A record high. Its risen to just under 21 Degrees Celsius, or nearly 70 fahrenheit, in august. Thats far above the average for this time of year, and researchers say it could have serious consequences for the global environment. Our Climate Editor Justin Rowlatt reports. Theyve been taking measurements of Ocean Temperatures here in plymouth for more than a century and for the last 50 or so years, theyve showed a slow but steady increase up about a third of a degree a decade. Have we got a reading for today yet, do you know . I heard them Say Something around 18 or 19 which is. Wow . Four Degrees Higher than it should be. Its been a similar pattern globally. Rising Sea Temperatures and increasing numbers of Marine Heatwaves, and it has just reached a new peak 20. 96 Degrees Celsius the highest Global Average sea temperature ever recorded. The worlds warming waters are a dangerous trend, say experts. Peoples perspective is that the ocean, you know, its so big, its so vast that it can buf
let s ta ke let s take you to those live pictures from tel aviv where we expect to hear from lloyd austin, the us defence secretary, who is on a visit to israel. he s been holding talks there, and we are being told that the news conference will get under way any time soon. so we are going to keep that box up there so we can go to the news conference whenever it comes in. the united states is becoming increasingly isolated in its strong support for israel s military campaign. on sunday, britain, germany and france called for work towards a sustainable ceasefire . this is a live shot, looking across at gaza. we have seen images like this of smoke across the skyline through the day. hamas officials say that 110 palestinians were killed in israeli airstrikes onjabalia the biggest refugee camp in gaza on sunday. israel has issued no direct response but say it s been targeting terrorist infrastructure. on the programme today we ll get more on conditions in gaza and the diplo
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shawn. the executive rails visit as a people living in the crash site say they are frustrated both the state and federal response for their also blaming a railroad for this disaster. this is fema is sending a support team to the area after first denying ohio governor mike to winds at for a disaster declaration. eric is live the site with the very latest. actually where the meeting was. what do we know about fema s response and what they are doing today? the incident response team will be arriving here today that is a welcome news for folks here who have been asking for all of the help they can get in response to this disaster. here is the america east policy this morning on fox and friends. i guess they are finally showing up. i think it is a little late. i m glad they re coming but they should be here long before this. also in town as you mentioned ceo of the railway responsible for this disaster that is sent cancer-causing chemicals into the town s air, water, soil. o
clear dark skies by night translate to blue sunny skies by day. it s not the start of the meteorological spring just yet but still some springlike weather watch pictures coming in. this one from the scottish borders, a touch of frost on the grass and some snowdrops basking in all of that sunshine we are seeing at the moment in leicester and it s across the central swathes of the uk were so for the midlands, wales, much of northern england, particularly north west england, as you can see from the satellite picture we have a bit of a sunshine sandwich going on so more cloud towards the nous, some cloud across southern counties as well. this cloud is set to retreat further southwards and eastwards through the afternoon, so the drizzle clearing up, brighter skies, rain moving into north west england pushing southwards and eastwards. these are round about the average temperatures for the time of year but it will feel a bit cooler than that with the added wind chill and we are expe