will be sympathy for farmers but more than sympathy, that things are produced, the goods, agriculture, crops are produced on farms like this are things we all rely on to be able to go and pick up from our local supermarket shelves stock back to you. it will be a challenge for farmers working in that heat. if they can get out and pick crops, you would not want to do that in these temperatures. a drone shot you can see live, the picture at the cambridge. some of the historic colleges. the ground is dry and yellow as the sun comes up this morning. 38.7 celsius three years ago, the current uk record. it could be smashed today, notjust by a little bit but over lio celsius today or tomorrow. you know you are in cambridge when you find one of these
here ina here in a very sunny cambridge, we arejoined by professor here in a very sunny cambridge, we are joined by professor emily shuckburgh, director of cambridge zero, the university of cambridge s major climate change initiative, research initiative. thank you for coming in. there are lots of people watching this when you are saying, for goodness sake, it is just a couple of sunny summer days, we are all overreacting, what do you say to that? is days, we are all overreacting, what do you say to that? do you say to that? is sadly the sort of temperatures do you say to that? is sadly the sort of temperatures we - do you say to that? is sadly the sort of temperatures we are - do you say to that? is sadly the i sort of temperatures we are likely to experience today and tomorrow are, for some people, potentially deadly. if you are elderly, pregnant, if you have babies or toddlers, those people are particularly vulnerable to these really high temperatures, so this is not something t
transport for london is advising customers to only travel if essential today and tomorrow, due to the high temperatures being forecast. temporary speed restrictions on parts of the network are in place, which will mean a reduced service with delays possible. it comes as the capital expects temperatures up to a0 degrees, and london suffers from the fact towns and cities are usually being a few degrees warmer than rural areas because of the types of building materials used. over 80% of us live in towns and cities. that means that we re exposed to this extra heat and it can be as much as about ten degrees difference between temperature in a city centre and a rural area for a large city. meanwhile, a water company has urged customers to avoid all non essential water use. affinity water said urgent action was needed in areas of essex and hertfordshire to conserve reservoir supplies for everyone but added it was working around the clock to maintain supplies .