Our fire stations ostrich located around option however they don't track every river. And it may be some time before we can get specialists there to come and help you get out of the water Chatsworth House has been ranked as the number one accessible attraction in Darbyshire and a new report by a charity the accessible tourism report examines whether visitors attractions have been making positive changes to improve accessibility because a clip from the charity says Chatsworth ranked highly on a number of different factors right excellent by our approach to either buy new they're disabled toilet leg parking and also that their staff training so yeah that's fantastic and they were in the right in the top 30 for the whole of the U.K. So you know it's really really good from. A number of roads and rail lines have been closed in northwest England due to flooding parts of the M 16 Greater Manchester close temporarily because of heavy rain demolition work has begun on the 8 cooling towers at ferry bridge power station and West Yorkshire spectators gathered to see the 1st of the 114 metre tall towers blown up in a controlled explosion the cult 5 power station produced its last electricity in March 26th 18 and the Colombian cyclist agone Byrne now will be crowned the winner of the 290022 France when he crosses the finish line in Paris later this afternoon he's the 1st Colombian to take the title I'm the youngest rider in 110 years it's B.B.C. Radio Sheffield news and sport it's 4 minutes past 12. Whether from Lynn Bell Good morning well a bit of a cloudy start the day today we should see some sunny espouse a bit later on the day but we do have this risk a snapshot of showers developing and the still very much a yellow weather warning in place has been issued by the Met office until midnight tonight to take Kathy out about race day and standing water around. Degree Celsius today would be feeling warm and humid and that overnight there showers and clear into the sea then I think we're going to see some spousal push through again into the hours with lows I've not seen degree Celsius temperatures are definitely more manageable than we're seeing them the past few days and then into Monday Well a similar start quite a mixed bag actually for the start the week since spousal showers Northwood So as the day goes on they'll feel it we'll just have a gentle south westerly breeze today with highs tomorrow of 23 degrees Celsius and as ever there is more online at B.B.C. U.K. Forward slash Sheffield. Hello and welcome to the B.B.C. Weather show with me Donovan sitting in for Paul Hudson on the show today through some of being so far I'll be speaking to a meteorologist who say you so much 2019 has been amazingly normal so why animals not adapting to climate change I'll be meeting a biologist from leaves who's worried some of the mills could become extinct snow ice and deadlock seas I'll be speaking to one of the stars of David outnumbers film about fake snow disappearing sea ice and a memorial plaque to a dead glossier plus weeding writing and arithmetic and why children are being encouraged to take up gardening for the sake of a planet that's all coming up on the B.B.C. a friend of the show Simon how you. Kaylee Very well thank you but how do I do if you remember Simon you gave me some of my weather training back many many moons ago but you don't remember me told you. Was that what it was that was that at the B.B.C. Weather Center it was indeed Yeah I was probably did knowing well my hand in the air every 2 minutes of talking irritating. What you know what I do remember I do remember now that you said that that was a few years ago wasn't it yes and I remember you very well so I know you're going to you going to enjoy these questions and enjoy talking about what your little about. Him and now we've got everything haven't we over the past few weeks he's been cool it's been hot we've had violent thunderstorms trencher rain even flooding and tell me Simon is they said a normal British summer. You know what I think it actually ease and the faith that I'm getting through from people around the region of farmers in particular they're telling me that while the weather is quite annoyed because we get in showers and thunderstorms and bits of rain and then a few dry day use Actually they're all sanctioned what the seas basically what the British summer ease about so much when you look at the stats that's how things are stacking up at the moment it does look as if we were running down this earth nor will British summer and almost I think you know despite as high heat this week and some thunderstorms I think we'll look back on this summer and almost it will go into the midst of times has been one that will probably figure. Because it will be so normal because we have so many variations no matter what the season in this country here is saying 4 seasons in one day really does go to that we get so many so many different types of weather Oh absolutely yeah I mean that would be the fact that this week we've seen temperatures very widely you know from the low twenty's opens the low thirty's some parts of the South of England have seen temperatures in the mid to high thirty's so we do get these variations and it was only a week ago that we're talking about temperatures a sort of 151617 degrees so you can get as you say so much the 4 Seasons in one day scenarios and it's a classic set up for British Summer Time conditions and you know we look back to June to member how wet it was in June it was 190 percent of average rainfall across northeastern parts of England so it was a very wet month but actually July if you take away the bits of rain that we had over the last couple of days and also bits of rain that we might see this weekend actually July's been quite a dry month those 2 I kind of balancing each other out and this is the way that the British weather goes that you know once one month you might be an incompetent next month with one conditions or it might be dry it might be wet but actually overall when you look at it these variations it's what makes our weather great what makes it such sights of course is not an easy normal but you can expect can't wait when we get heat waves in the future it will be a little bit hotter and when we get downpours they'll be a little bit heavier Sopranos the extremes of our weather are becoming less normal would you would you agree with that. Now you see I'm not one of boys completely into it I think that modeling for climate change certainly suggests the extremes become more noticeable and the temperatures generally are shown as as going on that