that's the weather, for now

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Angela sent this message through to the Yahoo! group:

Just to say that on Teletext Page 317, there are today (you can send them up till 9pm this evening) messages about your favourite weatherforecaster; I have just sent one, there was another in favour of Dan already. The e-mail is ttwo@teletext.co.uk. You have to give your name and home town.

We can't get teletext at TTWFN Towers, what with the state of our satellite signal these days :-( But here's the online version:

Your Weather Favourites
Without a doubt, the most entertaining and interesting weatherman is Daniel Corbett. His weather reports are so easy on the ear, and he seems such a nice guy.
Rosie, Andover

Here's Angela's message:

Dan Corbett is easily the best weather forecaster ever. His charm and easy wit make all his forecasts informative and entertaining.

Am feeling like a bad fan, I didn't even submit a message. Tsk tsk.

Thanks, Angela!

11th October

16:28 BBC News
You might be tempted to grab a couple of extra blankets from the cupboard and just stick them on the end of the bed.

There's video of this under the cut, below.

16:57 BBC News
Dan's a bit late with his thick duvet warning, we've had ours out for a week or so now.
You might be tempted to grab the thicker duvet.

You might be tempted to run back inside for an extra layer or two.

The temperatures will, fff, drop right away [dropping gesture].

Our ridge of high pressure just more or less sits there, just sits in place like you put some glue on the back of it [rubs map], pttt, and you leave it there.

17:27 BBC News
A decent-looking day, a day for a packed lunch in a bag and head out for the course of the afternoon.

18:10-ish BBC One
We're saying goodbye to that [waves goodbye to the wet weather] and saying hello to a lovely ridge of high pressure.

BBCi British Isles
Monday's a fine day, you might be temped to just take a sandwich, stick it in a bag, maybe have a packed lunch outside.

Countryfile
After a piece about Horse Chestnut trees:
If you're collecting conkers over the next couple of days you probably won't need the wet-weather gear, but you might need an extra layer or two.
Collecting conkers? They've all fallen off the trees already near TTWFN Towers.

Some of us might be turning on the central heating [thermostat gesture - see pic. Then, with emphasis] OR perhaps grabbing a couple of extra layers.
Thermostat cat is pleased.

The high pressure is still there. It's almost like you stick some glue on the ridge of high pressure and, pppt [sticks it on the map], just leave it there for a couple of days.

The ridge of high pressure, still there. Remember the glue at the back of it?

The ridge of high pressure by the end of the week; still there, isn't it?

Watch on the iPlayer, available for 7 days from broadcast.

Video of this, the 16:28 and the 18:56 under the cut...

10th October

BBCi British Isles
We've said goodbye [waves - see pic] to one weather system.

If you're out and about through the evening hours though, let's say across the south and the east, looking fine, sixteen's your number in London, so just sort of a light-ish coat, you'll be fine for the most part.

Not a chilly night, seven to ten or eleven, so you don't need all the layers on the bed if you're wondering.

Big ridge of high pressure builds in. It's almost like taking a balloon and just, vvvvv [expanding gesture], here it is.

16:56 BBC News
Maybe you're out early in the morning, [dog-walking gesture] maybe take the dog out for a walk, shouldn't be a bad start.

It's not a big little weather system, just a little wiggler wriggler [thanks, terratec365!] really.

Like pumping up a big balloon, vvvv [expanding gesture], here it comes, a lovely ridge of high pressure.

One of those days where you just want to put a sandwich in a bag [brolly-in-bag gesture] and head off to work and have a packed lunch outside.

18:55 BBC News
That's all it is, a little [??; Sky+ skipped] easing through, piece of energy, bye bye. And then, Ha Ha! We bring in some high pressure.

That ridge of high pressure, we more or less keep it, pmmm [gestures placing it on the map], right about there.

Video
As much as I dislike split posts, I'm going start embedding video under a cut from now on. Not everyone has the ability to stop videos automatically loading and playing and, while it was OK when I was only posting videos occasionally, I suspect it's probably pretty annoying for those using IE now there's a video in almost every post.

So, terratec365's video of the 16:56 is under the cut:

news

As you might have read in the comments, Weatherwatcher posted a link to a BBC Weather page about the next edition of The Weather Show - with (wait for it...) the promise of Dan-content. Yay!

Peter Gibbs will look at the history of weather modification while Dan Corbett will go behind some of the recent meteorological news from around the globe.

The programme will be broadcast over the weekend of the 24th and 25th October, times yet to be confirmed.

In other news (off-topic, but perhaps relevant to your interests), there is now a Tomasz Schafernaker fan blog; The Schaf.

And, if you haven't seen Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs yet, I can highly recommend seeing it in 3D. I mean, come on - weather PLUS comedy, it's a killer combination.

7th October

BBCi British Isles
It's been a slow-moving weather system that's kept the umbrellas in hand [umbrella gesture - see pic] for some of us again today.

Temperatures won't hang about, fmmm [dropping gesture], dropping right away.

Down over much of northern England it'll be a chilly start. You probably will be tempted to not the central heating on [thermostat gesture] for the overnight as well.

The dribs and drabs [of rain], come on, clear away [shoos it away], we've had enough already.

Relying on my hastily jotted notes again...

16:29 BBC News
This is the day you've sort of marked on the calendar with a check mark [ticks air].

16:57 BBC News
It's been a slow-moving weather system just sort of dawdling its feet across the southern parts of Britain; if indeed it did have feet.

Some wet weather tonight ... then it turns chilly, maybe the central heating [thermostat gesture]. That's the weather, for now.

Video of this under the cut, below.

17:30 BBC News
After Jon Sopel asked Dan if he was going to get wet as he left work this evening:
I hope you've got a big umbrella that spreads all the way across [gestures distance].

17:56 BBC News
Reaches into his jacket to retrieve his clicker ;-) The camera work was a bit dodgy on this one too, all over the place.

Probably out with the sunglasses [sunglasses gesture].

19:28 BBC News
Some of us could be digging out a few extra blankets over the next couple of nights.

Twitter
Today's top tweet:

EthanRayne:
Daniel Corbett controls the Weather Map with the skill of a Jedi Master.

Video of the 16:57 under the cut...

6th October

16:27 BBC News
After a piece about newlyweds compensated for their poor wedding photos:
Anyone who was having a wedding today, you'll probably be with the umbrellas [umbrella gesture] and wet-weather gear.

16:56 BBC News
Almost the day for the wellies for some of us.

Thursday's the day on the calendar, mark it with the tick mark [ticks air].

The weather's going to be up and down a bit weather-wise [roller coaster gesture].

17:56 BBC News
In the studio:
Any weddings today, you'll probably see them with the umbrella [umbrella gesture] in the photos today.

Some spots might be having the central heating [thermostat gesture], other spots maybe tossing the blankets off the bed [gestures doing so].

The air still fairly moist and almost juicy. Go like that [swimming gesture?!] in the morning.

We bring in the high pressure, come on, work your way in [beckons it in]. A decent-looking Thursday. This is the day we've probably marked on the calendar with a nice little check [ticks air].

Thanks to terratec365, there's video of this one (under the cut, below).

18:25 BBC One and BBC News
Thursday's a decent-looking day, put a tick next to that day [ticks air].

Twitter
Today's top tweet:

dalekwidow:
BBC weatherman just talked about a "little wiggle in the weather front". His tone of voice said: "you sexy weather front, you"

5th October

No Sky signal again, News at Six on the iPlayer is weatherless, BBCi (online) not updated since lunchtime and only caught two forecasts online. Gah!

