Easynews 12 more I say yellow weather warning remains in place for North Yorkshire until tomorrow morning but compared to surrounding areas we appear to have escaped last night's mini beast from the east relatively unscathed the worst hit parts of the county appear to be along the coast and on higher ground our reporter Alex Bentleys at the approach to Sutton Bank One of the highest points in the county it's a little bit treacherous that of C K 3 Helmsley and then 3 to Moore's And it's particularly bad that there is quite a lot of his out. With snow plows I wouldn't recommend it's completely covered in snow probably if you've got 4 by 4 you might data management and if not it's a little bit too dangerous Well we know one woman who had to be rescued from a car last night on the murders on the B 1257 while a tree has been blown over a road in finally but it's now been removed drifting snow on high winds have led to coastal roads around Scarborough being closed today and today stage of look north big 50 so for challenge has been called off icy conditions have made it too dangerous Gratian has been telling us what it was like trying to drag their Sofer into Scarborough last night through blizzard conditions it was absolutely horrendous I can't tell you the last the last particular when the wind got up and the the blizzard hit as we were very nearly lost the so into the North Sea. With 6 people holding it down as we came over the top of the graves Well the area closest to us that suffered worst is Lincolnshire Police say around 35 vehicles were stuck overnight in drifts only a one $58.00 near addling some officers spent 7 hours digging and sowing the males Police also say driving conditions remain poor on the Yorkshire Lancashire border with no safe routes over the Pentagon's while snowplows try to clear the M 62 or other main story today North Yorkshire Police say they will never give up searching for Claudia Lawrence who went missing in your 9 years ago today Claudia was last seen leaving her home and he were fairly in the morning on her way to work as a chef at the University of York where police have said on Facebook today that we all hope those response. Her disappearance and suspected murder brought to justice and we'll continue to investigate any new leads Claudia's mom Joan has been telling us how her daughter's disappearance has affected her they actually verse 3 of Claudia just appearance is this weekend because we got the news about Jodi's disappearance on the Friday night the children son in law get together afterwards about your flowers somebody to buy some help was an urgent appeal to find a teenager who's gone missing in North Yorkshire 14 year old Nathan Stainton was last seen in Scarborough Sima Road area at 915 last night officers say they're increasingly concerned for his welfare the shadow chancellor says he agrees with the prime minister that the Russian state is to blame for the Solsbury nerve attack agents Donal's comments follow criticism of the Labor leader Jeremy Corbin for his failure to fully endorse to resume a position on the best place to live in Britain is York according to a poll in The Sunday Times the paper says it's because of the city's combination of ancient beauty and recent modernization including its trendy cafes and destination restaurants B.B.C. News It's 3 minutes past 12. B.B.C. Radio York weather now with the all important forecast today it's for some signs of improvement across North Yorkshire at the May particularly the further north in the east to Galle here we've got fewer showers and then we have seen still the risk of some there I think through the rest of this morning it's into this afternoon when the threat really starts to recede for those showers bitterly cold RINGBACK though with that brisk easterly wind and highs and just minus one to plus 2 Celsius even when you're in any drier and brighter weather a widespread frost tonight I see a real concern into tomorrow thank you very much sorrow 3 o'clock this afternoon will Foster's here to bring you songs from the stage and screen where time right now is 4 minutes past 12. Hello and welcome to the Paul had some other show on the B.B.C. On the show this week White Christmas. I'll be talking about whether we're more likely to get warm. Why would a group invite an artist with them on a trip to a glass of it talking. About. A frozen pint. 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. 1000 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 be meeting my weather watcher of the week from Seoul coming up on the show this week and my look at the weather. Radio. well this way the world said goodbye to the great physicist Stephen Hawking didn't get very many bold in the science of made a lush A provoke 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 simple drum section could push the earth over brewing to become like the nose with the temperature of $250.00 degrees and raining self your guess is climate change is one of your grit dangerously face and it's one we can prevent if we. Alas 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 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 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 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 whole Hudson whether she's from the feet. Or mines of frozen pond 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 a pair for that job tell us a bit about that so is the university that have to invite you it's a leave of 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 Bard last August to join him on his research and teaching there from. 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 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's 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 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 he holds and 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 tried 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 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 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 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 into science 1st I mean that's on the 21st of March you've just teller's 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 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 contact the. They are right be happy to hear from you people will get in touch but for now NY Omaha 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 Nyoman thank you so much for joining us thank you very much for having me full Thanks. 2 is joining me very shortly and I will have a chat about that this is the pole and some other show from the B.B.C. Weekdays from 12 on B.B.C. Radio you Jim and take you back to town in the sixty's. The seventy's. The eighty's. The ninety's. You travel back in time where the Adam Tomlinson and I know one weekdays from 12 B.B.C. Radio York well I saw about the Aqua looks now it's happening this weekend I'm delighted to say Alex Perkel is joining us live from the Met Office in Exeter How are you Alex Very good Paul Harry 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 acquis 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 and partly 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 be over the equator on the economics but that's not until Tuesday and what we have this weekend is the equity luxe that's when days are actually equal and there is a slight difference in those days right why why is it that and 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 she's the queen ox 21st of June is the solstice 21st of September is the ox and 24 cities Sumber 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 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 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 Woods nights will be shorter than days when as as I've just said it's not actually true it's also worth bearing in mind the actually changes depending on your latitude OK So depending. And how far north you are depends on how early before the economics in spring the luxe 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 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 are like especially in Yorkshire they'll be the love the stopwatches our woods 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 in 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 forecasts wrong number 2 it's closely followed is messing about with when the season starts are not every year we get the same but Alex I think you have you've you've. Not with beauty. Yeah I mean I'm a meteorologist so obviously I think spring starts on the 1st but I like it because it comes out so. 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. Are 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 top Let's talk umbrellas whatever the weather Comes Sunshine or rain there are brawlers of all shapes and sizes back in 958 this country house in the 1st ever umbrella fashion show with a head start over other countries so far as weather goes Britain's umbrella makers stage their 1st ever fashion show in London and features styles like this picture. Which really are as right as rain 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 guitar