seen happening over the past few months i'm joined here at the reservoir in thatcham by professor hannah clokee scientist and hydrologist at the university of reading here in the uk. hannah, we of course are shocked by what has happened but there is an element from climate scientists of we told you so. so can we both be shocked but also not surprised at these events? if you see the scale of the recent flooding and the recent heat that we have seen and the fires, i mean, it is impossible not to be shocked by this kind of thing. but you know we do know that these types of rainfall and these types of heat events and fires are possible. we have seen some of this in the historical record as well. but when we look towards the future of climate we know that these things are going to happen more often and we need to be more prepared. of course, the rainfall has been extreme but are we prepared enough for these events? for example, in the little things like this reservoir it is significant in stopping a town getting floods. so are we prepared enough for these extreme rainfall events? it is really frust