17:56 BBC News
You look at it [the weather map?] and say, where do you start?'.

You'll get outside in the morning and you'll be like this [parting curtains gesture] with the air.

It's almost like you're pulling it [the long strip of rain?] and it doesn't want to leave.

Thursday's our fine day, put a circle round it.

19:26 BBC Four
Some of us may not have hauled out the old raincoat for quite a while, it'll probably come in handy for many of us over the next couple of days.

Watch on the iPlayer, available for 24 hours from broadcast.

19:30 BBC News
Some of us might even be grabbing the wellies tomorrow.

Twitter
Chillly gives me a glimpse of what was missed on the Six [shakes fist at iPlayer]:

Dan Corbett (BBC weatherman) said "almost as if I've gone mad with a green crayon". I can imagine him with crayons.

Under the cut, video of the 18:56

2nd October

Not quite sure why we didn't get to see much of Dan today. He was on BBCi ('We'll slowly push the weather front further south, there he goes, bye bye'), BBC Four and then only twice on the News Channel.

18:56 BBC News
You look at the rain and say, 'gah, that's not really much'.

Look at the winds, almost like swirling their way around, almost like a washing machine, shwww, bits and pieces of clothing floating away, with the strongest ones being across northern parts of Britain.

Some particularly vigorous arm swirling during this Dan-ism made his clicker cable hit the floor with a bang.

19:29 BBC News
One of those weekends where you start holding your hat [touches head].

29th September

16:32 BBC News
Our weather's changing over the next couple of days. We could be going into the cupboard, digging out a couple of extra layers.

16:56 BBC News
That cooler air just starts oozing its way south, like you spill some green paint on it [pouring gesture] and it just goes bleurrrgh, like that.

Video of this one under the cut (below).

19:26 BBC Four
You already start to see the thing through Thursday, ooze its way south, whoosh, down comes the colder air from the north.

28th September

16:28 BBC News
You can see the cloud in place, almost like taking a sheet and going, fmmm, [throwing gesture], like that across the weather map.

17:29 BBC News
You look at it [the cloud] and say, 'ha, gah, where's the bright spells?'

17:56 BBC News
Maybe some of us could be out in the garden enjoying the book, by the end of the week it might be more likely the fleece.

See the lovely yellows, the oranges? That's the warmer air. Then the greens behind our weather front, almost like opening the floodgates, [dropping gesture] whoosh, down comes the cooler air. You might be turning on the central heating by the end of the week, believe it or not.

Central heating? Thermostat cat still does not approve.

Video of this one under the cut, below.

Twitter
Today's top tweet:

charbrum:
I love this weatherman on BBC1 news at 6. He looks like a conductor with his pretty hand and arm choreography!

27th September

BBC 5Live Weekend Breakfast
06:28
Thank goodness Weekend Breakfast is much less hazardous to your health than its weekday counterpart, or I'd have missed some interesting discussion about how Dan does his radio forecasts. It's worth a listen, and too long to transcribe.

Then, the forecast:
If you're peeling back the curtains fairly soon, when things get light, and you say, 'uurgh, God, it's grey', give it a couple of hours.

07:29
Wow, they say going to get Dan to do a piece of the 5Live blog about his forecasts - along with his scribbled-on charts. No sign of anything yet (UPDATE 11th Oct: I haven't forgotten about this, but it seems that the people at 5Live have - I do keep checking on a regular basis!), but will add a link to it here if/when it appears.

08:29
You pull back the kitchen window curtains or something and say, 'wow, a nice day!'.

Listen on the iPlayer, available for 7 days from broadcast.

BBCi North America
Watch the overnight temperatures really tumble ... you can see them sort of pulling out some blankets [gestures doing so - see pic].

Also, my friend Heather sent me a message to say she heard Dan on Radio 4 today - and I read on Twitter that he was on TV this afternoon too.

26th September

Another day of 5Live

07:30 BBC 5Live
Phil Williams: If only you could fix the weather, people wouldn't mind that, would they?

Dan: [laughs] We've been trying for a long time, yeah. Sometimes I do a rain dance but you shouldn't see it, it's an ugly one. But I don't need to do it today and I won't, because, I tell you, we've got a good-looking day.

High pressure sitting to the south-west of Britain, like it's been doing over the past couple of days, almost like you take some sticky glue, you stick it on the back of the high and put it to the south-west of Britain and it doesn't move.

08:28 BBC 5Live
That ridge of high pressure has been sitting to our south and to our west for the past couple of days, and it really hasn't moved. It's almost like it's got some lead weights attatched to it, it doesn't want to move - and it won't really.

Danny Baker
At half-hourly intervals I actually abandoned listening to Adam and Joe in order to watch (yes, watch) Dan do the weather on Danny Baker's show. During the live broadcast you are able to peer into the studio via a webcam, on the 5Live website and via the red button. Not just the usual webcam stills, but moving pictures, people.
Such a shame it's audio only on the iPlayer (available until 2nd January 2010).

09:30
If you're out-and-about, maybe just a trip to the park, you'll still do fairly well.

After previously wondering whether Dan gesticulates as he does his radio forecasts, my curiosity was satisfied; his hands did indeed move around as he talked. And I've long been fascinated by people's reactions to Dan, so it was good to see others in the studio watching attentively.

10:25

As if being able to WATCH Dan do the radio forecast wasn't already interesting enough, how about adding Alistair McGowan to the mix. Yes, Alistair McGowan, Britain's second best Daniel Corbett impersonator. I was keen to see what would happen if they were both in the studio at the same time. Not an impression, thankfully. But Dan did get a mention.

We hear Alistair is obsessed with attendances at football matches:
If there's 38,000 at Everton vs Fulham, that's OK, the world is all right ... but if there's suddenly 23,000 at Everton vs Fulham you think, 'what's happening?'. If there's 15,000 at Darlington vs Macclesfield, you think, 'ooh', so I always have to check. If the attendances fit the regular pattern, everything will be all right, the world will carry on. When the environmental doomsday comes, you watch, there'll be 8,000 at Everton vs Fulham and we'll know that we should have listened to [points at Dan] Daniel Corbett's weather forecasts, we should have worked out that the temperatures are rising and it would be reflected in the attendances.

Shortly afterwards, the forecast:
We've got this cloud easing in and maybe you've just stepped out this morning and gone, 'eeuw, gosh'.

Given my aforementioned interest in seeing other people's reactions to Dan, I was focussed on Alistair during the forecast. He watched attentively; I'd like to think he was doing some much needed homework.
They both left the studio at about the same time. Oh to be a fly on the wall...

BBCi North America
We continue to see some lovely weather over the western parts of North America. For some spots, people are probably looking at their watches [does so] in Canada, saying, 'is this actually late September?'.

25th September

So, it's been a while since Dan was last on 5Live, so I thought I'd give it another chance, partly because it's all on the iPlayer and listening does not depend upon receiving a decent satellite signal.
Instead, it depends upon how much nonsense I can bear.
The answer: not much.

06:28 BBC 5Live
It's almost like you put some sticky glue on the back of the high, leave it there.

Grrr, they talked over his sign-off.

06:58 BBC 5Live
Almost a day for a packed lunch

After which, my brain rotted away.
Next!

10:29 BBC 5Live
Ridge of high pressure has been sitting to the south-west of Britain for the past few days and it's still there, it's not really moving, like a big lump of concrete just sort of doesn't really want to move.

