with the virus ferocious spread after restrictions were lifted. you are watching bbc news. next, it s time for weather world. this time on weather world we are at raf coningsby which set the uk s highest temperature record this summer. and i will find out how severe weather effects operations here. i am here at the uk s national meteorological archive and i will find out how the new record temperature and all weather observations are used to paint a picture of the uk and the world s changing climate. if we want to understand our climate of the future, we need to understand the climate now and the climate going back into the past. all these sleeping bags and tents are for people in pakistan, still homeless after a devastating flood. i will report on the biggest storms of the year and look at what happened after weather disasters strike. i am at raf coningsby, not only a place close to my heart in that it is where i began my broadcasting career, but to british meteorology, thi
pope francis has called for an immediate end to the war in ukraine during his christmas day message. he was speaking in front of thousands of worshippers gathered in st peter s square. now on bbc news, weather world. this time on weather world we are at raf coningsby which hit the uk s highest temperature record this summer. and i will find out how severe weather effects operations here. i am here at the national meteorological archive and i will find out how the new record temperature and all weather observations are used to paint a picture of the uk and the world s changing climate. if we want to understand the climate of the future, we need to understand the climate now and the climate going back into the past. all these sleeping bags and tents are for people in pakistan still homeless after a devastating flood. i will report on the bigger storms of the year and look at what happened after weather disasters strike. i am at raf coningsby, not only a place close to my heart
spurs lose to aston villa, and have now won only two of their past seven matches. good morning. and happy new year. today is a cold start for many. it will be a sunny one when we lose the showers. the outlook for the rest of the week remains fairly changeable. details later in the programme. good morning. it s monday, january 2nd. senior doctors are warning that some a&e departments are in a complete state of crisis because of the extreme pressures facing the nhs this winter. the royal college of emergency medicine says it s impossible to provide the best standard of care, and there is no doubt that patients are being harmed. louisa pilbeam has the details. patients lying in a&e corridors. .ambulance delays, and staff who say they re at breaking point, and surging flu cases, all at a critical time for the nhs. the diagnosis from a leading emergency care doctor? unless there s more investment in services, patients are at risk. there is no doubt that when we are trying to tre
the taliban have now banned women in afghanistan from working for non governmental organisations saying they are breaking strict dress codes. just days ago the taliban barred women from studying at university. you are watching bbc news. now it s time for weather world. this time on weather world we are at raf coningsby which hit the uk s highest temperature record this summer. and i will find out how severe weather effects operations here. i am here at the uk s national meteorological archive and i will find out how the new record temperature and all weather observations are used to paint a picture of the uk and the world s changing climate. if we want to understand the climate of the future, we need to understand the climate now and the climate going back into the past. all these sleeping bags and tents are for people in pakistan still homeless after a devastating flood. i will report on the bigger storms of the year and look at what happened after weather disasters strike.
looking at how weather data is collected and used to inform us about how our climate is changing. earlier, i looked at temperature. now we re going to turn our attention to rainfall. mike, of course one of the most important types of weather data that is recorded is rainfall, but how do we record rainfall at specific sites and then interpret that to say for instance back on the 3rd of october 2020 it was the uk s wettest day on record? so we do monitor it carefully. how do we take those observations? from a network of approximately 2,000 rain gauges across the uk, we interpolate these data onto a gridded data set covering the uk, and the result of that are products like this map that you can see here of rainfall on the 3rd of october 2020. this was the wettest day on record with 30.1 millimetres. that statistic is basically an average across the uk, but when we do the maths on that, 30.1 millimetres comes up as 7.6 cubic kilometres,