John travels to Florida to learn about the ‘engine room’ of Irish Weather… the Gulf Stream and, following the recent arrival of a Giant Loggerhead turtle in Irish waters, he witnesses these prehistoric creatures laying their eggs on a Florida Beach.
This week John looks at how cope with the weather. He travels to Rossbeigh in County Kerry to see the results of this winter’s storms on the coastline. John then travels Rome to the European Space Agency to look at how they are developing systems to deal with extreme weather events in the future And John finds out how Ireland played its part in D-Day when he travels to Black Sod Lighthouse where news of an approaching storm was responsible for the postponement of the invasion for 24 hours.
John goes behind the scenes at Met Éireann and accepts a challenge to present the weather forecast LIVE