What’s the weirdest weather?

CrowdScience

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Weather: wet, dry, cold, hot, sunny, windy or downright weird - there’s nothing quite like it as a conversation starter, from Austin to Jakarta. And judging from the large volume of emails about all things meteorological in the CrowdScience inbox, there’s plenty to talk about. What’s the weirdest weather on Earth, and how big a chance is there of it happening? Why does it always seem to rain on the days when we’re not working? And – conversely – is there any way we could make it rain when and where we need it to? Presenter Anand Jagatia finds out the answers to these questions and more by bringing together a panel of experts under the CrowdScience umbrella: Prof Liz Bentley, Royal Meteorological Society; Dr Anthony Rea, World Meteorological Organization, and Dr Rebecca Buccholz, National Centre for Atmospheric Research. Presented by Anand Jagatia. Produced by Jen Whyntie for the BBC World Service

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0:36.8	Hello and welcome to Crowd Science from the BBC World Service, the show that scours the the land for answers to your science questions every week, rain or shine.
0:40.9	I'm Annan Jagatier and this week we've got a whole bunch of
0:46.9	brilliant questions on one of the most popular topics in our inbox, the
0:50.6	weather. Weather affects all of us in ways big and small which is probably why so many
0:58.2	people around the world love chatting about it. With me in the studio is chief
1:02.1	executive of the Royal Meteorological Society Professor Liz Bentley.
1:06.6	Thanks very much for joining us, Liz.
1:08.4	Is it easier or harder to talk about the weather in small talk because you're an actual meteorologist.
1:14.0	No it's easy I mean I'm obsessed by the weather as I guess a lot of people are around the world.
1:18.8	One thing people just assume because you're a meteorologist you know what the weather's going to do
1:22.4	absolutely anywhere in the world at any time and I don't know everything
1:26.0	Yeah, no, you're not their personal weather correspondent and we also have down the line from Switzerland
1:30.8	where he is director of infrastructure at the World Meteorological
1:34.3	Organization, Dr. Anthony Ray who was formerly chief data officer at the Australian Bureau of
1:40.2	Meteorology.
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