and it s not just and it s notjust the uk temperature record that is likely to topple today and tomorrow. we are also looking at individual records for scotland, england and wales all being broken, and if anything tomorrow looks like it will be a bit hotter than today. i will have all the details throughout the programme. good morning. farms across the country, like this one in suffolk, are already dealing with a very dry first half of the year, as you can see from the reservoir levels behind me. now comes the heatwave. i will be looking at the effect it is having on the food they produce that we all rely on. also on breakfast this morning, one of the conservative mps vying to be party leader will be knocked out of the running today, when the latest round of voting takes place. in sport, how rory mcilroy let it slip away on the final day at st andrews, as cameron smith pockets a cool £2 million winner s cheque for winning the open. good morning. welcome to cambridge where th
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the studio. he has the latest on people having to do it because it is their living. not looking the part as much as you, looking fabulous, you really are. i will find you one. they are lying around all over the place. as things stand, all the fixtures are due to be played. we have england playing in the cricket. their series against south africa is due to go ahead. spare a thought for those in the tour de france. they were having to put up with a0 degrees temperatures yesterday. extreme conditions being felt by those competing across the board in sport. some pretty benign conditions on the final day of the open at st andrews. rory mcilroy, joint leader heading into the final round, unable to capitalise on the favourable weather. the man who did, the australian cameron smith, who produced a superb final round to claim his first major. as our sports correspondent
the warnings that are out there. we have that balance where we might not see very much good weather and we want to enjoy it, but it s. we re talking about temperatures that we ve not experienced in this country ever, never mind for a long time. our bodies, our houses, our culture, our way of life arejust not geared up for it. but we re going to have to get used to it. the greenhouse gases we put into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels trap the sun s energy and warm the earth at a rate of about a quarter of a degree every ten years. well, heatwaves is one of the clearest signs in extreme weather of human influence on climate. it s one of the extreme weather events that we can be most confident about are being affected by rising global temperatures. so is it too late for us to turn this around? it s absolutely not too late because future warming is determined by future emissions. if we stop dumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the world will stop warming. it s that simple.
pictures of the wildfires. extreme heatin pictures of the wildfires. extreme heat in spain and portugal and france and now our wind direction is coming up from the south so it is pulling up this heat in doing so so our temperatures were rocket through the course of today. it is notjust today. today we could see a0 degrees, somewhere in east anglia, the midlands and the london area, but tonight, because this heat will be in place, the temperatures will not fall away too much. that means that tonight will be hot and that, too, can be dangerous because there is no respite for your body to cool down. so tomorrow we start off with higher temperatures and this heat continues to travel further northwards so the temperatures tomorrow, as a result, could also be higher, particularly around the east midlands, east anglia, eastern england, the vale of york, that kind of area. for england, the vale of york, that kind of area. ., ., ., ~ england, the vale of york, that kind of area. ., ., . ~ i.,