meteorological lesson now. here is a high pressure, two low pressures either side and now i will overlay a schematic this basically resembles almost the letter 0 mega. when this happens in the atmosphere the high pressure tends to be locked in between these weather systems, so the low pressure and jet stream and not much changes, it doesn t move around, for the next 8 10 days this is where forecasters will be thinking about different things to say because it is going to be more or less the same every single day. however there will be settled differences. i will talk about this breeze blowing out of the north and this cloud injust breeze blowing out of the north and this cloud in just a second but let s concentrate on the sunshine press. beautiful weather around the western isles, northern ireland, headingley looking absolutely fine, bright enough and some fine weather along the south coast as well. today s warm spot will be the further west you are, to the centre the high pressure, gla
rig. but it s also a production platform. can you help us sort out at least what this particular operation, this platform was functioning as at the time of this explosion and fire? caller: yeah, we re still getting details on that. from what we understand right now, it is a so-called fixed-platform, that means it doesn t move around. it s anchored to the sea floor in just about 300 feet of water and it primarily is a production platform. so, so oil and gas and it seems in this case, probably mostly gas comes into the platform. as far as we understand, there are not people on it on a day-to-day basis. they just come on when there s a job that needs doing. what we don t know is what kind of operation might be going on on board that rig in this particular case. does it sound like, we had a professor on from texas a&m earlier in the hour. his speculation was, it sounded like a natural gas explosion. if you had to speculate at this time, and i know you don t want