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B.B.C. Radio. At midday on car thought the amber weather warning for snow and ice has now been downgraded to yellow for West Yorkshire public transport wise critters are still commonly out throughout the region bus companies fast fast West Yorks and a river have both Theresa's to say that G 2 the ongoing conditions in the Leeds area will be operating on a main roads only basis and he won't be saving estates at this time Leeds Bradford are for its also experiencing delays today Phil Foster them all without consolations with. Working around the clock we have been all night to try to keep the real problem now is it snowed resting you know some very heavy strong winds up . So it will keep getting on with clay and actually uses the wind and there's more snow on the runway once again Well they're hoping to have the runways cleared and things up in the air right about now the snow is also taking its toll on the B.B.C. Look north big 50 PSI for challenge as well day for today has been postponed due to the extreme weather that same word GZ have had it from Bradford So how is that taking the difficult decision to perspire Today's challenge Gration says they are but the safety has to come 1st the last thing we would run is we want we want people to be falling on the ice in the snow with cutting themselves and putting other road users at risk as we make our way to the house so regrettably I'm very very unfortunately about to call it off and we're all devastated but I have to be honest with you I think most people looking at this is probably the right one to my partner in crime alongside Paul Hudson on this challenge is Amy Garcia who's been reassuring is that today's stage has only been perspiring and not cancelled well hoping to even walk it but obviously there's a group of we don't want to work cause any problems on the. Because some of it does have to go on to the road where there's no pavements and it would have just been too dangerous to do it today but we will be revisiting our route from Bradford to how Earth accelerates EST so we will definitely do at some point it just couldn't be today very annoying like divined updates about the team on the cypher on their Twitter account at B.B.C. Site for a number of people have been injured self-command that drove a car into a busy nightclub in can't the driver is believed to be asked to leave the club and get graves and one witness described as complete panic and chaos a man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder B.B.C. Radio one Xtra D.J. Rhys Parkinson was their. Family Dog was called and the Scot was caught you didn't get much in the car was in the car the Foreign Office has dismissed as a nonsense claims today that the nerve agent used to target the former Russian spy service cripple in Salzburg could have come from the U.K. In nearby done research laboratory important dying the suggestion was made by the Russian ambassador to the E.U. Near chits cough today is stop child sexual exploitation by the group in Leeds has been working with girls have been victims of C.S.E. Helping them to express themselves through art and the Wilson is from the group basis she's been telling us about the powerful exhibition at the shelling business center in her Hills they've chosen different themes as some might talk about their experience as one person has written a letter to her perpetrator saying this is what I want you to know now about me so I'm showing some hurt and emotion but also showing I'm strong now I'm going to tell you this because I know that I can say this to you so it's really really powerful stuff sports and you might believe this now is badly affecting today's fixtures Castleford Tigers Super League clash I'm to Wigan it has been called off alongside homes like against Bradford's Halifax at home to Oldham and Featherston in North Wales in the Challenge Cup so you barely say their 4th round tie I'm to late is on like the B.C.S. It's 4 minutes past 12. Hello and welcome to the pole had some other show on the B.B.C. On the show this week White Christmas or white I'll be talking about whether we're more likely to get warm. Why would a group of scientists invite an artist with them on a trip to a glass of it talking to ice. About her ice report a frozen pint of science come rain or shine or who doesn't keep an umbrella in the back of the car behaving about the history of umbrellas in the Yorkshire company which makes the steel frames do you know your. Looks well this weekend I'll be finding out exactly what to expect a hole in the heart of a stunningly beautiful cloud as long as it's 5000 light years away the Rosetta nebula has intrigued astronomers for decades now scientists have been looking into its heart Chris wearing families will be telling me what they found and I'll meet you my weather watcher of the week she's lane from us all coming up on the weather show this week and my look at the weather. Some of the show the social and kinship the milkmen ones I'm down line well this way the world said goodbye to the great physicist Stephen Hawking didn't get very many volved in the science of me a lush a provoked some controversy by criticizing President Truman's decision to pull out of the powers climate agreement he told the B.B.C. Our planet Earth could end up as hot as Venus and we'd find another planet to live on within 100 years we are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes serious or civil trumps action good. Brewing to become like the nose with a temperature of $250.00 degrees. Guess it climate change is one of a career dangerously face and it's one we can prevent if we. Lost Professor Stephen Hawking who died earlier this week later in the show be looking into space at the. Those that nebula a beautiful insta cell a cloud which is mystified scientists for years what exactly is inside the hole in the middle of the nebula are we looking forward to hearing the answers from Chris Waring from Leeds 1st with Easter just around 2 weeks away my question today is about Easter weather why are we more likely to get a white Easter than a white Christmas now that is a fact that often surprises many people I remember those Christmas cards from Dickensian Britain where snow would lie on on the footpaths on the roads for days on end amongst the Christmas period now it is true that Easter is more likely to be white than Christmas for a very simple reason that February is the coldest month of the year and actually the winter months get colder as we go through them so December is less cold in January which in turn is less cold than February and it's often the case in this country