on it, it's been mixed with other man—made snow from snow guns and hopefully some natural stuff, which makes it bind and makes a good skiable surface. and so, what do you hope about the future—proofing of the industry, where you are able to make snow at higher temperatures like this? snowmaking is key to the future of snow sports here in scotland. with a variable climate on some of the lower slopes where we operate, it provides a good run down to the base station. thank you so much, mikey, for showing us your operations here. now, have you ever wondered how easy it is to measure the depth of snow? it's not quite as simple as you might think. i'll take a look at that later in the programme. now to the part of the world where weather extremes reached a new level in 2021 — british columbia in western canada. in november, record rain as an atmospheric river of moisture from the pacific brought flash flooding to the same areas that only a few months earlier were in the grip of an historic heatwave. it's coming this way, fast! let's get out of here! the fires that followed that heatwave had catastrophic consequences for lytton, the town that set a new canada temperature record of