that's the weather, for now

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forecast forecast

Looks like we're in for a busy week next week; Angela tells us on the Yahoo! group that, according to the Radio Times, Dan's on afternoon and evenings Sunday 18th, Monday 19th, Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd May.
Yay!

12th May

BBCi UK Forecast
Hello there. For many of us it's been another day for the sunglasses and shorts.

Maybe you're going to put the deckchairs into the garden [deckchair gesture] and enjoy the longer evenings; fine.

Lovely bright start; the old sunglasses as you drive off to work [sunglasses gesture, see pic].

The cloud that we have that has sort of oozed in overnight from eastern Scotland to the East Midlands - watch what happens; the heating of the day, it'll sort of ooze it back, like pushing back a layer of treacle onto the edge of a plate ['pushes' cloud on map into the North Sea].

Still, not bad for the outside for a picnic.

16:31-ish BBC News
Then with this darker area here, the cloud just oozes back in like taking an area of treacle and, vmm [was there a gesture with this one?], here it comes.

16:56 BBC News
The cloud, you can see the darker area, just oozes back in ['tugs' at the cloud], like you pull the curtain, sort of closing the blinds in the bedroom.

Thirteen for Belfast; you'll be grabbing the sunglasses as you head off back to work.

A fine-looking evening; the deckchairs into the garden, looking good.

17:55 BBC News
Contender for best Dan-ism of the year?
You'll see it [the cloud] just oozing back in ['tugs' at the cloud] like a layer of treacle that's been oozed back on along a plate of, say, warm dessert.

And then, go on, back you go; finally the cloud sort of taking a bit more time to turn away and break up.

18:27 BBC One and BBC News
That cloud that sits over the eastern coast of Britain - say goodbye to that.

The sort of day you just want to grab a packed lunch.

Watch on the BBC iPlayer - available until 6pm tomorrow.

I didn't watch the 18:55 - I was walking home.

11th May

16:27 BBC News
Well, I tell you, it's been one of those days where the barbecue [barbecue gesture], the picnic basket, everything, even the ice-lollies into the garden.

BBCi UK Forecast
Hello. It's been another warm day for many of us, one of those afternoons if you've been to the garden you've probably had the old paddling pool out.

And through the course of the night, those showers, bye bye, off they go.

Monday is,
One of those day for a packed lunch.

16:55-ish BBC News
Oops, I missed the start of this one.
Some of us might have the old fan in the bedroom again.

Monday;
You'll head to the outside, sunglasses in hand [sunglasses gesture], driving to work.

While I'm at home I've figured out how to extract the sound when watching online and play it back so I don't miss the Dan-isms. Not sure what's going to happen tomorrow though; I don't usually leave work until after 6pm, so I might have to resort to scribbling them down as quickly as I can.

10th May

BBCi UK Forecast
Probably a good day for a big ice-lolly [see pic] or something like that, a nice cold drink.

A few little showers that have popped up, they'll die away, but notice the ones over Scotland with a bit of upper level energy, almost like squeezing a sponge [squeezes sponge], still might keep them going through the night over Scotland. Elsewhere, maybe some mist or some low cloud and another one of those nights where the old fan [same fan gesture as yesterday] keeps going in the bedroom.

And Monday as well, it's the old sunglasses as you head off to work.

16:31 BBC News
Peter Sissons: I see a few clouds in Dan Corbett's crystal ball.

Dan: Yes, but they're just small clouds in fact, Peter. Today's one of those afternoons where, if you're in the garden, it's probably an afternoon for the ice-lollies.

Another night for the old fan to go in the old bedroom.

17:26 BBC News
Temperatures maybe a touch down but still a good-looking picnic day, maybe as high as twenty-two. That's the weather, for now.

World News Today

So, being deprived of TV, I've had to resort to watching telly on the lovely BBC iPlayer (and the not so lovely 4OD). I thought I'd check yesterday's World News Today, just in case the forecast was kept on at the end - and it was!

Notice the temperature in London, twenty-six or twenty-seven, so probably the barbecue into the garden [barbecue gesture - see pic] would do well.

Watch online - Dan's about 27 minutes in. Hurry; as I type it's only available for 5 more hours.

9th May

Still no Sky signal, so watched online after my meeting finished.
As hard as I tried to scribble down the Dan-isms, they were flowing too quickly this evening and my hand couldn't keep up. Probably have some of the Dan-isms muddled up.

BBCi UK Forecast
Hello there. With a big ridge of high pressure sitting to the east of the British Isles, I think for a lot of us it'll be packing up the picnic basket [see pic for gesture], maybe even the barbecue for the weekend.

Barbecue [barbecue gesture] should be in the garden by Sunday, I'd say.

17:56 BBC News
After Film 24,
Hello there. Perhaps you've got weekend plans, trip to the movies, more than likely... [missed the next bit, possibly something about going to the seaside or being in the garden - at any rate, there was a mention of deckchairs].

The old fan in the bedroom [spins finger] might come in handy for the night.

Maybe you're out with the dog in the morning [invisible dog].

18:26 BBC News
I think the picnic baskets will more than likely be coming out of the cupboard and those barbecues, put them in the garden.

There was another mention of the fan, which I didn't get time to write properly.

A bit gutted I missed most of today's broadcasts; he was all happy and smiley (even when they left him with just one minute to do the weather at 18:59) and those ones are usually the best.

forecast forecast

Angela says;

According to next weeks RT, Dan is on afternoon / evenings on Sunday 11th and Monday 12th May.

I forgot to post last week's forecast forecast after some confusion with the date, but this week's RT has Dan down for the afternoon / evening slot this Friday, so if he's doing Sunday and Monday perhaps that means he might do Saturday too.