23rd September

Nothing recorded at all on the Sky+ today and wasn't able to watch online. Thank goodness for the iPlayer, BBCi and YouTube:

16:57 BBC News
A decent-looking start, you'll be back indoors for the sunglasses [brief sunglasses gesture].

It's a decent day, one of the days where you're packing your bag [gestures doing so], stick a sandwich in there, sort of head out to the park for the middle of the day.

And you can see this thing [high pressure] too, think of it like taking a bubble, you just pump it up, vvvv [expanding gesture], there it goes. High pressure building in, a couple of weather systems dancing to the north.

There's video of this one under the cut.

18:25 BBC One and BBC News
Nice spell of weather. I think we're going to take the umbrellas, many of us, stick 'em in the back of the cupboard [gestures doing so - see pic] for a couple of days as a lovely ridge of high pressure builds in.

Our ridge of high pressure, think of it like a big balloon, we just sort of take some air and go, fwwwww [pumping gesture], just build it up.

I can already see a few spots, people putting deckchairs [deckchair gesture] back in the garden.

Watch on the iPlayer, available for 24 hours from broadcast.

BBCi British Isles
You step to the outside in Norwich and you go, 'phew, very good'. You'll probably grab the sunglasses as well [sunglasses gesture].

That ridge of high pressure, it's going to hang on for the next couple of days, so the old umbrellas, stick it in the back of the cupboard [very energetic throwing gesture].

Twitter
Forgot to mention, there were several excellent Dan-related tweets on Twitter yesterday. A couple of good ones today too:

LeeConti
Dan Corbett has just eased the weather upon the nation in such a loving, sexy way. I feel a little used, but in a nice way. :)

EthanRayne
Daniel Corbett: The Michelangelo of Weathermen!

Video of the 16:57 under the cut...

22nd September

BBCi British Isles
Maybe the day for flying the old kite if you've been out [kite gesture].

16:29 BBC News
You probably had one of those days today, just had that autumnal feel to it. Maybe you were out-and-about seeing the leaves blowing about, maybe tempted to grab a kite and sort of go and fly it.

Video of this one under the cut, below.

16:56 BBC News
After a report about 'normal' size models there was a suggestion that women may be throwing things at the TV screen:
Hopefully they won't throw things at the weather forecast.

The ridge of high pressure sitting off to the south, that builds in like you pump up a balloon and just, vvvvv, here it goes [expanding gesture].

Video of this one under the cut too.

17:57 BBC News
It won't be the night for the extra blankets being tossed on the bed [gestures throwing blanket].

A mild night as well; ten to fourteen our numbers. It won't be sort of a heeh! a chilly start as you step to the outside.

18:27 BBC One and BBC News
After the news of Chas & Dave's split:
Fiona Bruce: Well, let's take a look at the weather now with Daniel Corbett. Dan, are you a bit of a Chas & Dave man, then?

Dan: [lost for words] Should I say yes or..? I've been keeping busy with the weather...

A couple of weather systems dancing to the north.

Watch again on the iPlayer, available for 24 hours from broadcast.

19:29 BBC News
After a report about the record-breaking Blue Peter mattress-topple (involving both Tim Willcox and Laura Tobin):
Well, I tell you guys, perfect mattress-toppling weather for the course of the afternoon.

Two videos in one post?! Coming up...

18th September

Fairly sure I missed lots of Dan-isms; the ongoing Sky+ problems rendered most broadcasts unwatchable.

22:26 BBC News
You're stepping to the outside, maybe take the dog for a walk [dog-walking gesture], you'll be fine, but just sort of seeing some cloud here and there [looks up].

02:26 BBC News
It's a dry start as well so if you are starting out early, take the dog out for a walk [dog-walking gesture], he'll probably sprint out the door.

BBCi British Isles
If you do have the outdoor plans, neighbours coming round or something, still going to be OK.

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BBCi Europe
Greece; it won't be the deckchairs with the wet weather here [see pic].

17th September

16:30 BBC News
The cloud does act as a sort of blanket, like taking a big thick duvet, you put it on the bed; not as chilly.

16:56 BBC News
I think for many of us, leave the old umbrella at home.

17:56 BBC News
Maybe you've been tempted over the past couple of nights just to throw a couple of blankets on the end of the bed, you never know.

That little chappie to the south, this one there, they sort of squeeze in, they're like a bit of a weather sandwich of sorts.

18:26 BBC One and BBC News
I think we can keep the wet weather gear stuffed away in the cupboard for another day.

Maybe you've been sort of tempted to stick a couple of extra blankets on the bed over the past couple of nights [see pic].

And, WOW - a rare outing on the Six for the classic 'that's the weather, for now' sign-off.

18:56 BBC News
Lumps of cloud just sort of floating about like bits and pieces of a puzzle of sorts.

16th September

16:30 BBC News
A chilly night as well, you might be tempted to grab an extra blanket or two.

16:56 BBC News
Rather chilly, you might even be tempted into a few spots to throw an extra blanket on the bed [gestures doing so] you never know.

17:29 BBC News
It could be a chilly night for some of us. You might even be tempted to find an extra blanket or two.

18:26 BBC One and BBC News
Tonight some of us might be tempted to grab an extra blanket for the bed.

12th September

16:29 BBC News
After a piece about downloading music:
Martine Croxall: Let's take a look at the weather forecast, no downloads required. Here he is, live and dangerous, Dan Corbett.

Dan: Well I tell you, the weather, you don't even have to download it either, it's just perfect.

Through the night this area of cloud slowly eases in from the North Sea, then it just oozes in, almost like some waves lapping at the shore.

It won't be wall-to-wall blue sky. It's still going to be a decent day, the deckchairs [deckchair gesture], you can keep them in the garden, it'll be nice.

17:56 BBC News
It's been a fine-looking day for the outside, perhaps you've had a picnic basket out.

There's a lump of cloud to the north and you say, 'well, it's a lump of cloud'.

BBCi British Isles
Surely I'm not the only one to have noticed the white figure on the tree in the background picture today.
The cloud just sort of eases in, like pulling the curtain in the bedroom at night [same pulling cloud in gesture as yesterday].

11th September

BBCi British Isles
A decent sort of day, a day where you just sort of want to take a picnic basket, head to the outside.

Into the evening, same sort of thing; you might be out-and-about in the park, you never know.

16:27 BBC News
Sue Thearle: Dan Corbett's here. And, Dan; no pressure, but it looks quite nice.

Dan: Yeah, no pressure - but high pressure! Some good-looking weather. It's really building, in fact, and it's just been sitting there. It's almost like you put some glue on the back of the high pressure [gestures applying glue], leave it there for a couple of days and it hasn't moved.

It's a decent sort of day, if you're going to be out-and-about, maybe push the deckchairs into the garden [deckchair gesture].

16:57 BBC News
If you've got outdoor plans, or maybe I can coax you into some; fairly pleasant-looking weather.

Wheel the deckchairs into the garden [deckchair gesture], maybe even pack a picnic basket.

Notice this little weather front just easing down. As he does, he just brings in a bit more cloud, like you pull a curtain, shhhhhhw [gestures pulling cloud in], just sort of bring in that cloud.

17:29 BBC News
If you're thinking of outdoor plans, maybe you're heading away for the weekend to Grandma's or something, we've got some decent-looking weather in store.

17:56 BBC News
After Film 24:
If you thought the weather was going to make it a weekend for sitting inside watching the films well, surprise, it's going to be a weekend for the outside.

The cloud is just spinning round our ridge of high pressure like looking at the top of a washing machine [puts hands up to face as if peeping in], just lumps of cloud spinning around [draws arc in air].

