in an underground metro system and on flooded trains. thankfully, on a far less extreme scale, the transport network here in london was hit with flash flooding in summer. and with climate scientists warning of more frequent bouts of intense rainfall, in a moment i ll be asking transport for london what they are doing to keep travellers safe. water cascades into london s covent garden underground station injuly, just one of a number of flood related incidents last summer. it s a problem which transport for london says has the potential to be catastrophic, and as one scientist told me, it s a problem compounded by increasing population, building, and an ageing drainage system. we are putting down concrete, tarmac, all those new houses, all those roofs. that surface water is going to increase anything between eight and 18% per small development. and you ve got to think about where it s going to go. and the drains are already
just before 5pm. now it s time for whetherworld. just before 5pm. now it s time for whether world. weather world. this time on weather world i m in scotland, the country that hosted the 2021 cop climate summit. the cairngorm see area faces its own challenges as our world warms. i will be talking to the people whose livelihoods depend on winter snow here, everyone if sometimes they have to make it themselves. the factory produces four tonnes an hour. i am in london where like many major cities round the world mass transport systems are facing up to the threat of flash flooding and i will be asking what can be done to keep travellers safe. also, sudden and savage, disaster in the usa, hit by one of its largest tornado outbreaks in its history. how one canadian province found itself at the epicentre of 2021 s climate change fuelled extremes. it is the effects of extreme events that can be devastating
produced phenomenal amounts of rain. and also injuly, frightening scenes from zhengzhou in china, where the floods that followed a year s worth of rain in just three days trapped people in an underground metro system and on flooded trains. thankfully, on a far less extreme scale, the transport network here in london was hit with flash flooding in summer. and with climate scientists warning of more frequent bouts of intense rainfall, in a moment i ll be asking transport for london what they are doing to keep travellers safe. water cascades into london s covent garden underground station injuly, just one of a number of flood related incidents last summer. to be catastrophic, and as one scientist told me, it s it s a problem which transport for london says has the potential to be catastrophic, and as one scientist told me, it s a problem compounded by increasing population, building, and an ageing drainage system.
in europe injuly, more than 200 people were killed, the greatest number here in germany, where entire villages were wiped out after a stalled weather system produced phenomenal amounts of rain. and also injuly, frightening scenes from zhengzhou in china, where the floods that followed a year s worth of rain in just three days trapped people in an underground metro system and on flooded trains. thankfully, on a far less extreme scale, the transport network here in london was hit with flash flooding in summer. and with climate scientists warning of more frequent bouts of intense rainfall, in a moment i ll be asking transport for london what they are doing to keep travellers safe. water cascades into london s covent garden underground station injuly, just one of a number of flood related incidents last summer. it s a problem which transport for london says has the potential to be catastrophic, and as one scientist told me, it s a problem compounded by increasing population, building, and
of life, loss of livelihoods. this is why we re concerned about climate change, exactly. flash flooding reached even greater heights of severity in 2021. in europe injuly, more than 200 people were killed, the greatest number here in germany, where entire villages were wiped out after a stalled weather system produced phenomenal amounts of rain. and also injuly, frightening scenes from zhengzhou in china, where the floods that followed a year s worth of rain in just three days trapped people in an underground metro system and on flooded trains. thankfully, on a far less extreme scale, the transport network here in london was hit with flash flooding in summer. and with climate scientists warning of more frequent bouts of intense rainfall, in a moment i ll be asking transport for london what they are doing to keep travellers safe. water cascades into london s covent garden underground station injuly, just one of a number of flood related