John Creedon's Weather Sunday 6.30pm RTE1

OK, some of the people here may pour scorn on the programme, (and remember it's a series), but to be fair, it's one of the better weather programmes that's been broadcast over the last while. It was informative, interesting, and accurate without being sensationalist, so unless you are a total weather nerd, it should have been a good watch.

I found it helpful, and interesting, I had to do weather and met as an exam subject for aviation licences, and a long time ago, I was a volunteer observer in the UK, and my wife who has no real interest in weather other than as a victim of it's effects also found it to have been an interesting watch, so that gives me the impression that the overall balance of the programme was pretty good, in that it held both of our attentions.

I learnt some new facts about the Gulf Stream, like I didn't know that the currents off Namibia were part of the same flow, and the time the water spends at low levels came as a surprise as well.

It made a good programme to watch having seen the recent BBC programs Cloud Lab, which was a lot more technical, but very interesting as well, how many of us knew that a small "fair weather" cumulus cloud weighs about 4 tonnes, a developed Cumulo Nimbus could be as much as 30,000 Tonnes, and the weight of water in the atmosphere at any time is only massive, I think the figure was 29 Billion Tonnes, or along those lines.

If the rest of the series is as good as the first programme tonight, they will be both interesting and enjoyable.