Temperatures won't hang about, they'll fmmm [dropping gesture], drop away.

18:26 BBC One and BBC News
Some good-looking weather. How about a picnic? You never know, the way the weather's been going [was that a giggle from Sophie Raworth?]. Lovely high pressure sitting across the British Isles and, as it goes into motion, look at it, it barely moves. It's almost like there's some glue stuck beneath the high and just keeping it there.

18:56 BBC News
Probably going to be tempted to lap on some sun-lotion [touches hand] or grab a hat.

19:26 BBC Four
It looks like it'll be the weekend for the deckchairs in the garden.

Look at it [the high pressure], quite a massive thing, almost like you put some glue on the back of it [rubs map as if glueing].

19:30 BBC News
Lovely bright start [which I now cannot hear without thinking of the brilliant Brackish Water], one of those days where you maybe dart out the door, maybe taking the dog for a walk [dog-walking gesture]; he'll be out, fmmm, miles before you.

10th September

BBCi British Isles
If you have some outdoor plans, dust off a picnic basket [dusting gesture] or something, I think you'll be in fine shape.

16:29 BBC News
A quiet sort of night, you might be out there with the telescope.

A decent-looking day; one of those days where you stick a packed lunch in the bag [brolly-in-bag gesture].

16:55 BBC News
That ridge of high pressure more or less just sort of sits there. You go, dfff, like that [places high pressure on the map] leave it on the weather map and just sort of watch it for a couple of days [waiting gesture].

17:29 BBC News
In the studio:
It's been a gorgeous day; nice day for picnics in the park.

17:57 BBC News
In the studio:
High pressure ... sitting in place, almost like putting it into park and it doesn't move for a couple of days.

You might even be tempted for the extra blanket here and there. Clear skies, light winds and the temperatures do, thwww, [dropping gesture], drop right away.

The ridge of high pressure, pptt [places it on the map], sitting right there on the map, not really moving.

One of those days where you put a packed lunch into a bag [brolly-in-bag gesture] and take it out.

A couple of weather fronts dance around to the top of it [the high pressure].

18:26 BBC One and BBC News
Just a massive ridge of high pressure sitting in place, almost like you have a big cement block [gestures holding one], you stick it there, it doesn't move and it doesn't want to.

That ridge of high pressure, it's just sitting there almost like you almost sit and wait [waiting gesture], it just doesn't move.

If you haven't already dusted off the picnic basket [dusting gesture] or outdoor plans, it's certainly the time for it.

18:55 BBC News
Big ridge of high pressure building in and just parking itself.

You can see some of this cloud just easing in to East Anglia and the South East, looks like a bit of Swiss cheese.

19:26 BBC Four
Today was the sort of day where you wanted to head outside with a packed lunch during lunch [see pic].

Quite a big old thing, it's just sitting there, with some glue on the back of the ridge of high pressure [rubs map as if glueing].

19:30 BBC News
I hope you managed to dust off the picnic basket.

9th September

Wow! Dan was on fire tonight; exceptionally enthusiastic and brought out several new Dan-isms.

BBCi British Isles
It looks like the picnic baskets will be coming out for many of us over the next couple of days.

It shouldn't be too bad for the telescope as well.

Fine, bright skies, very very pleasant, you'll probably be out there with the old sunglasses [sunglasses gesture - see pic].

As we work through the day the ridge of high pressure that has more or less been sitting to the South-West finally builds in and sort of pops out his deckchair [deckchair gesture] and just sort of says, 'right, I'm here to stay'. And it will.

High pressure just sort of takes control and says, 'it's mine'.

16:28 BBC News
We can all reach into the cupboard and pull out the picnic basket [gestures doing so], dust it off and probably even use it as well.

A good night for the telescope for some of us as well.

16:56 BBC News
We'll have the sunglasses out for the next couple of days.

Notice this little finger of white, almost like we've gone like that [scribbling gesture] with some cotton wool, just sort of draped it across the weather map.

A great night for the telescope, maybe you're out-and-about.

Notice this little area of cloud, a few spots of rain easing in, but the high pressure just sort of takes over and says, 'aha! I'm here!'.

And then Saturday, it almost looks the same, well it does because high pressure, bmmm [gestures planting it on the map], it's just sitting here, it doesn't move.

The picnic basket; haul it out of the cupboard, it'll be coming in handy over the next couple of days.

17:28 BBC News
It could be the night for the old telescope.

17:56 BBC News
You step to the outside and you'll be grabbing the sunglasses [sunglasses gesture] as you maybe head out in your car.

Think of the high pressure like a big balloon, it just builds and just says, 'aha! Here we are!' and gives us a fine, dry day. Those showers by the afternoon; bye bye, that's it.

Outdoor plans, maybe even a picnic basket, you might even grab it.

18:26 BBC One and BBC News
I think some of us could be taking out the picnic baskets over the next couple of days, dusting them off, a nice spell of weather.

A good night for the telescope.

High pressure, almost like we take some glue, stick it on the back of the high [glueing gesture] and keep it there.

Watch on the iPlayer, available for 24 hours from broadcast.

18:56 BBC News
What's left of our weather front, he's easing away, bye bye.

19:26 BBC Four
I think the picnic baskets, pull them out of the cupboard [gestures doing so], dust them off, they'll certainly be coming in handy.

High pressure building in, almost like you take some glue, put it on the back of it and stick it there [gestures sticking it to the map].

The ridge of high pressure just sort of builds in and just sits there like you glue it to the old weather map.

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

6th September

BBCi British Isles
If you're perhaps heading home maybe from Grandma's for the weekend, you'll see some outbreaks of rain as you perhaps head out-and-about or heading home.

Like having a big blue balloon, you pull the air out of it [gestures doing so] and it just starts to fizzle.

16:29 BBC News
Maybe you've been out to the park and you've seen the thicker cloud work in.

The whole thing just sort of shrinks, shhhhw, [shrinking gesture] like that.

16:57 BBC News
The weather's going to be like that [roller-coaster gesture] for the week.

17:27 BBC News
It'll be like a good old windbag, you pull the air from it [gestures doing so] and, shhhw, it fizzles out.

Quite a monster, in fact; look at this thing just work in, really winding itself up as it works in, the squeeze of the lines. Almost like you take a top and go, fwww [spinning-top gesture] off it goes and the low just sort of winds up.

Countryfile
We push that system away and almost like taking a bubble, you just start pumping it with air [briefly gestures doing so] and it just goes vvvv [expanding gesture], like that.

Watch on the iPlayer. The link should take you straight to the forecast. Available for 7 days from broadcast.

UPDATE:
Oh look, video!

BBCi British Isles
The weather front works south, just like cleaning a slate you go shhhw [gestures pushing weather front southwards - see pic] like that, just sort of wiping the windscreen sort of thing.

5th September

16:56 BBC News
You're probably thinking of going out-and-about, maybe a trip to the park or something; for a lot of us it's fine. There's the wet weather, easing into Wales, south-west England, problem is [?] the early part of the afternoon if you're planning that trip to the park, out-and-about early on.

17:27 BBC News
It's not going to be clear skies for the night [looks up] ... it might not be the best night for the telescope [looks up again].

Sunday:
Isn't a bad-looking start, maybe you're thinking, 'well, we could be out early, or perhaps for the day, or perhaps heading out somewhere'.

Looking at the cloud it looks like bits of Swiss cheese.