would trend I think where I have a difficulty is when we start attributes in individual events to climate change. And saying Oh that's that's evidence of climate change I think it's very very difficult not only impossible to it to be attributing those events than to say oh that is what climate change was and I think a lot of that comes down to humans just having short memories you know that we know the famous summer of 1706 when it was it was very hot and it was very hot for a long long time what was experienced recently is just short bursts of warmer weather and that's probably what you would expect from a from an average British summer we must also not forget as well that when we see some of the east very high temperatures the records we've got to look at where those stations are located because it's somewhere like an airport well efforts of expanding city centers have expanded over the last few years and that means the the he tunneling effects heat island effect actually boosts temperatures so those temperatures will be higher the stations that I always look at see where the long term trends are and the one stuck in the middle of nowhere where there's not been any building taking place recently and never look at those trends and yet then I absolutely agree there isn't a not we're trending temperature that shows up those stations but is it notable at the moment it's getting that way so I think we just got a little bit a little bit careful when we execute things to or say that this is evidence of climate change those long term trends Yes Definitely there's a rise in temperature wise that was a long winded answer to this very simple. And you know we can't attribute any warm weather event to climate change but overall trends as you say we certainly count so you you mentioned earlier that you provide a special focus of course for the farming industry many of whom struggled last year I went to see a potato farmer authoritarian farmer they really didn't like last summer so sold it but some didn't how the farmers coping this year what are they saying about the ship potentially compared with last year well the feedback aren't getting any so it's hard work on the farm is hard work anyways. But it's hard work just trying to work around the dry weather windows so where is we not going in the situation that we're in last year where many farmers didn't like it we got days on end of dry weather which was great for making hay but for pretty much everything else it was pretty useless what they're now saying is that actually we'd quite like those 4 and 5 days strung together yes not over the period of a month but 4 or 5 days put together so we can get that A it would be pretty useful and I think all the focus now is going to be honest we get into war gets to be good in September and we think about harvest we don't want things to go either to dry or to wet because that makes it difficult to lift crops in those conditions so I think overall at the moment I would have say farmers are happy frustrated as always by the weather but what change very carefully now for the scripts the course of 6 week period that sad just to make sure that we don't fall into the extremes of dry or wet weather and incidentally the the longer range modeling moments you know this isn't using say we'd all circuits this is no longer range modeling that we see coming in here the general trend is that there aren't particularly any really extreme showing in there it may be a little bit drier than average but I think generally for farmers they're going to be pleased at the end of the season although they will have to work hard for it but I think overall I think they can be pretty happy certainly happier than the world last year and how is the weather this summer in one particular hot weather that we've had this week affecting other industries like aviation in shipping. The well the ideation the shipping industry is obviously affected when temperatures reach certain levels the performance of aircraft changes the performance of of engines and chips changes as well so they're always looking at these extremes of temperatures and certainly when we've got warmer conditions the efficiency of engines actually drops quite significantly that they generally better when we're in that sort of height scenes low twenty's. Area once we start to get a book then we can start softening particles things like goods at ports as well to sit on the sun supports him in warm conditions they can be perishable so suddenly telling becomes of the S S And to get those things loaded onto the ship so to get some ships that suddenly becomes very important as well and that's why some of the lives so just at the moment he making sure that those deliveries arrive to ports in time to get a wife importance on and the temperatures don't really do too much damage to the goods that they're offloading or loading onto the ships so I mean I could talk to you for a lot longer but we have to day that thank you so much has been great catching out . Let's not leave it so long next time like you. Done time and finding keening from weather Web dot net and the web to school easy easy go. Go. Like The Truman Show. This man whom. The only way the show with me Katie Donovan Crispin Hall this week has in it I have been sweltering particularly at night so spare a thought for all 30 friends I know the cats Gary and Tony of course I've been struggling in here they've been lowing around have been finding cool bits of the patio to to sleep in and I've been giving them wet food rather than trying to trying to hydrate them but you know what Gary and Tony of the many reasons all the lucky ones can. Pad with some species well not coping at all with hate and by hate I mean more of the ongoing trend of temperatures rising and climate change while many animals are not adapting to our changing climate fast enough and some could be faced with extinction as according to research by a biologist at the University of Leeds Chris Hazell joins me now as head of the CHRIS Hi there so let's talk about which animals and species you've been looking at in particular Ok was 1st of all it's important to point out of this was a big analysis done by a huge number of academics led by Victoria Ratajczak at the lead in its Institute in Germany and I'm really I'm just a small part of that study but what we did was we brought together really as much information as we could get about that ways that different species were responding to climate change that's the 1st thing but also how those responses related to the success of those species in the long term so we had species like