that's the weather, for now

5th July

BBCi British Isles forecast
The air just goes fmmm [ignition gesture], like that with the heat of the day.

Then it's literally just turn the gas flame up, they [the showers] just bubble up a bit more.

16:28 BBC News
We start Monday with the showers all ready to get going out of the starting blocks.

16:55 BBC News
It'll be one of those mornings you think it'll be lovely, sunglasses [sunglasses gesture], stick the umbrella in the bag [brolly-in-bag gesture].

This mass of speckles, almost like blue measles across the British Isles.

17:27 BBC News
Eleven, twelve, to fifteen as we start Monday, with already the showers racing themselves out of the starting blocks.

17:57 BBC News
Wow, a new Dan-ism:
Notice the clumps of cloud bubbling with the heat of the day ... like almost lumps of mashed potato.

You'll probably be out there with the umbrella [umbrella gesture] as you maybe stand on the platform or waiting at the bus stop, the south coast same sort of thing and then work down to south-west England as well, look at it, like we've gone like that [throwing gesture] with the blue paint and kept on going.

With the heating of the day like almost turning the gas flame on, it goes vmmm [ignition gesture] and that's what'll happen to the showers, vmmm [raises hands] up they go.

Countryfile
Twitter alerted me to the fact that Dan had been on TV with his sleeves rolled up. Gasp!

The whole swirl of showers sort of spinning around, almost like looking at lumps of clothing spinning around a washing machine [draws circle in the air].

We'll try to bring in this weather front but he's still sitting there almost waiting on a platform sort of thing.

Watch again on the iPlayer, 49 minutes in, available for 7 days from broadcast.
Not sure how long that nifty link gadget has been hidden there in the iPlayer programme information (probably for as long as they've been keeping track of who links to their programmes), but I'm not entirely convinced that you will be whisked straight to the start of the forecast, despite having chosen that option.

4th July

BBCi British Isles forecast
If you're just out with the family in the park, you'll have a fine day for the most part.

16:55 BBC News
Notice how the blue just sort of bubbles like that, like you've just turned the gas on the stove, and it's vmm, like that [ignition gesture].

3rd July

BBCi British Isles forecast
There's one thing you will notice, you won't be going outside going, [sniffs] 'eeurgh, gosh' [pulls face], going like that [swimming gesture] trying to part the air.

If you do need some more details on the weather, perhaps the family's coming round for the barbecue or something, or just other details, press the red button or go online. That's the weather, for now.

16:27 BBC News
It won't be one of the nights where you're sitting there with a wet towel on your head [touches head], trying to sleep. You won't need the fan as well.

16:56 BBC News
This area of cloud has been working in, melting that very hot air and boom did go the storms.

You won't be outside with the sun hat [raises hands to head] and the ice-cream [gestures holding one] very close by.

17:28 BBC News
You won't need all the fans in the bedroom and the windows open here and there.

17:57 BBC News
Well, if you're wondering about the hot and sticky weather, I think we can finally say goodbye to that [waves].

Some fairly intense things, almost like bubbling on the stove, the heat, then finally it boils over and that's what happens with the storms.

You wont start the morning, open the door and go [pulls face], 'uuurgh, gosh' with the heat.

Feeling that bit better if you're out and about, or maybe the neighbours are coming round for a picnic or something.

17:26 BBC Four
Not that sort of 'uuurgh' feel as you walk to the outside, trying to part the air [gestures doing so].

Twitter
Today's top tweet:

dcairns
BBC weatherman Dan Corbett is a great performance artist. It's like watching Von Karajan conduct!

28th June

BBC Radio 2
If you've got the week off and you're sort of thinking, 'well, we might just take the kids to the seaside'; gosh, you'll be in for a fine-looking spell of weather.

Of course, Mr Corbett is OBVIOUSLY referring to children not of statutory school age. We all know it's frowned upon to take them out of school during term-time ;-)

Think of it like the heat of a pressure cooker, you build it and build it and keep it on the stove for a couple of days and finally it goes boom, the lid blows off.

Listen again, about 1h 44m in. Available for 7 days from broadcast.

27th June

00:28 BBC Radio 4
Little pieces of energy that help to generate the storms, almost like a pressure cooker, you pop the lid slightly and boom do the storms go with the heating of the day.

Almost the night where you want to open the windows and get some fresh air in, but you've got an 'ugh' sort of feel, have a fan running in the bedroom.

Shipping Forecast
Listen again, 1 minute in. Available for 7 days after broadcast.

26th June

Dan was strangely absent from the News Channel until just before 7pm, it was Nick Miller instead.

BBCi British Isles forecast
One of those nights where you just want to flick the old fan on in the bedroom [flicking switch gesture]. Thirteen, fourteen, seventeen; just sort of a 'ugh' [pulls face] humid night.

If you're out first thing, maybe taking the dog for a walk [dog-walking gesture], a good-looking start.

