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Kirsty McCabe

Kirsty McCabe

Presenter

May 16, 2026

DanHOST
4:11
Do reveal.
4:13
I will reveal it all, Dan.
4:14
Um, the easiest way to think of El Niño is that it's part of a bigger picture, and it's all to do with the way that the ocean and the atmosphere interact over parts of the South Pacific.
4:25
And if you imagine the Pacific Ocean as being like a big bath of water, um, normally we've got something called the trade winds.
4:31
These are your typical wind pattern.
4:33
Normally, the trade winds would push the warm water towards one side.
4:37
And if you can picture the Pacific in your head, you've got Asia and Australia on one side, and then you've got the Americas, North and South, on the other.
DanHOST
5:31
D- what does it do to temperatures?
DanHOST
12:01
I've thought about the smell of snow, the sight of it, the colour, which there is none apparently, but no, not the sound.
12:07
Yeah, so sometimes you wake up and you think, ooh, it sounds really like muffled.
12:11
And then you look outside and realise it's snowed.
12:13
So it kind of makes everything quieter.
12:15
And that's because fresh snow is full of pockets of air and that absorbs the sound.
12:20
But when the snow gets old and it's all compacted and people have walked over it lots, that's when it actually starts to crunch more.
12:27
So we get that lovely sound when people walk on the snow, the crunching.
DanHOST
12:59
When do you think is officially the amount of time before being around snow gets boring?

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