some low cloud, misty weather. mild night for england and wales much milder than last night for eastern england, no frost here. clearer skies, though, for scotland and northern ireland meanis temperatures will be low enough for a pinch of frost here and there, and some sunshine to start the day on tuesday. that cloud and damp weather across england and wales moves southwards, coming to rest across east anglia and southern england. some late improvements in the day across south wales and the midlands, but more sunshine further north and a few blustery showers blowing into the northwest of scotland. the highest temperatures will actually be in that cloudy, damp weather across southern parts of england. that will clear away, though, overnight. through the rest of the week, northern areas will see the highest temperatures with a stronger atlantic wind. lighter winds further south mean it ll be colder with increasing amounts of mist, fog, and low cloud.
that will soon pass, so don t expect any let up in the warming trend in the years to come. it sometimes feels, when we ve got complex, big problems like this, that there s very little we can do as individuals, but we do have a choice. we can make changes to our lifestyle to reduce our own greenhouse gas emissions, whether that s reducing the amount of meat and dairy that we eat, travelling less by flying or, you know, not taking the car as much and walking and cycling instead. the pact agreed by world leaders at the international climate conference in glasgow in november aims to do just that to cut global emissions. today s confirmation of rising global temperatures is another reminder ofjust how urgent that action is. justin rowlatt, bbc news. before we go, the story of a pilot in los angeles who crash landed on a railway line as a commuter train approached.
the global data collected by european satellites shows 2021 was the fifth hottest year ever recorded, and no surprise here the concentration of warming gases in the atmosphere is continuing to rise, with record levels of both carbon dioxide and methane. the direction of travel is inescapable. just look how temperatures have risen since the beginning of the industrial revolution 170 years ago. that, of course, is when the world began to burn fossil fuels on a really massive scale, and now look at the last seven years. these latest figures show they were the hottest seven years ever recorded, an average of 1.2 degrees centigrade above pre industrial levels. and the bad news is, a temporary cooling event in the pacific ocean actually lowered temperatures very marginally last year.