18:57 BBC News
A sultry night; twelve, seventeen. One of the nights where you sort of open the window and say, 'ugh, gah!'. Have a fan running in the bedroom to at least try and cool things down.

19:26 BBC Four
The moisture and the heat of the day and boom did the storms go.

Twitter
Today's top tweets:

Tommyblx:
Dan Corbett is without doubt my favourite weatherman in the world and judging by my excitement right now probably just my favourite man.

and

EthanRayne:
Hope Daniel Corbett does the weather wearing a white glove today...

23rd June

The Sky+ was skipping badly again today; several Dan-isms were badly mangled.

16:55 BBC News
The skipping meant all I caught was an intriguing, 'like that, bang' and a mention of Wimbledon;
Another day for the old sun lotion [rubs back of hand], sun hat [touches head].

18:27 BBC One and BBC News
Maybe if you are heading off to the Wimbledon it'll be a sun hat day.

17:27 BBC News
In the studio with Emily Maitlis, Dan can be seen in the background adjusting his clothing.
Dan: It's not looking too bad, I tell you-

Emily: That's terrible! [pointing to rainy globe]

Dan: I know, well, not for all of us. Some of us have been out with strawberries and cream.

19:26 BBC Four
A day when you want to pack the picnic basket [brolly-in-bag type gesture] and head to the outside.

22nd June

16:28 BBC News
Sophie Long: Let's catch up with the weather, Simon King I think has the details, Simon. Dan Corbett, sorry, it's Dan.

Dan: [laughs] It's alright, it's still going to be good weather, whoever it is.

For some of us it might be a night where you switch the old fan on in the bedroom and it'll be spinning around [fan gesture].

16:55 BBC News
Uh-oh, the Sky+ is getting jumpy again.
I think certainly picnic baskets in hand.

Temperatures here still reasonably mild at eight o'clock in the morning; fourteen, fifteen. You'll sort of notice that; you'll walk outside and 'phww, boy' - a sign of things to come through the day.

Remember the drier air that's working in from the continent, just think of it like pulling back the curtains in a bedroom and going, 'fmm' [pulls back cloud] like that.

Maybe you've got the week off; lucky if you have.

I wish!

17:57 BBC News
The cloud has;
Just sort of been floating about, almost like wiggling about a bedsheet of sorts [brief throwing gesture].

It's not the night for the old telescope.

Might be one of those 'ugh' sort of nights in the old bedroom.

18:27 BBC One and BBC News
Good-looking weather for Wimbledon and I think sun hats over the next couple of days.

By the time we get to probably Wednesday, Thursday - watch the thermometer go, vmmm, and the cloud go fffw [sweeps it out of the way] like that.

I think for some of us almost like sticky, you might be tempted to put the fan on in the bedroom [fan gesture].

If you are going [to Wimbledon] probably the sun lotion as well [rubs back of hand - see pic].

19:26 BBC Four
That drier air continues to ease in, almost like eating up the cloud like a sponge sopping up some milk.

20th and 21st June

For once, I'm quite pleased Dan's on Five Live; there's not much that can tempt me to listen to that station - and I'm too busy to blog.

I did hear via Twitter that there was a weather report from Dan on the CBBC F1 commentary (accessible via the red button during broadcast, I believe). No ducks, though.

UPDATE:
Angela has kindly added the iPlayer links to Saturday and Sunday's Five Live Breakfast on the Yahoo! group.
If you're desperate for an additional Dan-fix, it might also be worth checking the programmes immediately before and immediately after Weekend Breakfast on Five Live.
Thanks, Angela!

19th June

BBCi British Isles Forecast
By Sunday, how about sunny spells? Of the two days I'd say that might be the day you might be saying, 'barbecue please' [barbecue gesture] perhaps.

A combination of me being rather heavy-handed with the delete button and some Boring Political Event meant I didn't see Dan on TV at all, but he was on Radio 4's Today programme.

14th June

BBC Radio 2
We hear that Dan wasn't out on the sun lounger yesterday, but sleeping:
Well, I was in-between night shifts and you're always like a zombie in the day. And actually all the neighbours were out, you could hear them sort of frolic about in the gardens having their picnics and barbecues and there I was, the sad person, 'uuurgh', cos you wake up for a couple of hours and then it's like, ugh, staggering around the house and I did go outside but [laughs] I was just useless. Oh well.

I don't think today will be the day when the neighbours will be outside with their sort of clinking [or clinging?] their glasses and having a lovely evening meal.

It's just like you turn on the gas stove in the morning and vvvm goes the blue flame.

Through the morning you'll see the cloud bubble up like bits of cauliflower going up in the day.

Tuesday's the drier day, so it might be the better day for the outside, you know, picnic again.

We're looking at some high pressure sitting out to the south-west and it's just sort of waving its finger at us saying 'hello'. And we're trying to coax it to come towards us because you always like high pressure, it gives us nice weather.

