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