, no, let's put the jet stream back on actually, because what
16:46 we're going to see, we see this dip in the jet stream towards Friday. We're in the colder
16:50 air, lots of showers around. What happens at the weekend will be determined by what
16:55 happens out here. Complex interactions between a couple of areas of low pressure and the
16:59 jets, it's a bit all over the place. It's kind of splitting, bifurcating here. And that
17:04 adds to complications with this area of low pressure as we see over the next few days
17:11 how that then topples around and then drives back down and comes towards the UK as we head
17:17 towards Saturday and Sunday. That complex interaction with the jet splitting. And the
17:22 models aren't in complete agreement with where this low pressure will go as we head into
17:26 Sunday. And it could be, depending on how it interacts with the jet stream, it could
17:31 get picked up and spun up into quite a nasty looking area of low pressure. Some models
17:35 have been doing that for Sunday. So it is something that we need to watch. But at the
17:40 moment, there is quite a lot of uncertainty. And this is the spread. These are the postage
17:46 stamps, the model output when we run the many, many times from what we call an ensemble forecast.
17:51 So instead of just looking at one computer model, you run it many, many times and you
17:55 get lots of different solutions from which you can work out a kind of probability of
18:00 or a chance of what certain things are going to happen. Now, if you look at these top ones,
18:04 you probably can't see them very well. So I can go full screen maybe on this. You can
18:07 see those top ones. They're all pretty much in agreement. There'll be some heavy. I should
18:11 have said these are all showing where it's going to rain on Sunday. And you can see that
18:15 heavy rain in agreement there across those top four. But then if you look at number 13,
18:20 for example, that's an agreement with a lot of heavy rain. But you look at number 23 or
18:24 number 32. They both have pretty much dry conditions across the South. So there is quite
18:30 a lot of a range of spread because of that complex interaction with the jet stream, how
18:35 that low pressure will manifest itself. Nothing too unusual about that. Again, we're talking
18:39 five days ahead. You wouldn't expect a detailed forecast at this stage for for Sunday. But
18:44 do keep up to date with the forecast for Sunday, particularly if you live in the South, because
18:48 there could be some more wet and windy weather on the way. Annie is doing the 10 day trend.
18:55 She will have more on that tomorrow, no doubt. Right. Where should we go next? Let's have
19:01 a quick look at February so far, because as we've been discussing, it has been wet and
19:07 very, very wet, but also very, very mild. And there is more rain to come and there is
19:13 a dip in the temperatures to come, but only closer to average. But this graph again, we've
19:19 shown these before on the deep dive showing the cumulative temperature throughout February.
19:24 So each day we mark on the average mean temperature and you can plot that across the month and
19:31 compare it to the average and compare it to previous records. And I'm showing this one
19:35 because notice the last couple of days, you just jump right up to that red line, which
19:39 is the highest we have recorded. So getting close to what it is close to record breaking
19:44 values for the mean temperature across February so far. Still plenty of time to go. Extra
19:50 day this year as well. So still 10 days ago. So that can change. But at the moment, we
19:55 are running close to record breaking values for February. This is with the data up to
20:00 the 19th. So up to yesterday. Temperature distribution across... I don't want to show
20:06 that one. That was a bit of a tease, wasn't it? For some sudden stratospheric warming
20:12 action. What I wanted to show here was this temperature map. So quite a range across the
20:17 country, but notice Northern Scotland in the whites there at the top, that's the only area
20:22 where temperatures are close to average so far. The rest of the UK in the pinks and the
20:28 reds and the dark red there. I know that dark red offends some people, but it is extreme
20:33 this and we have dark blue for when it's cold extreme, but it isn't cold. It's been very
20:38 warm. So that's why we have the dark red colors there covering Eastern and Central England,
20:43 indicating that temperatures are running three and a half degrees above average in these at
20:48 least. And as you saw earlier, that mean temperature is even higher than that. Similar maps for
20:55 where we've seen the heaviest rainfall as well. And in particular, that blue, that darker
21:00 blue zone, that is where we've had 200 percent of the average February rainfall. So we've
21:06 had twice the monthly average already. And again, that is with data up to yesterday.
21:13 So still 10 days to go up to the 29th. That zone there, Lincolnshire down towards Cambridgeshire,
21:20 twice the monthly average rainfall on anywhere that's blue has already had 125 percent of
21:25 the February rainfall. You'd expect it to be around 66 percent. So you'd expect it to
21:29 be in this brown, this pale brown color at the stairs because there is still 10 days
21:33 to go. So that would be bang on average. But all the rest of the UK are already above the
21:38 average in many places have already had their month's worth of rainfall. As I said, some
21:42 parts have already had twice their monthly rainfall average. So it has been very mild.
