quite a wild day to come all due to this amazing swirl of cloud we saw to the south of iceland on wednesday. it s an area of low pressure which, as we start thursday morning, will have moved in across the western half of scotland in particular. to the south, we still have a weather front set to clear that will be sweeping away the last dregs of the milder air. to the north of it, a chilly start, a risk of ice in places, a few wintry showers but as i said, a particularly wild start to the day in parts of scotland 60 70 mph gusts across the western isles and those northwestern coasts, big seas, as well, and blizzards on the mountains. we ll see wintry showers across northern england, northern ireland, and parts of wales, but sunshine in between those and a blustery wind. strongest of the winds in scotland transfer eastwards through the day. winds always lighter further south and, once you ve got rid of the morning cloud and patchy rain, it should be a bright and sunny day. the winds,
the weather center. adam. this is such a unique system that we continue to track. this is a tropical satellite from the last 12 hours and you see next to no motion. when i was here last night, next to no motion since then. if you are on the island, this has been an absolute nightmare, consistently winds up to 160-17. nonstop for nearly 24 hours. the system still not moving hardly at all but it is sitting about 85 miles off the florida coast. you re seeing it there, some of the outer bands of rain beginning to work that way, some big seas, traffic conditions, but really those extreme, extreme winds are not there. they are stretching out from the center of the system about 35 miles and as i showed you, we are roughly 80 miles off the shore. they aren t getting there, currently we re just talking about some outer bands of rain moving that direction. where is the system going to move? maybe finally is going to start to take off sometime tomorrow, so there is still a lot of time for this
talk about this new data, that they have come and the conclusion they have had to reach from it. they are connected with what we are hearing here from the air force base. these objects are being spotted, right, andrew? absolutely. at the moment, the prime minister is talking about inmarsat. it does seem to be linked. everybody is now. we have been talking about how d desperate the search and rescue mission has been. we have chinese air force planes sitting on an air force base here. it is all working in the same direction. it is three miles deep, this part of the ocean around there. there are big currents, big tides, big seas. this is a very rough, rough stretch of water and so, so remote. there are vessels. the vessels are going to be absolutely critical. richard was talking about the success of the australian navy vessel. that is there.
subs, with hydrophones, try to listen. it s a huge area of ocean. it s a i mean, we were just looking at some video right now. one of the search planes australian search planes. we had a photographer on board. you can see the guys throwing buoys overboard to mark the area where they are. and you can see behind them this vast expanse of ocean. it s in the middle of nowhere. somewhere around there is the point in the ocean that s the furthest from land on earth. uh-huh. this is the southern ocean close to antarctica, big seas, deep water, strong currents. it s almost the worst possible place to lose something. 1400 miles, 1460 miles from perth, australia. perth already one of the most isolated cities on earth gives you a sense how far this is, almost off the edge of the earth. jeff wise, great to have you here. thank you so much. we re following the news all day the two pieces of debris spotted off the coast of australia, satellite images and now there are people out there
one of the toughest parts of our globe to get to. an area of big, big seas that all look alike from either fixed wing or helicopter or satellites. the c-130 that kerry mentioned as it flies over. let s say we have an identified sight. it can mark the spot with dye. kit show flaeres. they can launch rescue rafts and buoys. all of it will be rescuer orange because of all that will follow by air and by sea at double time to try to get out here. i guess what we re all saying, ngt ghoulish business, any time an airliner goes down, it is hardly ever not ghoulish.