[MUSIC] As far as my relationship as meteorologist for the Barcelona World Race is concerned, with the actual race organizer, or the race direction. First of all, I provide them the daily weather forecast. Most likely we'll have a quick chat after that, that's how it was last time and the time before. However, we've also together defined some limits. If the breeze is more than 40 knots or 35 knots, depending where they are, we'll start updating more frequently. We will be more frequently in touch, every six hours or something. And if we see anything developing, anything developing that I see developing which is a reason to send out another written forecast or written update, an alert to the competitors, we decide so together. Apart from that, as a meteorologist, I'm also involved with the race organizer in planning purposes. When do the boats get back? When do they expect the first boat to reach Barcelona? But also small details like some boat has to stop somewhere, they had damage. They're no longer competing. Can you make sure that they get to the next port safely? Happened in the last race, for instance. I'm also involved with the whole planning as far as ice is concerned. It's a big thing, the ice. 20 years ago there were no satellites specifically to detect ice, now there are. There is another subject on that whole subject of ice but the actual organization of that, of dealing with the providers of that kind of data. Defining with race organizer, what should be the exclusion zone? What risk it could impose on, weather, ice, route, if we go too far north which is exclusion zone, are we sending everything into a light wind area? And does that change the character of the actual race? All that kind of discussions I'm involved with very often here. As far as briefing before the race is concerned, meteorological point of view. Barcelona World Race is different. Most around the world racers leave from an Atlantic coast. The Barcelona World Race leaves from Barcelona. And therefore it makes it really complicated to actually get the timing right when they get out of Gibraltar. So yes, we do a short term forecast and briefing, to get out of Mediterranean, with a variation in that when your starting time is from Gibraltar it will be basically a little harder to get right. So yes, we'll do a bit of a forecast down the African coast up to the Equator. But all the focus as far as the competitors are concerned is getting out of Mediterranean in one piece. And most of the questions will be on that. Apart from that, there will be briefings on the ice situation. I will start talking to the competitors on the ice situation three months before the actual race starts. And we keep updating that until they leave here in Barcelona. So they will leave with the latest information, the latest decision by race committee where the exclusions zone will be. And the race committee will continue updating that as the competitors go down the Atlantic.