the birds which ended up being the focus of the study but also insects and mammals and amphibians and all kinds of other taxes so a real big data dredge to see what we could find out about the natural world more generally according to a report earlier this year a 1000000 species are threatened with extinction 25 percent of mammals 14 percent to 27 percent of shellfish and 31 percent of sharks and rays that's terrifying isn't it that is terrifying when you think that sharks and rays and sea birds and mammals on land play these really vital roles for ecosystem function but of course the other massive group by most of the insects and that's my personal group I work on insects mostly and the the evidence seems to be that they're declining at a an even greater rate but we don't have good evidence for why that's happening and of course the insects play just as important a role if not more so than the sharks and rays and mammals and birds because they pollinate our crops they're important food for a lot of those large animals. And really we need to undertake more research to find out what it is that's driving the declines across the animal kingdom and what we can do about it is it fair to say that some species adapt better than others some thinking that if a bird's habitat is destroyed or if the climate they're living in warms up they can fly elsewhere where is an insect can't travel very far if their environment changes obviously yes you're absolutely right that the insects struggle to to move in terms of space but the advantage of the insects have is often that they live for a short period of time and there are many many more of them and that means that they can take advantage of evolution to adapt their way potentially out of bad situations whereas the birds and mammals that live a lot longer they have fewer generations and so evolution at often a lot more slowly in those groups so how quickly can you expect those evolutionary changes in for example insects I was he is you mentioned a lot longer for bigger animals but in the the insect world they are they quite quick evolutionary changes this is a really central question for evolution biologists and conservation biologists perhaps the classic example of insect evolution which shows how quickly they can adapt is the peppered moth this is the example that a lot of people learn about in school what you have is a moth that originally was white and black speckled but largely white and used to live in a tree that was largely white as well when the Industrial Revolution swept through the country the cases all the trees got covered in soot and suddenly these why it's not really easy to see for birds the birds sweep down and eat the motts and so suddenly that the most are really struggling and what happens is a really quick evolutionary change where those moths almost over over a period of a few years really turn black and that allows them to camouflage on those black trees and escape predation then the reverse happens because we clean up our air that's less so the trees turn white again and the the black moths then turn white again so we know. That many insects can undergo quite small changes like that over quite short periods of time but climate change habitat fragmentation pollution all of these problems this isn't just trees turning color this is a whole a whole smorgasbord of problems that humans are throwing animals and so the question isn't necessarily can adapt to one particular problem like for example temperature but how are they adapting to this big suite of problems that we've caused and is the bottom line really that the animal kingdom simply cannot adapt quick and I think we have very little evidence that they can I think that climate change is continuing apace that's not showing any signs of slowing down and we have the certainly the data in our in our study that's just come out suggests that of the 13 species which we have really good data for and that's 12 species of bird and then the road Year of those 9 species seem to be threatened only 4 of them seem to be doing seem to be resilient in the longer term so even for these birds that we studied well they seem to be threatened as well and that includes some really common species So for example those that might be at risk include magpies and bluetits really there's some very common species on the Great as well that might be a threat is easy to get very upset when you see a particular bird or mammal and the thought of it becoming extinct and that is really sad on on or on a human on a personal level but animals mean more to the planet not don't they balance out our ecosystems What are the repercussions for the human race if we don't fix this problem we have to acknowledge that humans are at the top of some great chain of being we're not the apex in any sort of moral sense we are part of our living world and when you start to unpick the tangled web of interactions that all these animals are involved in then things started ballpark quite. Quickly Paul and axes be the example that people seem to be appreciating a lot more now after recent studies of their declines but the fact is that the natural world is so complex it's really difficult to tell what's going to happen if we start to lose individual species there's a famous saying why out of Leopold that the 1st stage of intelligent incurring is to leave things well I don't really that that's the cautionary principle that we should be applying rather than trying to see how far we can push nature before something breaks in date but worrying thoughts thank you so much for joining me Dr Chris hostle from Leeds University. Would. And we don't this is a coming out we've been experiencing high temperatures have a way of the last few days but what about the Arctic and the Antarctic Well they've been feeling the heat too which is not good news for them all the rest of the world and the shepherd climate expert from Leeds University has hay with me and I'll be chatting to him in just a moment's time this is the weather show with me he Donovan. On B.B.C. Radio Shack Chris into the boss here we're telling our Brad jokes today on the way down without telling jokes great if you take a moment in the race and there is your glowing red tape why is. Because it is a game. Because it is. A. Monday morning from 7. Donors on the B.B.C. . What's happening to our colleagues both the North Pole on the South Pole the feeling the effect of global warming with rising temperatures causing ice melt in both the Arctic and the Antarctic pull spoken about the show about Lassie is speeding up I am glad she is slowing down and