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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 in that it is where i began my broadcasting career but to british meteorology, this july at this stevenson screen, we recorded the uk highest temperature of 40.3 celsius. it has been a day of record—breaking temperatures across the uk. more than a0 celsius for the first time. july the 19th, the uk's hottest day and as temperatures soared after the driest...

The most haunting image from that hot summer is of spanish farmer angel, hailed as a hero when he dug a trench with his bulldozer to stop the fire from spreading and he suffered severe burns and tragically died from his injuries in october. figures show the excess deaths reported across europe from the excessive heat waves numbered more than 20,000. raf coningsby is home to front line combat ready squadrons protecting uk airspace whatever the weather so it's crucial we get accurate forecasts. here we are in the met office forecast office, 20 years since i've been here. it has changed a little....

Expected in the uk. here it was even more incredible and remarkable because our previous maximum was nowhere near, so it was extreme for the uk as a whole. even more extreme for the local area. at what point did you realise coningsby was going to be the hottest place ever recorded in the uk? it has to go through quite vigorous quality control before we officially get the record so by the evening, we were pretty sure no one beat that 40.3 record but we were not officially holding the uk record until some days later when they came under the control on the observation equipment. i did not think i...

In headquarters and we make our own product and show them those as well. more to come from coningsby later when i speak to pilots of aircraft new and old to see how heat and extreme weather effects operations. that new record of 40.3 is a significant moment in weather history. but every temperature reading, every weather observation plays its part in our understanding of how the climate is changing and that is why i am here at the national meteorological archive in exeter. it is home to daily uk weather reports from 1860 up to the present day, among a vast collection of data that makes up one ...

How is that used alongside new data to compare how the climate is changing? great question. when we look at the records, these are from durham 0bservatory in 1890 and it can be quite difficult to read but they were very systematic. when we think about observations, we think about how they are used for weather forecasting, but the forecast we generate in the met office, there is observations coming in from a huge array of sources and it's important to understand the climate and if we want to understand the future climate, first we need to understand the climate now and we need to understand the...