UPDATE:
Blimey, it's on YouTube already:

BBC Radio 4
Kind of off-topic, but relevant to your interests, I tuned in early to Radio 4 for the forecast just before 6pm (no Dan-isms of note, BTW). It was iPM (yeah, Eddie Mair again); a listener had written in to say she often finds her attention drifting away during the weather forecast. To discover whether she was alone in this, last Friday iPM asked its listeners to pay close attention to the weather forecast. Apparently, 60% of people said they didn't remember the weather despite listening closely.
There were some interesting insights from various experts as to why this might be, and a semi-poetic rant about forecasters telling people what to wear/do/feel etc. that set my eyes rolling.

Listen to the full piece on the iPlayer, it's about 16 minutes in. Plus, as a bonus, Dan's forecast is at the very end (27m in). The programme description says it's available until 1st January 2099, so you can listen at your leisure.

UPDATE 16th September:
A couple of possible solutions to this problem have been posted on the PM blog (don't read the comments, though).

4th September

Yay, Dan's back!

BBCi British Isles
As we head into the weekend you're already starting to plan, it's not going to be the sunglasses, sitting out in the deckchairs for all of us.

17:56 BBC News
This lump of blue here, there it goes, bye bye.

Glasgow, it'll be a wet start as you maybe step out of the door with the dog for a walk [dog-walking gesture].

1998

YouTube notifies me when someone uploads something tagged with 'BBC Weather'. It's usually recent uploads (like the compilation video I blogged about last week), but occasionally it sends me links to older ones. Like this one, which I watched out of curiosity, but got a surprise at 40 seconds in; vintage Dan!

From the video description:

Here is the Ending to Tuesday's edition of BBC One o'Clock News with the BBC weather the BBC promos and Look North this was taped way back in December 1998.

The video and audio are out of sync, which makes it a little distracting to watch, but you get the idea. Some great Dan-isms too.

BTW, the TBT hasn't been updated for the past couple of days, so keep your eyes peeled!

The Weather Show

It's a Bank Holiday weekend; we're due another edition of The Weather Show.

From the BBC:

Carol Kirkwood presents the summer edition of the Weather Show from the International Bristol Balloon Fiesta, looking at the effect of El Nino on our weather system and examining the state of the British summer.

It's on the BBC News Channel this Saturday at 5.30, 14:30 and 21:30; Sunday at 03:30, 10:30, 14:30 and 23:30.

UPDATE:
Don't faint: Dan was on! He talks about some recent weather news about 10 minutes in.
Watch it on the iPlayer.

The Metric Police took a giant intake of breath at the mention of nine feet of rain in Taiwan - and not just the once; three times!

Still, that's a minor complaint; Dan was on the Weather Show for goodness sake!

26th August

BBC Radio Bristol
After today you've probably got the umbrella still drying in the front hall.

We've got a Bank Holiday weekend heading up and we haven't actually told the weather maps that yet.

Listen again, about 57 minutes in. Available for 7 days from broadcast.

BBC Radio Devon
In which Dan described Hurricane Bill as 'a big old windbag', Saturday as a 'decent day, you can put a big circle on it on the calendar', and 'two thumbs up for the Bank Holiday weekend'. Yay!

Listen again, about 1h 51m in. Available for 7 days from broadcast.

BBC Radio 2
It could be the deckchairs out in the garden.

Worth a listen to hear Dan explain cloud seeding to an incredulous Steve Jones. 1h 43m in, available for 7 days from broadcast.

video

This amusing concentrated compilation of Dan-isms set to screengrabs (some of which look strangely familiar...) appeared on YouTube today:

Some excellent Dan-isms there, including the 'ah, lovely' and 'shwiiing!'.

By the way, if you're a Firefox user fed up of YouTube videos playing automatically, I can recommend the Tube Stop add-on.

25th August

BBCi British Isles
Quite a washout sort of day, one of the days where you put the umbrella in the bag [brolly-in-bag gesture], the mac, and probably everything else.

As we work our way through the day this whole mass of wet and windy muck continues to work its way through. And notice how it's a big lump of blue and then by the end of the day it just becomes a fragmented mass of, well, not as much. That's the main energy easing through like a big blue balloon, you pull the air from it [gestures doing so] and it just goes shwww [shrinking gesture].

16:57 BBC News
So that's what's left of it [Wednesday's rain], bye bye of you go, clear away [shoos it away].

18:26 BBC One and BBC News
That's what's left of our troublemaker, bye bye, off you go.

24th August

BBCi British Isles
Further south it was probably a night for the old fan last night [fan gesture].

With the heat of the day it sort of bubbles up the cloud. A sort of cauliflower sort of cloud day with the cloud bubbling up.

16:56 BBC News
Heads up for some heavy rain. The remnants of what was once our tropical troublemaker, Bill, this mass here. Notice how this thing just winds up, like you take a top and you just go, fmmm [spinning-top gesture] and you pull it, look how this low just deepens [makes spinning gesture with finger].

This is the day you put the X across [draws cross in air] and say, 'it's a washout'.

18:26 BBC One and BBC News
I have to say, he is usually relatively sedate on the Six, but not this evening. After a piece about cockney cash machines;
George Alagiah: I don't know what the rhyming slang for sunshine or weather is, but let's see what it's going to be like, Daniel.

Dan: Probably for umbrella, like this [umbrella gesture], OK? Just kidding, but it might be coming in handy tomorrow.

There will be showers [ignition-type gesture?] so the umbrella will come in handy [umbrella gesture].

One of those days where you look at the clouds [looks up] and they look like lumps of cauliflower.

The remnants of our former Hurricane Bill, that thing there, just working in. Quite a bit of moisture in it, and look how it just winds up, like you pull a top and it goes, foom [spinning-top gesture], as it works in.

Certainly worth a second viewing.

23rd August

BBCi British Isles
It's been another one of those uneven weather days; some of us have had the sun-loungers in the garden, other spots we've had the umbrellas [umbrella gesture], even the wellies.

Depending on where you are you might be grabbing the umbrella [umbrella gesture] as you head your way back to work.

Am hoping there were no Dan-isms in the first forecast; another Sky+ fail.
Watched online after that.

16:57 BBC News
It's quite a mixed sort of day, depending on where you've been, maybe it's the sun-lounger, you've just come in from outside, or perhaps you've been looking at the rain go right past the window.

17:55 BBC News...
Excuse me BBC; interviewing random members of the public about some boring sporting event takes precedence over the weather now does it? Gah.

18:31 BBC News
Our little line of colour here, this is out little weather front, just sort of sits there like a bit of a nothing really. And then a little piece of energy just comes into it and almost like you spray some blue at it [gestures doing so] and it just vmmm, [ignition gesture] starts to come to life.

Countryfile
Then we get to Wednesday and probably just sort of take a big deep breath.

Wednesday's the big X day [ticks the air], the write-off day; bear it in mind if you're out and about, not the day for the snacks snaps really.

What? No sign-off?! We wuz robbed.

20th August

BBCi British Isles
A better night for sleeping, particularly across south-eastern areas where it was a bit of a [fan gesture] sticky old night with the fan going last night.

A decent start to the day, it'll be fairly bright but you'll be sticking the umbrella in the bag [brolly-in-bag gesture].

One of those days where you see the cloud almost like lumps of cauliflower [see pic], they really get going. And just look at them through the day, vmm [ignition gesture] as they do, like turning the gas flame on, bmm [flicking switch gesture], they bubble up.

After yesterday's Sky+ fail, I took precautions and watched on the 'ternet.

16:30 BBC News
Some drier, brighter spells mixed in but you almost shoehorn them in [shoehorn gesture] then in between some of the showers.