that the 1st half of winter is dominated by mild Wesley's and if we are going to get any snowy cold weather it will come as the atmosphere blocks up towards the end of February and into March and just like this sure he stays quiet early of course Good Friday is the last weekend of March this year and March is historically used to transition heavy snow falls if you remember back to the winters of 7879 in particular there was some very heavy snow falls in March so we've still got some of the remnant cold air aloft from winter but the surface is beginning to warm up and that can create instability and certainly the risk of snow so yes it is more likely that we would get a white Easter compared with a white Christmas so let's see what happens this year. The Hudson weather shuttle from the FISA. Well mine's a frozen pint of signs please not my usual order in the pub but it's the title of a project I only heart is taking part in on Wednesday Nyoman is artist in residence at Sheffield University and was invited by ice scientists on a trip to a glass ear but why would they take an artist with them and what did she find when she got to the Arctic I'm delighted to say Naomi is with me now from our studio live in Exeter how you know me very well thank you Paul thank you very much for inviting Law Thanks for joining us now let's go back to the beginning this isn't the 1st time you've been on an expedition as an artist how did you get involved in trips to the Arctic as an artist. Really kind of luck I guess I'm very lucky somebody I knew was sailing to Greenland and wanted an expedition artist on board the boat so in order to take part I had to learn to sail at the same time and we sailed from Greenland from Cornwall to the east coast of Greenland and I documented it in sketchbooks and photos on the way New your artist in residence in Sheffield and we how did you get that job how do you prefer power for that job tell us a bit about that so is the university that have to invite you it's a leave a human trust artist in residence scheme which has sadly now ended they've stopped doing this it was an amazing scheme for decades bringing artists of all kinds musicians writers visual artists into departments within the university just to see what happens to spark conversations and I was lucky enough to be invited by the geography department at the University of Sheffield probably because of a little bit of experience with ice right and yes I've been there for 10 months in the department so they've given me my own office come studio and I was lucky enough to be invited by professors and what's not to smile bad last August to join him on his research and teaching there for a month or next question because I want to know what it was like when you went to Scandinavia What did you. Find What inspired you it's incredible So the further north you go the more amazing it gets there's 24 hour daylight in August so for the whole of the summer it's basically just one long day which means that you basically don't want to go to sleep you can go for a walk in the middle of the night and it's absolutely fine you constructively and well I mean does the sun never sets or is it just very low on the horizon No it doesn't set for months I think the 24th of August was the 1st day that it set for a few seconds and then it rises again but for the summer it's it's day like the sun is up the whole time you can follow it around the sky and it's quite incredible it has a strange effect on on you what type of effect does it have on your disease I mean obviously you struggle to sleep but it does give you more energy it must be quite weird getting used to that yeah it is I mean you have to force yourself to go to bed and I have to kind of you know stick a T. Shirt over my head. But you know you have more energy you want to be outside more it does make it milder so the temperatures were only around 0 or about 6 degrees so not as cold as you usually imagine the Arctic obviously in the polar night during December in the Arctic then it goes down to minus 40 which I'm not sure I could cope with but I'd love to try well how did you represent 100 years of change in the Arctic as an artistic project I mean we all know the Arctic ice now is in a pretty rapid decline based on satellite data just tell us about how you've gone about that so the interesting thing about far apart is the human history there and for over 400 years people have been mining coal so that's obviously directly linked they are still mining coal today I actually went down a working coal mine where they're pulling out coal directly underneath an ice cap which And the Hudson is measuring how fast the ice is melting off the top so there's a strange sort of history of you know human interaction with. Arctic and how we're affecting it so I try to look at this with straw using coal in my paintings looking at the histories and the people and how the scientists and other people work in the landscape is there a crossover between art and science very definitely I think it was really interesting to see how we think that we're very different but actually working and following scientists around there were quite often just stop in the landscape and look at something and say oh that's interesting I wonder what why that is I wonder what that does I wonder why that happens and artists that I know are the same we're simply curious about the world and we use slightly different methods in order to try and learn about the world and expand our knowledge that's all so it was very very easy to talk to the scientists and they were very open and welcoming Now you've obviously got close links with Sheffield through your work at the university and what else have you been involved in during your year as artist in residence for Sheffield University so I gave a seminar to the geography department I also spoke at the Royal Geographical Society last Friday with one of my colleagues Dr Joe Cook who organized a big evening there so that was fascinating being in that sort of prestigious environment and next week I think you mentioned I'm about to do a talk at the frozen pint of science yes quite weird being an artist talking to science 1st yeah I mean that's on the 21st of March you just tell others what plans you have for the future so the next thing after this I'm bringing this exhibition down to Art Week Exeter which will be the 22nd to the 28th of May I hope to tour the exhibition to all sorts of I science departments or in the U.K. And Europe so people I now have contacts with and I'm really really trying to get on an expedition to the Antarctic so if anybody has any contacts out there I'd be happy to