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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Forecasting Weather and Climate

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6958 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2006

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Bringing a ray of sunshine to the studio this week is Alex Hill from the London Met Office, who will be describing how meteorologists predict the weather on a daily basis, Tim Palmer reveals how understanding seasonal weather patterns can help scientists to predict outbreaks of malaria, Emily Shuckburgh discusses how faraway oceans can affect our local weather, Fran Beckerleg braves the roof of the London Weather Centre, and Sheena Elliott joins Derek Thorne in Kitchen Science to shed light on why the sky is blue. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Transcript

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0:00.0

Live from the BBC, the naked scientists.

0:07.0

This week we're looking into the science of the weather forecast or to give it its proper name meteorology how

0:14.0

a weather forecast predicted how accurate are they and also we'll be hearing from

0:17.3

researchers that have now built mathematical models of how we build up weather and

0:21.0

climate and how they can look into the future not just

0:23.2

months but years ahead to see what the weather has in store for us that's coming

0:26.9

up tonight and if you'd like to join in the discussion call me now I'm Chris

0:30.4

8459 25 2000 or you can email Chris at Naked Scientist.

0:35.0

Naked Scientist.com.

0:36.0

Also here to help present tonight's program,

0:37.8

is Dr. Cat, hello, cat.

0:39.0

Hello, we're going to be bringing you news tonight of the Fisher-Pold, the missing link between creatures

0:45.1

that lived in the sea and creatures that lived on the land.

0:48.0

Chris has been finding out about that.

0:49.7

I've been looking into snoring and who's more likely to snore than other people and

0:54.8

unfortunately we don't know whether we can stop that yet and also bringing you

0:58.8

news of an exciting writing competition for all you aspiring science writers and broadcasters out there.

1:05.0

And we also have up for grabs a trip round the Met Office because one of our guests this evening is

1:09.7

Alex Hill from the Met Office that's where they forecast the weather. We'll be talking to him later,

1:13.6

but if you win our competition this evening, then you could be off down there to join Alex and you

1:17.3

could put together your very own weather forecast as you hear on the radio. So get calling

1:21.4

now 08-59-2559 25 2000 or email Chris at naked

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