16:57 BBC News
One of those days where you just see the cloud like big lumps of cauliflower [same cauliflower-holding gesture as on BBCi earlier] in the day.

There was NO WEATHER at twenty-five past five.
Shocking.

17:57 BBC News
In the studio.
You see the speckles of blue, almost like we've gone like that [flicking gesture] with some blue paint and a paintbrush .

18:26 BBC One and BBC News
The cloud just sort of bubbles up almost like lumps of cauliflower [same cauliflower gesture as before] you'll see through the day.

You'll certainly be grabbing the umbrella [umbrella gesture] if you are to the outside.

19th August

BBCi British Isles
Sticky night for sleeping across the South-East, the old fan [fan gesture] will be going in the bedroom

Come away from the weather front you're still in the soupy air [pulls face], so it's sort of an 'ugh' [pulls face again - see pic] sort of morning as you step to the outside. Eighteen is the number standing at the bus stop in Norwich and probably about twenty in London on the platform or the bus stop.

The Sky+ isn't too keen on the heat. It skipped through every single recording, leaving few sentences intact. Grrr. This is all I caught:

16:30-ish BBC News
The thirties, we say goodbye to them [waves].

16:57 BBC News
Still with our wet weather, but at least it's still pushed through Northern Ireland, so you're into the fresher air; 'ahhh' as you step to the outside.

It also skipped through something about a 'big piece of blue plasticine', with accompanying stretching gesture.

17:30 BBC News
In the studio.
Further north, a different story for you; it's been wet weather, it's not been the sun loungers.

It'll be a sticky night for sleeping across the South-East, no lower than eighteen or nineteen, you'll probably want the old fan going in the room [fan gesture].

17:56 BBC News
In the studio.
Further north you're probably already saying, 'come on, Dan, give us a break.'

This big mass of wet weather, looks rather impressive ... [Sky+ skips] take a big blue piece of plasticine, you sort of squeeze it down and shake it apart [accompanying hand gestures] and there's nothing left of it.

18:26 BBC One and BBC News
It's going to be a sticky night across the south-eastern parts of Britain; the fan will be going in the bedroom [fan gesture].

18:57 BBC News
For Northern Ireland showers just bubbling up. Almost looks like sort of blobs of blue just being flicked at the map [flicks hand at map].

19:26 BBC Four
Wednesday was the day for the ice-lollies for some of us across southern parts of Britain.

18th August

BBCi British Isles
Wednesday will again be one of these sorts of days [weighing-up gesture, see pic] depending on where you are.

Further south and east you are, with high pressure dominating, bringing the warm air coming in off the continent, it's another day for the seaside, perhaps.

16:28 BBC News
For some of us it's been a good-looking day; temperatures into the mid- to upper-twenties, a day for the ice-cream man. But for some of us, though, it's been the umbrella [umbrella gesture].

16:57 BBC News
A wet start again for Northern Ireland as we bring in the outbreaks of rain, heavier bursts into south-west Scotland, the darker blues, like I've gone like this [scribbling gesture], like that with some blue crayon.

And further to the south it's that warmer air just oozing from southern parts of France. Notice the colours, the reds, all of that just working its way in, like a red layer of, er, treacle of sorts.

17:31 BBC News
In the studio.
It's been a good-looking day for some of us; twenty-five degrees in the South-East, but anyone further north will be saying, 'what are you talking about? The rain has been falling past my window'.

17:57 BBC News
In the studio. The Sky+ skipped through much of this one, including an opening Dan-ism, with an umbrella gesture. It also skipped through what sounded like a weather-system "sitting there, almost like it's waiting for a bu-".

Talking about the heat coming from France;
Guess where that's going? Fwww, here it comes, almost like you tip some red paint on the map and go, wooop [gestures pushing it northwards], like that across southern parts of Britain.

18:27 BBC One and BBC News
We've had a mixed sort of day, again it's one of those days, some of us had sun hats [touches head], some of us umbrellas [umbrella gesture], depending on what part of the country.

15th August

16:26 BBC News
Still going to keep that breeze, maybe you've been out today, almost tempted to go and grab the kite.

Little wiggle of a thing here [points to weather front], almost looks like it's trying to do a back somersault of sorts [was that a shrug?].

16:56 BBC News
It's not going to be bright blue sky, we're not going to all have the sun-loungers out but I think we'll still manage a decent day, at least the deckchairs into the garden or a trip to the park.

It's a good-looking start, you'll be out in the morning, the dog'll sort of bolt out the door [dog-bolting gesture] if you're in the south coast of England.

OMG. Genius alert:
Wet weather trying to come in from the west but the high pressure says, 'eh-uh, have a nice day everyone on Tuesday'.

17:26 BBC News
All the main lump of the cloud is easing through, that's the main energy just really a little piece of sorts like a little piece of string left over [stretching gesture], just push the whole lump of cotton through [gestures doing so].

There's our low, easing away; bye bye.

17:57 BBC News
For some of us today there was a keen old breeze, perhaps you were tempted to take the old kite out.

BBCi British Isles
It's a bright, it's a breezy day; maybe you're out there with the kite [gestures holding kite], you never know.

14th August

BBCi British Isles
It's been a mixed sort of day. For some of us, the sunglasses [sunglasses gesture], not a bad-looking day; further north, though, it's been the wellies, the umbrella.

16:57 BBC News
You'll have a bit more cloud as you start the morning, [looks up] it won't be lovely blue sky, wonderful.

As we work through the day, this thing, instead of just sweeping its way through, vmmm [pushes it away], like that, the main energy with it is working well through to the North Sea, so it's like having a big blue piece of plasticine [adopts stretching gesture pose], then you just go vvvvv, pull it apart [gestures doing so], you can barely see it by the afternoon [shrugs].

Sunday will be;
A fresher sort of day, just the day you might be outside, sort of push the mower round [gestures doing so] or something, just relax.

17:28 BBC News
Today, for instance, it was quite a contrasting sort of day [weighing-up gesture]; depending on where you were - for some of us it was the wellies, in other spots it was the sunglass[es?].

The weather system to the north;
just sort of starts to fragment, almost like you pull the plug on it and it just goes fffff, down like that.

17:56 BBC News
After Film 24. The Sky+ skipped through his first sentence, this is all I caught:
If you think the weather ... again ... and you'll be huddled inside watching films, surprise; you might actually get the picnic basket out on Sunday. Weather system is working its way across the northern parts of Britain, quite a thing as well, quite a complex[?]-looking bit of spaghetti.

Think of this as sort of a lump of energy here, you push it through [gestures doing so], off it goes into the North Sea and then you all of a sudden just pull the plug of the air [gestures doing so], chwww, and off it goes and the thing just starts to fizzle, [makes noise I can't transcribe] like that.

We'll finally push the weather front through [gestures doing so]; off he goes, bye bye.

Sunday;
It's a decent day, you never know, the picnic basket could come out.

18:26 BBC One and BBC News
After a story about Ralph, a bald penguin;
Fiona Bruce: [laughing] Well, will he be at risk from sunburn? Who knows? Well, actually, Daniel Corbett knows. Dan, you're here with the weather.

Dan: Well, I tell you what, Ralph might actually get to use his wetsuit this weekend, and maybe even some of us as well.

A trip to the park, something like that, decent for outdoor plans.

Our little wiggle of a weather front, off he goes, bye bye [gestures pushing it away].

19:29 BBC News
We've had quite a bit of wet weather the further north you've been today, you've probably had the wellies out.

13th August

16:30 BBC News
If you've been out for a packed lunch, fairly pleasant.

