Dan was (briefly) back on the Beeb to talk to Phil Williams on 5 Live again:
Phil: Does that same level of heightened excitement about the weather happen where you are now, working in New Zealand, or are people a bit less obsessed?
Dan: It's the same in New Zealand because they are literally in the middle of the ocean between the tropics and the poles and they get everything thrown at them plus a couple of kitchen sinks thrown sideways.
Dan moves on to El Niño, mentioning to Phil that he talked about this with him last time.
If somebody said you have a typical bathtub that's filled with ice and lukewarm water and, all of a sudden, somebody said, 'let's put about six dozen bunsen burners beneath this thing,' we're going to blow the heat through this thing and it's just steaming away.
Listeners sent in their questions. Imagine that. A direct line to Dan. The opportunity to talk to Dan and ask him any question at all.
My mind went blank.
He answered a couple of questions sent in via text/email; why do we get such poor weather in the UK (apparently because the jet stream "undulates like a flexing piece of plastic but right now it's literally like a wet piece of spaghetti,") and about the accuracy of forecasts (sometimes it's hard to predict because of "Mother Nature keeping the one hand behind her back saying, 'ha-haa-ah!I got you!'").
Later, Dan had shifted outside onto his mobile phone because a fire alarm had gone off. Then there were callers.
I shall not disparage the coherency of the two whose calls went on-air. Despite imagining I'd easily have been able to make less of a mess of it, I have no doubt that the reality would be very different faced with both Corb AND being broadcast live on the BBC.
As ever, Dan coped very well with them being, what must only have been overawed at talking to him.
When asked how El Niño is going to affect our winter:
It's difficult to pin it down and say it's gonna be cold or it's gonna be wet but ... we can't rule out Mother Nature in the back of the room saying, 'ha-haa-ah!'
It's almost like Mother Nature puts on that mask and sort of comes out and says, 'ha-haa, you didn't recognise me, did you?'
Listen on the BBC iPlayer, (available for 29 days from broadcast). The first bit starts around 1h 52m, the second bit at 2h 14m.
Psst, Phil; those numbers you read out from the Wikipedia article about the Maunder Minimum are years, not 24h clock times.
UPDATE:
There's video of this one below.