spurs lose to aston villa, and have now won only two of their past seven matches. good morning. and happy new year. today is a cold start for many. it will be a sunny one when we lose the showers. the outlook for the rest of the week remains fairly changeable. details later in the programme. good morning. it s monday, january 2nd. senior doctors are warning that some a&e departments are in a complete state of crisis because of the extreme pressures facing the nhs this winter. the royal college of emergency medicine says it s impossible to provide the best standard of care, and there is no doubt that patients are being harmed. louisa pilbeam has the details. patients lying in a&e corridors. .ambulance delays, and staff who say they re at breaking point, and surging flu cases, all at a critical time for the nhs. the diagnosis from a leading emergency care doctor? unless there s more investment in services, patients are at risk. there is no doubt that when we are trying to tre
comprehensive collections on meteorology anywhere in the world. i am joined now by mike kendon, a climate information scientist here at the met office, and mike, we are amongst this huge collection of historical weather data. looking at some of these very oldest weather observations, thinking particularly about temperature, how is that used alongside our newest data to compare how our climate is changing? sure, it s a great question, isn t it? when we look at these records here, these are from durham 0bservatory back in 1890, and it can be quite difficult to read at times, but they were very systematic and careful. when we think about observations, we think about how they are used for weather forecasting, for the weather forecast we generate in the met office, there are observations coming in from a huge load of sources and of course observations are also very important to understand our climate and if we want to understand our climate of the future, the first step is we need to unders
the pilots, so we show them the satellite images and the charts that are made elsewhere in hq and then we also make our own products and show them those as well. more to come from coningsby later when i will be talking to pilots of aircraft new and old about how heat and severe weather can affect operations here. that new record of 40.3 celsius at coningsby is a significant moment in weather history. but every temperature reading, every weather observation plays its part in our understanding of how our climate is changing and that is why i have come here, to the met office s national meteorological archive in exeter. it is home to daily uk weather reports from 1860 to the present day, among a vast collection of data that make up one of the most comprehensive collections on meteorology anywhere in the world. i am joined now by mike kendon, a climate information scientist here at the met office, and mike, we are amongst this huge collection of historical weather data. looking at some of