16:56 BBC News
A good-looking day, maybe you had the picnic basket out.

17:31 BBC News
In the studio:
Little ridge of high pressure gave us all a decent day, to maybe haul out [? not sure I heard that right] a picnic basket, you never know. A different day for some of us tomorrow, it's going to be one of those sorts of days [weighing options gesture - not seen that in a long time], depending on where you are; some of us will be holding the umbrellas [umbrella gesture], others will be enjoying a decent-looking day.

17:57 BBC News
In the studio again:
Twenty-six for London; you'll be having picnic baskets, compared with further north where it's probably the wellies, unfortunately.

18:26 BBC One and BBC News
A mixed sort of day for some of us tomorrow; some of us could have the sunglasses in one hand, and others could have the wellies.

19:26 BBC Four
For some of us it's been the picnic baskets today, could be the wellies tomorrow for some of us.

19:28 BBC News
Some of us might have an umbrella in hand, others might grab the sunglasses.

See the green, the yellow, just going in like I've gone mad like that [scribbling gesture] with some blue or green crayon.

12th August

16:28 BBC News
The cloud just sort of bubbling up, looking a bit like Swiss cheese.

17:56 BBC News
In the studio. Moving over to the right-hand side of the weather map;
Then we get ready for this thing, a big lump of blue, like we've just gone like that [energetic, one-handed throwing gesture] with some big blue paint.

Unusual rising inflection at the end of the usual sign-off.

18:27 BBC One and BBC News
There's our little ridge of high pressure. Unfortunately, he just goes sshhk, disappears [brings fingers together in shrinking-type gesture].

18:56 BBC News
Thursday's a day you might pack the packed lunch and be outside in the park in the middle of the day.

Big lump of blue [throwing gesture], vmmm, here it is, massive.

19:26 BBC Four
Elsewhere it looks like a bit of Swiss cheese, but it's just cloud bubbling up.

9th August

See if you can spot his Dan-ism of choice today:

BBCi British Isles
Monday's quite a different day; you'll be sticking the umbrella in the bag [brolly-in-bag gesture].

Monday;
Not a washout sort of day, more than likely a day you pull back the bedroom curtains [gestures doing so] and go, 'eeurgh, yuck!', because that's how it starts. But notice the big mass of blue, then the main energy pushes through it so it's almost like having a blue balloon, you pull the air, shhhhhk [expanding gesture], and it just shrinks.

16:28 BBC News
It's like having a big blue balloon; you pull a string and vvvvm, it just fizzles out.

16:56 BBC News
Monday:
It's not sort of splashing through the puddles for all of us.

As the main energy works through, it's like a big blue balloon, all of a sudden you pull the string, it just goes, zhoom, it disappears.

17:55 BBC News
That trip back to work for Monday, might not be the best day for the packed lunch in the park.

What was initially a big lump of blue, it's just bits and pieces, like taking a big blue balloon, you pull the end of it and chwww, it shrinks.

BBC One, just before 18:00
Many of us probably managed to keep the umbrella stuffed to the back of the cupboard ['brolly-in-bag'-type gesture] for the weekend.

It's just like popping a big blue balloon, it just fizzles out.

BBCi British Isles
For that trip back to work for Monday morning, I think many of us can probably leave the sunglasses [sunglasses gesture] at home [dismissive sweep of hand]. It'll be the raincoat if you're heading off to the bus stop or perhaps at the platform.

Monday sort of looks like that [turns to rainy backdrop] for many of us, you might pull back the bedroom curtains [gestures doing so] and go, 'eeurgh' in the morning.

8th August

16:30 BBC News
Tim Willcox: It is a day to be outside, not in the studio. Dan.

Dan: [laughs] It is a fine-looking day for the outside, maybe it's walking in the park, a picnic, just some decent-looking weather for many of us.

16:56 BBC News
It's fairly quiet, so if you've got plans, sitting in the garden, clear spells as you work through the evening, no problems, perhaps even just sort of having the neighbours round, a quiet sort of evening.

BBCi British Isles
If you've got the outdoor plans or thinking, 'maybe we could go to Grandma's house', you've got a decent day.

7th August

On top form today.

BBCi British Isles
If you're starting to plan for the weekend, hopefully you'll be thinking about the picnic basket at the back of the cupboard [see pic], might come in handy as opposed to the umbrella [umbrella gesture] and the raincoat.

It's a decent start to Saturday, probably scenes like this [turns to backdrop], with the cloud just sort of bubbling up and flattening out [accompanying 'bubbling up and flattening out' gesture].

A fairly pleasant day, wash the car, whatever it is, very nice for the most part.

A pleasant evening as well, maybe outdoor plans, neighbours coming round, you should be in fine shape.

16:29 BBC News
The weather forecast might for once put a smile on your face instead of [shields eyes] making you weep.

It's a weak old weather front, think of it like a little blue piece of plasticine, you pull it apart [stretching gesture], it just sort of thins out into showers.

Look at the finishing numbers; you'll be to the outside to the park.

You might even be dusting off the picnic basket, you never know.

16:56 BBC News
Maybe after a long, hard week working you can perhaps just sort of head home, put the deckchairs into the garden and a fine-looking sit outside.

Saturday, one of those mornings to take the dog for a walk and he goes pmmm, straight out the door [accompanying dog-bolting gesture].

The cloud just sort of bubble up, flattens out [same 'bubbling up, flattening out' gesture as before], a decent day for the outside. Eighteen to middle twenties. You know, I can already see the picnic baskets, perhaps.

There's our little ridge of high pressure, just that little bubble of sorts there. This little weak weather thing, you just sort of pull it away [gestures doing so], pmm, off it goes.

17:56 BBC News
After Film 24:
With the weekend upon us, perhaps you think it's going to be another soggy weekend inside watching the films. Well, pack your picnic basket, get the deckchairs out; it's going to be a fairly decent-looking weekend for many of us. And even this evening, clear spells, so maybe you're sort of heading home and just wheel the deckchairs into the garden [deckchair gesture].

If you're out early, maybe washing the car...

Our little ridge of high pressure, notice the little bubble there, this is the little weak weather front. It's almost like you sort of pull him away [gestures doing so], pffp, off you go, bye bye.

18:26 BBC One and BBC News
For a change we can take the umbrellas and stash them to the side [accompanying gesture].

If you have the outdoor plans instead of just looking through the windows [gestures doing so] and seeing all the rain go by, how about a pleasant-looking one?

Some decent weather, maybe even a picnic basket, you never know.

19:26 BBC Four
If you're outside maybe cutting the grass [gestures doing so], or whatever it is, just sitting in the deckchairs, you'll be in fine shape.

The cloud just sort of bubbling, even though it looks a bit like Swiss cheese.

19:27 BBC News
Geoff Clark: Now, if you're an England cricket fan you could've done with rain at least today, and rain tomorrow, rain forever I think. Dan Corbett, are we going to get it?

Dan: You're probably trying to hint at me to do my rain dance, but I tell you, it's not very good either.

A fine-looking day; deckchairs into the garden [deckchair gesture], a picnic basket, you never know.

6th August

BBCi British Isles
For a lot of us you might at least get the deckchairs into the garden [deckchair gesture], maybe a barbecue.

16:56 BBC News
That warm humid air and vmmpf go the clouds [ignition gesture].

Through the course of the day it does get the hint eventually, it just sort of eases away [gestures pushing the rain away]. Bit of a ginger old thing, come on, move.

Apart from him [weather system] it's a decent day, you might get the picnic basket out, you never know.