If you get a nice little ridge of high pressure, sort of sit it in place, put some press-pins on the back of it and say, 'sit there for a few weeks' or something and then, boom, we'll be all sorted for summer.

Listen again, about 1h 42m in. Available for seven days from broadcast.

13th June

I was sceptical when the TBT said Dan was on overnight tonight. He ended up being on the other overnight shift.

00:28 BBC Radio 4
You can almost paint the picture of sort of turning on a gas stove and, vvv, as it goes, that's what it will be like across the British Isles in the sense of the showers, they'll go up quite quickly.

The Shipping Forecast
To me, the highlight of this shift.
Listen to Dan's reassuring tone on the iPlayer.

Up All Night
Rainy in West Africa:
Probably the rain buckets certainly out for them.

The description of eastern Canada as 'soggy' makes Dan laugh:
You can probably picture them wandering around in their wellies.

Rather dry in Spain:
They're probably putting eggs on the tops of their cars and they watch them cook, fry up a breakfast or something.

Listen again, about 3h 27m in.

twitter

From Dogwinters on Twitter:

Today's favourite blog is a fansite dedicated to BBC weatherman Daniel Corbett http://kirsty.typepad.com/ttwfn

Cheers!

11th June

A good day for Dan-isms today.

BBCi British Isles Forecast
Almost a day where you want to grab a packed lunch [packed-lunch gesture].

One of those mornings you start off and say, [looks up] 'hmm, very pleasant'.

This is just a weak little weather system. Think of it like a thin little piece of blue plasticine, you pull it apart [stretching gesture - see pic] and then it's really just dots [jabs at map], that's what it is.

One of those days where you might just be able to finally have a packed lunch [brolly-in-bag type gesture], you never know.

If you need some more details on the weekend weather, maybe planning a barbecue, press the red button or go online. That's the weather, for now.

16:27 BBC News
Friday;
Might be finally be one of the days where a lot of us might be able to stick a packed lunch in the bag [brolly-in-bag type gesture]. That's the weather, for now.

16:57 BBC News
Well, you might be able to dust off the old picnic basket in the next couple of days. There's some warmer and drier th-w-air, spit the words out Dan, starts to work in.

One of those mornings where you step to the outside and go, [looks up] 'cor, this is a change' instead of huddled under the umbrella [two-handed umbrella gesture].

This is how our Saturday looks and you say, 'eeurgh' [pulls face]; just hang on [two-handed point to camera for emphasis].

You might even be tempted by the picnic basket, you never know.

17:32 BBC News
In the studio;
As they lose their heating of the day and as the low moves further away and all that unstable juicy [!] air they just go vmm, [moves hands in conductor-like tandem] that's it.

Friday;
A dry day, a warmer day, and I think for a lot of us maybe even the picnic basket, you never know. That's the weather, for now.

17:58 BBC News
In the studio again:
Friday's one of the first days you might walk outside and say, [looks up] 'ooh, a lovely bright start'.

A decent day, you might even be tempted to throw [rather forceful brolly-in-bag type gesture here. Careful, Dan; you'll squash your sarnies.] a packed lunch in the bag, you never know.

18:26 BBC One and BBC News
But Saturday you'll look at it [the weather map] and say, 'ugh, gosh'. But, hang on [another two-handed point].

Warm at the weekend;
So dust off the picnic basket maybe [polishing gesture].

Watch on the iPlayer, about 26 minutes in, available for 24 hours from broadcast.

18:57 BBC News
What is this weather system is just a weak looking thing, a few splashes of blue paint on the map [flicking gesture].

19:26 BBC Four
One of those days when you might be tempted to, well, grab the picnic basket, you never know.

This weather system here, it's like pulling apart a piece of blue string, pppt, [pulling-apart gesture] that's it, it thins out.

You might be tempted to the outside with the barbecue, you never know, if you've planned accordingly.

Watch on the iPlayer, around 26 minutes in, available for 24 hours from broadcast.

10th June

BBCi British Isles forecast
With the heat of the day almost like turning on the gas on the stove, vvvv [gestures ignition].

16:30 BBC News
Well, it's one of those days where you're certainly going to use the umbrella, it's probably going to sit in the front hallway to dry off during the evening hours.

And was he describing the air as 'juicy'? Juicy?!

17:56 BBC News
In the studio.
All the unstable air, the blobs of white across the British Isles, just bubbling up the showers, like you turn the gas on the stove and, vmmm, there it goes [gestures ignition].

The further west you are ... might even be a day for the deckchairs in the garden [deckchair gesture].

These showers, they're still there but they lose their heating of the day so they go 'fff' sort of fizzle out a bit, and then Friday, boom, it's gone. How about a drier day? There it is.

With the warmer air coming in, you might be grabbing the picnic baskets perhaps.

18:26 BBC One and BBC News
A fair bit of unstable air sitting across the British Isles, almost like turning on the gas stove and the areas of blue, the showers, bmm, up they went [same 'ignition' gesture as before].