14/04/2017

At Belfast International Airport, the team finds out about the recently installed solar farm that's providing a third of the airport's power. The farm also powers a new piece of tech that allows planes land in almost the most difficult visibility conditions such as severe fog.

Presenters Nick Miller and Sarah Keith-Lucas find out from the Air Traffic Controllers what it is like for them to deal with the weather and have a go at controlling air traffic control - on a simulator of course.

Sarah continues on an aviation journey in to the past. She meets experts at the Ulster Aviation Society explain the importance of 'weather flights' and they have a surprise in store for her about her grandfather, Short Bros chief engineer David Keith-Lucas, and how he influenced aviation as we know it today.

Meanwhile, Nick Miller is given rare access to weather records that are more than 200 years old at Armagh Observatory. For more than two centuries at 9am every day without fail a member of the Observatory has taken manual readings of the weather. This could soon change as the observatory is investigating the introduction of an automated system.

In addition to all of this, the BBC Weather team look back at the weather that has been making the news from America's weather bomb dubbed 'bombgenesis', floods in New Zealand and the storms across the globe.