hear from you rival I'm sure people will get in touch but for now and I own my heart thank you so much for joining us and just a reminder of. Frozen pint of science takes place in Sheffield Wednesday and again lights in May Nyoman thank you so much for joining us thank you very much for having me full. On. With. FISA. Well I saw about the Aqua looks now it's happening this weekend I'm delighted to say Alex per kill is joining us live from the Met Office in Exeter How are you Alex I'm very good Paul how are you I'm all right thank you now this is caused a lot of confusion already this morning on Twitter and social media in general people getting confused between the looks and the equi knocks the equi looks is happening this weekend so just teller's what 1st of all what's the difference between the Aqua knocks and the looks right yet there's a lot of confusion around in part it comes from what we're taught at school to be honest so a lot of us are taught economics is when the nights and days become equal and in spring then days will become longer the nights and that's because that's when the sun passes over the equator exactly the equator on the economics but that's not until Tuesday and what we have this weekend is the Aqua lox that's when days are actually equal. And there is a slight difference in those days right why why is it that we we we see that the day is as long as the night and yet that's not when the sun passes the equator which is the definition of their queen ox correct so the reason why we have a slight difference is because the sun actually appears as a disk in the sky right and so although the even once the center of the sun is around the horizon we've still got a little bit of the sun that's still popping over the top both at sunset and at sunrise so that extends the length of the days as well as that we've also got a little bit of light refracting in the atmosphere and so what that means is we generally get around 10 extra minutes of daylight then you might expect as a result even when you know astronomically it might suggest that days and nights will be exactly equal when you take those 2 things into account the day when day and night is equal comes a little bit earlier in spring OK what about this notion and I get this all the time all the time 21st of March is the queen ox 21st of June is the solstice 21st of September is the ox and 21st of December is the winter solstice that is not necessarily correct is it can vary it can be the 22nd or the 20 why of people run away with the idea that it's always on the 21st is a tough one that you're right it varies the spring it cannot be the 20th 21st in fact this year is the 20th Oh that's interesting so the aqueducts issue is 20th of March and not the 21st correct you know like this Tuesday it's I think it's just because it's most often on the 21st so that's what people remember and people you know in the meterological world Spring started on the 1st of March but for most other people spring starts on the spring economics and so people remember that date and it is what we're taught at school that from this date on words nights will be sure. Better than days when as as I've just said it's not actually true it's also worth bearing in mind the air collects actually changes depending on your latitude OK So depending on how far north you are depends on how early before the economics and spring the actually come so it varies across the world so while some what was the U.K.'s having it this weekend other places have already had it so are let's get this straight then because Yorkshire of course is the world when is the Aqua looks the economics is Sunday so you look see Sundays are equal day an equal nice Sunday it's not quite equal so has around 12 hours one minute of daylight so you'll have just passed it but it's definitely safe to say from Sunday on words days will be longer than night while they are pure I because I know what our audience alike especially in Yorkshire they'll be at the Love the stopwatch is out and will be complaining to me saying you said it was going to be a minute longer and it was 38 seconds but joking aside so and then we've got the spring Acqui knocks on Tuesday the 20th of March and this is another contentious issue because of course climatologically it's the 1st of March but actually the true technical definition of the start of spring is when the sun moves across the equator into the northern hemisphere or should I say to be technically correct the earth moves so that the sun is in the northern hemisphere is that true Yeah because right the sun's not really moving as much as the but right it's a lot easier for our point of view to think of the Sun moving rather than the Earth and you know the reason why meteorology we have we set spring is starting on the 1st of March it's just for a record sake so that you're always comparing like with like and there's no inconsistency when you're looking at back data and I'll tell you why in a list of things that wind our audience up across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire above of course getting the forecast wrong number 2 it's closely followed. He's messing about with when the season starts all not every year we get the same Alex I think you have. You've clarified that with beauty Personally yeah I mean I'm a meteorologist so obviously I think spring starts on the 1st of yeah but I like it because it comes out. Felt like spring so. Perhaps not necessarily being the case Pollock's it's been brilliant some show our audience now definitely know what the differences between the Aqua looks and the economics and then we're talking about Friday nights goodness knows what that conversation will be like after a few pints. Only time will tell Alex thank you so much for joining us from the Met Office thanks. I am glad. Let's talk umbrellas whatever the weather Comes Sunshine all rain there are brawlers of all shapes and sizes back in 1958 this country house in the 1st ever umbrella fashion show with a headstart over other countries whether those Britons umbrella makers stage their 1st ever fashion show in London and feature styles like this picture which really as writers write for those who like singing in the rain there's a musical box umbrella with the music coming from a can isn't concealed in the pan it strikes a new note in umbrella passions. If you don't count as do have a silver lining in this mint trimmed gold lamé motto and raise stormy issues a matching mouth is attached to the real enamel hat whatever the weather forecast Britain's umbrella manufacturers are certainly making the best of it

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