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Hello, this week we're stuffing our suitcases with your holiday questions.

Coming up, why do we get heat waves?

Should we really, we, on a jellyfish sting and why

does the sun bring out freckles I'm Chris Smith and this is the naked scientist

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Let me introduce the panel of people who are going to help me to answer your science

questions this week. With us is Jim Bacon. He's from Weather Quest. There are Weather

Forecasting and Weather Analysis Company and listeners to the naked scientists in the long term will recognize Jim because about

we think 12 years ago isn't it Jim you lent us your particular office at the University of East Anglia to make a special edition of the program during the

British Science Association Festival when we came to Norwich.

That's right, long while ago now it seems.

The weather's a lot better since then, isn't it?

So that's gone very well.

Indeed. Well anyway,

well, well, we'll come back 12 years later. You're going to answer

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