for the northern and southern life also known as the over a borealis and a stratus respectively are created by high energy radiation and solar particles slamming into the earth's magnetic bubble this we know but scientists have not known why some. pulsate until now the team at nasa time history of events and macro scale interactions during sub storms mission no misty mist and cooperation with the japanese iris spacecraft have shined a light on the mystery turns out the pulsating over as are created when plasma in the magnetized cone shaped bubble that surrounds the planet is just stirred by electrons from space and makes it pulse and flicker in shades of green blue purple and red and even better the research suggests that flickering auras could be happening on jupiter and saturn as well it seems that the forces that hold us together push us apart and protect us from the darkness space are the lights that inspire us to dream of magic in a dark night sky beautiful words beautiful words and interesting show interesting conflicts about the is. always good to do the show over. thank you everybod

the aurora borealis. largely dry today. misty and murky. rain arriving in the west later on.tlantic. a frontal system going to the west. a frontal system going to the west. a warm front. importing mild air. temperatures are not bad. chilly towards the east. high pressure sitting across europe. chilly in the east and the clear skies. eastern scotland, eastern england as wellwest, west, england and wales, more cloud. rain during the day, initially in northern ireland and then the west of england and scotla nd then the west of england and scotland later on. double figures in the north and west. more cold in north—east england and eastern scotland. this evening and overnight, rain going across all of the country. rain and cloud, not as cold as last night. monday morning will be frost—free. but misty and murky. we still have a frontal system on monday. eastern scotland and eastern counties of england the rainfall. look at the hot air mass. yellow indicating mild air. cold conditions on the way later in the week. monday is misty and murky and great. 0utbreaks week. monday is misty

and we get the chance to cd—r borealis?embers told they would have to move their pension into a new, less generous scheme. but many chose instead to take their money out and invest it elsewhere and that's cost them a lot of money. mps say those workers have been "shamelessly bamboozled" by advisers and have described the whole affair as an "erupting" mis—selling scandal. tom mcphail is with me, he's a pensions expert from hargreaves la nsdown. tom, good morning. good morning. been described as a new scandal, let's start with how much money, it's a lot? absolutely. these individuals had pension pot worth hundreds of thousands, in a few cases over £1 million. this is their retirement savings, their life savings, and across the thousands of people who have been involved in this scandal, we are therefore talking about hundreds of millions of pounds. in some cases these guys have lost tens of thousands from their retirement. the point was they we re their retirement. the point was they were never respected you have to make tough

something new is the forecast for the aurora borealis, the northern lights.ere would be a pretty good chance you would be able to see it. that is something our viewers are certainly interested in. the other thing which is different is the map is now green and flat. cloud is represented by the light, snow by the bright light, and blue rain coming our way. we can zoom the bright light, and blue rain coming our way. we can zoom right in to give you our high—resolution data. so a closer look at what is happening where you are. and we can add roads to this map as well, so if it was snowing, you would be able to see a lot more detail. if we go back to today's forecast, the temperature at the moment is —9.8, almost —10. there is ice and a widespread frost. and the bright light indicates cloud coming in from the atlantic. that is courtesy of a weather front which will bring in some rain preceded by some snow. but there is a lot of clear sky this morning, so there will be a lot of sunshine. that is why the temperatures are so low, and we have the risk of ice. wintry s

you can now put on a forecast of the aurora borealis, this shows where and when... aurora borealis, thiswhen... you can glimpse the northern lights. particularly for northern lights. particularly for northern parts of scotland, quite regularly in wintertime, we see the aurora borealis. changing on the uk wide basis as well. the weather this afternoon, northern england, for instance, you can see high—resolution detail data, where we will see the snow showers falling, and things are changing with their outlook seven days ahead for the city of leeds, for instance, you can for the city of leeds, for instance, you can see for the city of leeds, for instance, you can see the weather symbols but also the temperature, and when it rises and falls, more user—friendly. we hope people will like it. but as —— let us put it to the test. we have wintry weather continuing, more snow, snowing have wintry weather continuing, more snow, snowing across many have wintry weather continuing, more snow, snowing across many parts of the country today and the weather watchers have been posting great photos. this