21:50 It's also been pretty wet. OK, let's change tack now and take a look at what's going on
21:56 in the stratosphere, or rather has been going on in the stratosphere, because it has been
22:01 a little bit bonkers. Don't take my word for that, though, because Dr. Simon Lee on Twitter
22:08 also thinks to think so. Simon Lee is a world leading expert in the polar vortex and sudden
22:14 stratospheric warming. You should follow him on X as it now is regularly posting about
22:21 what's going on high up in the stratosphere. Really interesting guy. Really, really fascinating
22:26 post on that. So follow him on Twitter on X. That was his post from a couple of days
22:31 ago. This winter's Arctic stratospheric polar vortex is, to be honest, a bit bananas. So
22:37 there you go from the experts. It's a bonkers year for the polar vortex. What has been going
22:43 on? If you watched last week's with Annie, you'll know that we were expecting the winds
22:48 to reverse in the polar vortex. Now, this is all tied in with sudden stratospheric warming
22:55 or SSW. Now, sudden stratospheric warming is where the air high up in the stratosphere
23:02 above the North Pole suddenly jumps up in temperature. Now, that's useful in some ways
23:08 because it's indicative of what's going on with the polar vortex. But we're really, really,
23:12 really interested in what's going on more to do with the polar vortex than actually
23:16 the temperature. The fact that the temperature suddenly jumps up is just an indication that
23:21 the polar vortex is weakening or is being displaced. What's the polar vortex? Well,
23:28 that is the winds kind of like form a doughnut, strong winds around the North Pole. Happens
23:35 every winter due to what's going on high up in the atmosphere. You set up these strong
23:40 winds that spin around the North Pole throughout the winter. What can happen is that that can
23:47 get displaced, dislodged, just messed around with. When that happens, you see a sudden
23:52 spike in temperatures. But more importantly, when the polar vortex gets messed around with
23:58 or changes shape or gets a little bit out of shape, that can, in some cases, lead to
24:06 effects lower down towards the atmosphere and have impacts across the UK. There is a
24:13 link between when sudden stratospheric warming happens and an increased chance of seeing
24:20 blocking weather patterns, which is an increasing chance of seeing easterly winds, which is
24:24 why people get excited about it because it can lead to snowier conditions. But it doesn't
24:29 always, as has been the case this year. And the polar vortex in particular, as with Simon
24:35 Lee said earlier, has been particularly crazy this year. And it's showing no signs of becoming
24:40 even less bonkers because we've seen this graph. This is what-- Annie showed a version
24:46 of this last week that was suggesting that the winds around the polar vortex would reverse
24:51 temporarily. They did, but really, really briefly. And now this blue line is showing
24:56 that they are recovering. So the polar vortex is getting back up to speed. And in the next
25:01 week or so, it's expected to get back up to here and close to the average. Now, this red
25:05 line is the average wind speed of the polar vortex as we go through March and towards
25:11 April. Notice it's dropping off because that's what happens. As you go through to spring,
25:16 the polar vortex dies, if you like. The tilt of the Earth means it all warms up and you
25:21 don't get that polar vortex anymore. It sets up every autumn, and it goes away every spring.
25:27 And that's the mean line, the average line of those winds showing you that it's dipping
25:31 off. But what's happening here is quite interesting. With this year's polar vortex, it is now
25:35 picking up speed again, but it is expected to dip back down again and really start to
25:39 weaken or at least wobble significantly. And it never looks like recovering after that.
25:45 So there is a decent chance this could be the end of the polar vortex this season. Even
25:52 with it dropping back down, though, cold fanatics, snowmantics, don't get too excited because
25:58 even if it does drop down like this, it'll be a couple of weeks before we see any effects
26:03 because it's all got to ripple down from the stratosphere. Remember, this is going on high
26:06 up in the stratosphere. It all has to come down through the atmosphere, and that takes
26:11 a couple of weeks, and by which stage we will be into the middle or latter part of March.
26:16 It's going to be very, very hard for us to get anything colder, significantly colder
26:22 with Arctic air or anything like that, or cold conditions of cold Arctic air coming
26:27 back across the UK. So don't get too excited. But what this does show is that we've seen
26:32 a few of these episodes with the polar vortex weakening a few times through the winter,
26:36 and this could be an early death of the polar vortex happening potentially in the early
26:43 part of March when normally the polar vortex doesn't die until the middle of April.
26:47 If you want more on that, as I say, go and follow Simon Lee on Twitter/X. And there's
26:53 also a video about what the polar vortex is and sudden stratospheric warming on our other
26:58 YouTube channel, Learn About Weather. We will put a link to that in the chat as well, no
27:03 doubt. Did I want to say anything else? I'm not sure I did. I think that's pretty much
27:08 it for this week. Thank you so much for being there. Thank you for watching. Got any questions,
27:13 got any comments? I will be in the chat, as I say, from about half past four to five o'clock.
27:17 But even if you're watching later than that, please do keep your comments coming, and I'll
27:21 dip in and out over the next few days and try and answer some of those comments. We
27:25 would love your feedback. I would really love you to hit the like button. That does us a
27:29 big, big favor. It spreads the word, and it means we can keep doing more and more of these.
27:34 Big shout out again to my former colleague, former chief Eddie Carroll. So you can go
27:39 and check out that paper once more. And also to Nick Silkstone, deputy chief upstairs.
27:43 We'll have to bring him in one day for a chat. We've talked about him and Dan Harris and
27:48 the other deputy chiefs who really do help us out with these deep dives. Big shout out
27:54 to Simon, who's next door and doing all the camera work as well. I know that you just
27:59 see me and Aidan and Annie and Alex, but there's a bit of a team of us here in the content
28:04 team that have to put these things together, and it doesn't just come together. Miraculously,
28:10 takes a bit of work from the whole team, the whole content team. So big shout out to Simon
28:13 Hammond, who is running things next door right now. But that's it from me for this week.
28:19 Join Annie tomorrow on the 10-Day Trend. Goodbye.