Hello and welcome to Mysteries of Science.

My name's Stevie and I'm the Deputy Editor of Science and Nature, the Monthly magazine from the Team Behind the Week Junior.

And I'm Michael the Features Editor. On this show, we explore the strange phenomena and bizarre events that have left scientists scratching their heads.

We've got our waterproofs on this week as we're looking at one of the world's most powerful and mysterious forces, weather.

Yes, for hundreds of years, humans and other animals have had to learn to live with the fluctuating forces of the weather, from sunny days to stormy showers.

While many weather phenomena are understood, there are some that have left meteorologists,

those are scientists who study the weather, ripping up their forecasts, from clouds that look

like flying sources to lightning in the shape of a ball.

So come with us as we explore some weird weather.

This is Myster mysteries of science. Blimey, that was some thunderstorm.

Oh, sure was. I'm absolutely soaked, but hey, look at that, Stevie. The sun's coming out now.

Time to take the wellies off and put my shades on. As we move into spring, the weather can be

quite unpredictable, with it

raining one minute and being sunny the next. It certainly gives us plenty to talk about,

because as we know, people love nothing more than talking about the weather. Now, before

science was able to tell us what was going on with the weather, people told stories about it

instead. And you know what, Stevie, those stories continue to this day,

and they tell us a lot about the awesome and mysterious power of the weather. Hi, I'm Tamzin Mori,

and I'm the author of the Weather Weaver series. Hi, Tamzin. Welcome to the show. For those of our

listeners who haven't read The Weather Weaver books, could you please tell us what they're about?

They're set up in Shetland, which is where half of my family are from.

And the premise of the story is that weather is magical.

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