17:28 BBC News
In the studio with Emily Maitlis.
Emily: Daniel Corbett is here with the weather and for some reason he started laughing when I told him that I was in an open-air show tonight. Dan, why would that be?

Dan: I asked you if you could go like that [umbrella gesture] because you'll look at the weather maps in a bit and you'll go 'ah, that's why'.
Emily laughs.

17:57 BBC News
In the studio again. Brace yourselves...
Emily: What better way to ruin an evening than with a weather forecast. Dan.

Dan: Oh, thank you.

Emily: [laughs] Do your best.

Dan: I'll go now, anyway. Yes, there is some wet weather but I'll find some dry weather as well, just to spite Emily, or at least to cheer her up.

The storm system just developing and fmmm [ignition gesture], there it goes.

video

Found these on YouTube:

10th May

22nd February

3rd August

16:30 BBC News
It'll be a wet sort of day tomorrow, a drizzly sort of day. A day where you sort of open the curtains in the morning [parting curtains gesture, looks up] and go, 'yuck'.

16:56 BBC News
You step to the outside and probably pull back the bedroom curtains [gestures doing so] and go [pulls face], 'uuurgh, gosh'.

It's really just like bits and pieces, almost like taking flecks of blue paint and throwing them at the weather map [flicking gesture].

17:56 BBC News
In the studio.
Picnic baskets maybe for the day today, but certainly not tomorrow.

As we work through the night the main energy pushes through so it just sort of shrinks if anything, like a big blue balloon, you pull the plug and it just goes ffft, like that [gestures shrinking balloon].

You'll go out the door in the morning and you'll go [pulls face] 'phww, gah.'

Our weather front will just wiggle like a little blue snake there.

18:26 BBC One and BBC News
This is the one day of the week where you'll probably put an x on it [draws line in the air] as far as if you were looking for the sunny skies.

You'll manage to get a bit of brightness here and there but obviously it won't be sort of a bright blue sky day [looks up - see pic].

Still our wiggling weather front which will essentially wiggle [wiggles hand].

Look at all the dry weather from Scotland down to south-west England. That's a nice change, isn't it?

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19:26 BBC Four
The low just sort of winds itself up like you pull a top and go, [spinning top gesture], fwiing, off it goes.

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2nd August

16:55 BBC News
It's been a decent looking day for the outside, deckchairs into the garden, a trip to the park.

You won't be sort of like that with the umbrella [two-handed umbrella gesture] at the bus stop.

A big lump there, working its way in like a big blue sausage, just bending in.

17:28 BBC News
Bits and pieces of blue just being smattered at the map [flicking gesture].

17:56 BBC News
Trip back to work on Monday morning some of us might even be able to get away with not putting the old umbrella in the bag [brolly-in-bag gesture] for a change.

Not a bad-looking start; you might not be out there with the umbrella with two hands [two-handed umbrella gesture].

Tuesday's the mucky day, just put a red x next to it.

BBCi British Isles
Monday's not a bad day, it's bright spells, you won't be bundled up with the old raincoat [see pic] and the umbrella [two-handed umbrella gesture] and everything.

Monday night, wet old night, not the night for the washing on the line.

18:55-ish BBC One
I think the old umbrellas and raincoats can stay at home for many of us [gestures pushing them away].

Countryfile
If you've been out with the dog today, a good day for walking the dog, the dog probably had a smile on its face as well [incomprehensible - something about sunglasses?] if he could smile.

You see low pressure to the west and you say, 'go on, pull the other leg'.

Mark Tuesday with a red x [draws circle in air - see pic].

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1st August

BBCi British Isles
Of the two days it's finally the day where you can say, 'let's put the deckchairs into the garden' [deckchair gesture - see pic], maybe a trip to the park, it's a good-looking day.

16:56 BBC News
Outdoor plans - deckchairs in the garden, trip to the park; you're in fine shape.

It was pointed out on Twitter how rarely BBC1 viewers get to see Dan's trademark sign-off. There were no Dan-isms of note on his BBC1 forecast today, but at least we got the point-and-nod.

31st July

On early again.

14:56 BBC News
Sunday is the day you mark on the calendar [gestures circling date], it is the better day, the drier day.

15:31 BBC News
Our weekend will start with probably the raincoats in hand, but as we work through the weekend some of us might even be grabbing the old picnic basket, you never know.

15:57 BBC News
Perhaps you might at least be outside with the deckchairs [deckchair gesture]

16:27 BBC News
For the weekend start, I think more than likely we'll be like this [umbrella gesture] with the umbrella, but by the end of the weekend hopefully the sunglasses [sunglasses gesture] will come in handy.

16:57 BBC News
For the weekend weather, perhaps you've already seen the globe and you're thinking [shields eyes], 'oh no, not a wet weekend'.

You never know, the picnic basket could be coming out.

17:29 BBC News
One signal is that it's going to start off like this [umbrella gesture], you might get the sunglasses out [sunglasses gesture] by the end of the weekend.

Oops - heavy-handed with the delete button again; accidentally deleted the 17:55. Watched it live and I seem to remember there were some good Dan-isms. Dammit.

18:26 BBC One and BBC News
I think we'll probably start off like this with the umbrella [umbrella gesture] but by the end of the weekend you could be grabbing the sunglasses [sunglasses gesture].

This is the day to mark on the calendar, a day for the outdoor plans, yes - I'd pick this day for sure.

18:56 BBC News
We push the weather system away [gestures doing so], bye bye to you. High pressure builds in, look at that, a decent day for the outside, whatever it is ... maybe it's just the deckchairs in the garden.

19:30 BBC News
Annita McVeigh: Well, I don't know if Dan Corbett can promise some beautiful weather over the weekend. Hi, Dan.

Dan: Well, I tell you, Annita, it might be one of those weekends where you start off Saturday morning, open back the curtains [gestures doing so] and go, 'yuck!', but by the end of the weekend you might have a smile on your face with some sunshine.

30th July

On early today, for some reason.

14:57 BBC News
Jon Sopel: Dan Corbett is here - and it's another fine day for an indoor barbecue.

Dan: Well, Jon, you haven't seen the way you barbecue in the summer; you go like this with the umbrella [umbrella gesture with his left hand], like that with the spatula [gestures holding one in his right hand] and you're all set.

BBCi British Isles
And then we get to the weekend, you say, 'rain at times [closes eyes - see pic], ohhh gosh'.

16:29 BBC News
If you're out, maybe thinking about the picnic, there have been a few showers that have bubbled up.

16:55 BBC News
This system; bye bye, off you go [shoos it away]. And how about a little ridge of high pressure? A decent day for the outside, circle this one with a red marker, Sunday is your day.

Twitter
Today's top tweet:

EthanRayne
Daniel Corbett is the Ultimate Forecaster. The Master Prognosticator. The Yoda of Weathermen.

26th July

22:28 BBC News
What's left of our little weather system of the weekend, this little finger of blue here, notice how it just sort of thins, almost like you pull it apart [pulling gesture], like that [blows raspberry], that's it.

22:55 BBC News
What's left of our little weather front, the little line of blue ... you just sort of pull it apart, almost like a piece of blue plasticine [pulling gesture].

Shipping Forecast
Dan read the shipping forecast this morning.
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Australasia forecast
Weather system moving across most of New Zealand for Tuesday, so the umbrellas [umbrella gesture - see pic] probably coming in handy through the day.

Twitter
Today's top tweet:

WeeMcG
Wow. BBC weatherman appears to be bringing us the weather tonight via the medium of interpretive dance.