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And the snow still causing problems on public transport no service on East Midlands Trains between Sheffield and Stockport no service on NO them between Hazelgrove and Buxton also up between new mill central in Sheffield delays and cancellations on transparent unexpressed between Stockport and Sheffield because of poor weather and services suspended on the super tram between headings park and Meadowhall into change because of the Atlas weather if you spot a problem call is on the jammed arching line Oh double 14561212 more in 30 minutes broadcasting to South Yorkshire and snow also television this is B.B.C. Radio Sheffield. Snow and ice are causing difficult driving conditions across much of South Yorkshire and North Darbyshire he's wise not to travel unless you absolutely have to with the A recommending you have at least half a tank of petrol and keep a blanket in the car bus routes we're told will be back on when it's safe to do so the bus companies across the region liaising with the local authority gritting contract as make money reports some of the roads around Sheffield city center getting back to the block of charm but where they were previously whited out a very different picture a soon as you leave central areas though and all the hills abandoned cars are now causing problems for greatest There are some disrupted services on the rail between Sheffield Manchester a minibus services are running or they're stopping short of their normal final destination and terminus but only for B.B.C. Radio Sheffield news in Sheffield city center the shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said that he agrees with the prime minister that the Russian state is to blame for the Souls brain nerve agent attack His comments follow a criticism of the Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn and his proven failure to fully endorse to raise the maize position the police cordon is due to be. Sydney Street in Sheffield city center around now the road has been blocked off to the public between Matilda street and a Randall street overnight and this morning with a police car posted at either end staff at the birdhouse coffee shop tell us they were allowed past the cordon so they could prepare to open up the police on site are not saying anything about the incident as yet nothing is being reported to the media police at least 13 people were injured when a man drove a car into a marquee at a nightclub in Gravesend in Kent there were a number of broken bones but no life threatening injuries a 21 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder charities may have lost out on hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations because clothes recycling banks are being taken by operators the textile recycling is up to 20 banks are reported missing every week Patel works for a company in Mansfield that processes donated clothing for charities he says that bins have been removed from car parks they will place the code in my next hours without permission from the landlord or the charity and when they are through the removal notice they take it upon themselves to remove ours with theirs the damage is immense because it's going imagine one clothing bank for us to replace cost the company in excess of 70 pounds and the process can take any up to 3 weeks in which case the charity has lost 5 and 600 pounds. There's a health campaign in Sheffield called Gulp which stands for give up laughing pope free schools are taking part in people's along with their families are encouraged to ditch drinking fizzy pope which can contain high sugar levels and play a role in developing diabetes sport and a gold and bronze in the women's visually impaired slalom means Britain and the Winter Paralympics with 7 medals Paralympics G.B. Have now met their target of between 6 to 12 medals in South Korea B.B.C. Radio Sheffield news and sport it's 4 minutes past 12 to 5 day weather forecast on B.B.C. Radio Sheffield what we are seeing some improvement across South Yorkshire still in terms of how many snow showers are feeling towards the temperatures though in the day we're still struggling minus one to minus 3 degrees across parts of Yorkshire and actually even though things are tending to dry out this afternoon with this coming through it will stay very cold minus one minus 2 Celsius to plus one Celsius 30 pornstar in height and not only that tempered by that risk in the wind as we go through the night so nice we will see the temperatures really fall in the way in subzero for all of us by tomorrow morning a frosty start but I concern for us for the rest of your Sunday and for Monday too although Monday will be dry with a bit of brightness and temperatures recovering to 5 degrees. Hello and welcome to the pole had some weather show on the B.B.C. On the show this week White Christmas so why are we talking about whether we're more likely to get warmer all the other why would a group or scientists invite an artist with them on a trip to a glossy of a talking to ice artist Nyoman heart 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 or hearing about the hay. 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 it Chris Waring families will be telling me what they found and I'll meet you my weather watcher of the week she's lane from thoughts all coming up on the show this week and my look at the weather. Us a full stops on the weather show the Seahawks Lincolnshire at the north midlands and online while this way the world said goodbye to the great physicist Stephen Hawking didn't get very many volved in the science of made sure all of your beloved shape of folks some controversy by criticizing president trumps 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 need to 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 could push it over. To become like the nose with the temperature of $250.00 degrees. Your guess is. Just one of your career dangerously base and it's one we can prevent if we lost Professor Stephen Hawking who died earlier this week later in the show will be looking into space at the rose 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 I'll be looking forward to having 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 whitey stuck than a white Christmas now that is a fact that often surprises many people I remember those Christmas cards from to Ken's. In 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 but 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 year Easter is quite 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 she has from the feces. Our minds are 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 Nyoman is with me now from our studio live in Exeter how you know me very well thank you Paul thank you very much. Inviting LA 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 is 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 I mean 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 and what inspired you it's incredible So the further north you go the more amazing it gets this 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 ever set 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 ago. 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 so far Bard 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 the Arctic and how we're affecting it so I try to look at this with strata 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 they were quite often just stop in the landscape and look at something and say oh that's in. Misting I wonder what why that is I wonder what that does I wonder why that happens and artists that I know are the same way 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 joining 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 Cooke 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 our week Exeter which will be the 22nd to the 28th of May I hope to tour the exhibition to all sorts of ice 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 a frozen pint of science takes place in Sheffield on Wednesday and again later in May Know Me Thank you so much for joining us thank you very much for having me Paul thanks. You. wow simply read from 99 Coming up what's the difference between the. Looks you need to know because this weekend was seen the looks well Alex down at the Mets office in Extras joining the very shortly that we'll have a chat about that this is the poll and some other show from the B.B.C. . Publishing has. Nothing to. Do you mind people always referring to. Never mind because I loved the character who was Tyler's Dad He did look remarkably like Del Boy but I've always insisted that it is boys make fun of friends dance Coronation Street girlie was Kevin Kennedy I live with 3 women my wife and 2 daughters and we banned the word fat in our soups of Noma's $5.00 Edwards weekday mornings from Santa. The whole Hudson weather show from the feces. While I saw out the Aqua looks now it's happening this weekend I'm delighted to say Alex Burkill is joining us live from the Met Office in Exeter How are you Alex 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 Akron ox 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 Lux 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 America an 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 a solstice 21st of September is the ox and 24 cities summer is the winter solstice that is not necessarily correct is it can vary it can be the 22nd or the 20th 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 this 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 the 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 the nights will be shorter than days when as as I've just said it's now. 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 Sunday equal day in equal nice Sunday it's not quite equal 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 stopwatches 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 it's 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 get

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