To warn you, it's likely the Sky won't be fixed by then and a meeting after work on Friday will prevent me from watching online until after 17:30.

UPDATE: We now have absolutely no Sky signal on any channel. The engineer came out on Thursday and said we either need to chop down the trees (not an option) or have our Sky dish moved, which he can't do until next week.

BBC Radio 2

We hear Dan was 'just sort of puddling about in the garden' in yesterday's warm, sunny weather,
Put the shorts on, scared the neighbours and they closed all the curtains when they saw my skinny, white legs.

It's gonna be one of those days where you just want to sneak out (if you're going back to work) in the middle of the day and have a packed lunch in the park.

I think, overall, the rest of the week's looking pretty good and I think by the end of it you might be out with your bikini, you never know

Shame he's not on tomorrow, I do enjoy his chats with Janice Long.

Listen again, days about 1h 42m in, available for the next seven days.

BBCi World Forecast

Hello there. It looks like the shorts and the sunglasses will be coming out across a good part of Europe over the next few days. A lovely ridge of high pressure dominating, and for many spots maybe even the deckchairs and the barbecues into the garden [I think it was the barbecue-pushing gesture rather than the deckchair placing one, but I could be wrong - it's a subtle difference - see pic].

Look at the numbers for Tuesday for, say, parts of Iberia. It'll definitely be a swimming day over much of Spain.

Could see a few showers to Cape Town; grab the old brolly here.

Buenos Aires: tick!

For much of the US it's quiet on the coast, but then look at this; lumps of blue, like going, fff[short, sharp flicking paintbrush gesture], with a paintbrush but, as they start to get some energy with the weather system coming in from the west, just look a them on Tuesday and you go, 'yeah, OK, so', but... then these things just go, vmmm.

3rd May

Unfortunately, as I had suspected, the Sky signal was so poor that many of the forecasts did not record at all. We're looking into whether the sudden deterioration in signal is due to the return of the leaves on the trees in front of our satellite dish, or other radio interference (which would also explain why our wireless internet stopped working).

The 18:26-ish (the beginning was skipped entirely) was the only one which recorded anything watchable:
After Monday's wet weather,
Tuesday, fmm, it's gone. Just sort of like pulling a piece of string apart [stretching gesture].

I tried to watch BBC News online but that wasn't working either. Gaahhhh!
Fortunately, BBCi was;

BBCi UK Forecast
Surprisingly, this one doesn't begin with 'hello there';
Even though there's a weather system approaching the British Isles, for some of us it's a pretty good-looking day; temperatures up to twenty degrees - maybe the barbecues have been into the garden.

Yes, they have.

This thing [big area of rain] just sort of slowly chudders [?] its way through. It's taking its time, almost like dragging some stones with it [shuffles along slowly - see pic].

2nd May

Yet another day of Dan being on BBCi and BBC Four, but not on BBC News.

BBCi UK Forecast
Hello there. It's been another one of those days to keep the umbrella busy.

Maybe you're already planning, what's the weekend going to be like? ...maybe you are planning a barbecue, some of you might actually be able to push the old barbecue into the garden [kind of a 'deckchair' gesture].

19:26 BBC Four
Hello there. With the bank holiday weekend almost upon us, probably many of us want to head to the garden, put the barbecue out [same gesture as before].

The further east you are, I think you might be easing that barbecue into the garden.

1st May

On a whim, I checked BBCi after work - and there was Dan, but he wasn't on BBC News.

BBCi UK Forecast
Hello there. I bet by now you're finally looking forward to letting the old raincoat and umbrella dry off. They will do over the next couple of days, we're finally saying goodbye [waves - see pic] to the area of low pressure.

Still reasonably mild... so if you are nipping out for the evening hours, a light coat and I think you'll be fine.

A quiet sort of night, maybe you might even grab the telescope, you never know.

You look at things to start with and you say, 'yeah, not bad', but the next weather system will start to work in.

Then we get the weekend and we say, 'ugh, it's going to be a wash-out'.

19:26 BBC Four
We go through the night into the course of the weekend and you'll look to the south-west and you'll say, 'ah, that's the weekend weather'. But notice where it's going, it's tracking in a westerly direction, so it's the western parts of the UK that see it for the course of Saturday. The further east you are, put the deckchairs in the garden.

28th April

As the TBT has been so erratic lately, I checked BBCi at regular intervals throughout the day - and there was Dan at about 15:55;

Your raincoat will be coming in handy.

Keep the umbrella handy.

With BBC News on in the background, I was poised to make notes as soon as the weather came on but... no Dan! Gasp!

19:26 BBC Four
[in a slightly more enthusiastic tone than usual] Hello there! I think this is one of those weeks where the raincoat probably won't have much of a chance to dry off.

You can see the main arc of rain spiralling round, almost like a blue-armed octopus [spirals arms around].

The Andrew Marr Show

I seemed to remember seeing a weather forecast in the middle of this programme a while ago but I missed it this morning - but have just discovered the delights of the streaming BBC iPlayer for Mac (none of this faffing about installing things like we did when we first tried it on Windows. My Mac, how I love thee, let me count the ways).

Andrew Marr: The latest twists in the atmospheric soap opera from Daniel Corbett. Daniel.

Dan: Well I tell you Andrew, it certainly keeps us busy and it was twenty-two degrees across the southern parts of Britain yesterday. Some spots probably had the deckchairs in the garden.

Keep the umbrella handy as we head to the course of Monday as well.

I think the umbrella in hand, Andrew, over the next couple of days.

And no sign off! Gasp!

Watch again (about 18 minutes in) - available for the next seven days.