Deep Dive 23/07/2024 – Know your temperature scales! – Met Office weekly weather forecast UK

Published 2024-07-23
This week, Aidan McGivern takes an in-depth look at temperature scales and how they were invented. Bringing you this deep dive is Met Office meteorologist Aidan McGivern.

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All Comments (21)
  • @SonnyBailey
    I am wondering if you guys could do an in depth video about the effects of El Niño and La Niña on UK weather. It's a topic that would be useful I think.
  • You just managed to make my GCSEs, A-levels and first year of my degree finally make sense!!!!!
  • @Gooner184
    You can tell Aidan is really in his element here, I thoroughly enjoyed this breakdown and history lesson! :D
  • @markkinnish1196
    Question to ask the met office would you class this type summer we’ve had so far a more typical British summer rauther than the classic type hot ones we sometimes get from time to time. Thanks.
  • @goldenpeninsula
    Thank you so much for this week's deep dive, Aidan! Now we're entering the nitty and gritty of meteorologist's toolbox, so next time more about humidity and Hygrometers please!
  • @alexbowman7582
    You should give an explanation of the coriolis effect. It controls much of the weather.
  • @susiehenders
    I love the educational Met office vids 😊 Thank you
  • We ought to add degrees Rankin, which is the absolute scale in Fahrenheit units. If you're wedded to Fahrenheit, then this is what you have to use for thermodynamics. Water freezes at 492. People actually use this, though these days probably only in the USA.
  • @TheRealBancroft
    Newton’s is my favourite. It’s basically the meteorological equivalent of the classic Blackadder episode: Ink & Incapability 👌🏻
  • Thanks Aiden. In the subject of temperature. Could we have a deep dive on the Central England Temperature (CET)? How it all started, where the locations are etc?
  • @StuartDodson
    Really useful for my A level Physics students. Will pass onto my Geography teaching colleagues too. Looking forward to the next deep dive.
  • So basically Fahrenheit was a bit nuts! I knew it. Thanks for this dive mind you when I saw physics on there I panicked; the only semester of physics I ever had I earned the grade "complete nothingness" on a scale of 0 - 100 that is negative LOL🎉
  • Would it possible how to explain the forecast of the tempture for the upcoming week or month?
  • @rayhaddock779
    Thanks Aidan, takes me baxk to the experiments in the physica lab at school
  • @keithdavo
    interesting video thanks - I'm 61 so celsius was already officially adopted in the UK but i think fahrenheit was still used a lot when i was a kid. the effect of this is i think in C generally and always for cold temps but for hot temps, i still cant help converting to F. i only do this when i get to the high 20s C 🤪