benedict xvi, who he says is very ill. the vatican says benedict s condition has worsened in recent hours. you are watching bbc news. here s weather world. this time on weather world, we are at raf coningsby which set the uk s highest temperature record this summer during our hottest heatwave. and i will be finding out what it was like that day and how heat and other severe weather affects operations here. i am here at the uk s national meteorological archive and i will be finding out how that new record temperature and all weather observations are used to paint a picture of the uk and the world s changing climate. if we want to understand our climate of the future, the first step is we need to understand our climate now and we also need to understand our climate going back into the past. all these sleeping bags and tents are for people in pakistan still homeless after one of the country s most devastating floods. i will report on 2022 s biggest storms and look at what happen
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
so we have got all of those standardised and scientifically robust observations, just like the 40.3 from coningsby earlier this year. how has that fed into models to create a bigger picture on a wider scale of what is happening to our climate? we calculate values across the whole of the uk. if we calculate an average of all those points, that can provide us with a uk statistic. these maps show long term average, annual mean temperature for, on the left, 1961 1990, and on the right, 1991 to 2020. comparing these two averaging periods is how the darker reds, the warmer areas, the areas have expanded across a larger extent of the map. between these two periods, the uk has warmed by roughly one degree. 2022 will go down in the history books, not only because it was the first time we broke that 40 celsius barrier, but also its likely to be the hottest year on record in the uk. we shouldn t necessarily be too surprised by that, because it follows the pattern of what we might expect as our cl
and on the right, 1991 to 2020. comparing these two averaging periods is how the darker reds, the warmer areas, the areas have expanded across a larger extent of the map. between these two periods, the uk has warmed by roughly one degree. 2022 will go down in the history books, not only because it was the first time we broke that 40 celsius barrier, but also its likely to be the hottest year on record in the uk? we shouldn t necessarily be too surprised by that, because it follows the pattern of what we might expect as our climate warms. we expect more high temperature extremes of this type. so this is showing the uk average daily temperature over the course of the year. the black line in the middle shows the long term average that we might typically expect. the areas in red show the times of year which have been warmer than average. the areas in blue show where it has been colder than average and what is immediately apparent
these maps show long term average, annual mean temperature for, on the left, 1961 1990, and on the right, 1991 to 2020. comparing these two averaging periods to the darker reds, the warmer areas, the areas have expanded across a larger extent of the map. between these two periods, the uk has warmed by roughly one degree. 2022 will go down in the history books, not only because it was the first time we broke that 40 celsius barrier, but also it s likely to be the hottest year on record in the uk? we shouldn t necessarily be too surprised by that, because it follows the pattern of what we might expect as our climate warms. we expect more high temperature extremes of this type. so this is showing the uk average daily temperature over the course of the year. the black line in the middle shows the long term average that we might typically expect. the areas in red show the times of year which have been warmer than average.