we know from past studies that there is a link between climate and meningitis outbreak in the african meningitis belt. and from this knowledge we are looking at the temperature, humidity, wind and dust. we are making a map for areas the meningitis outbreak is expected during the dry season. giving an early warning for meningitis can give preparation to make a decision for vaccination and for alerting districts to be ready. it can help to stop the outbreak. this joint project between african and british scientists will play a part in the goal to eradicate meningitis in africa by 2030. this time on weather world i m looking at how this large farm
the damage it caused is on a scale so unusualfor a tornado in europe. thankfully, this tornado in canada injune is only reported to have caused minimal crop damage but was certainly an incredible sight from a distance. and let s not forget the southern hemisphere winter. a rare widespread snowfall brought the crowds out in southern brazil injuly, many of them seeing snow for the first time. now to some of your weather watcher pictures from northern ireland s hottest day on record. when the temperature reached 31.3 celsius onjuly 21. this heatwave saw northern ireland and parts of wales and england covered by a new met office extreme heat warning, designed to highlight the danger prolonged heat can have on people s health. still to come on weather world. no time for delay and no room
became the first european city to appoint a heat officer. i asked her what it had been like there. it s been devastating to a large extent because it feels like it s a premonition for the future. it s the beginning of a future that can be very catastrophic and very, very hard for us to survive in around the mediterranean. and the problem is that the more the forests burn, the higher the temperature is and the less the humidity so it s a vicious circle. it s what they have been telling us for years now, all the scientists talking about climate change. that this could start getting out of control. i mean, the devastation is also the fact that we haven t been prepared, right? if we were better prepared, we wouldn t have this amount of destruction and this amount of ravaging of our ecosystems
of a moot point anyway, i think, going forward. the wmo is also looking into the new europe high temperature from italy in august. randy cerveny says it s important to get their investigations into extremes right. we need to know extremes so we can build a better world. we know that the climate is changing and we can in partjudge that climate change by the quality of the observations that are being used to assess it. in a few months from now, a summit of world leaders to be held here in the uk will be hugely important in formulating a global response to climate change with the united nations saying that only a combined international effort can avert a climate catastrophe. the conference, called cop26, will be held in glasgow, a city which saw flash flooding after thunderstorms in august. we ve asked some of the delegates from around the world to give
cubic metres of water. scientists say a warmer world means more frequent, intense rainfall. and july was the world s hottest month in records going back 142 years. a united nations report in august said without immediate deep cuts to emissions, limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 or even 2 degrees will be beyond reach. well, to help put into context everything that we have seen happening over the past few months i m joined here at the reservoir in thatcham by professor hannah cloke, a climate scientist and hydrologist at the university of reading here in the uk. hannah, we of course are shocked by what has happened but there is an element from climate scientists of we told you so. so can we both be shocked but also not surprised at these events? if you see the scale of the recent flooding and the recent heat that we have seen and the fires, i mean, it is impossible not to be shocked by this kind of thing. but you know we do know that these types of rainfall and these types of heat