sustained winds of iao mph at the moment, but it's forecast to strengthen, with wind gusts getting upfall friday morning north carolina, but the effects will be felt up and down the mid—atlantic coast, with a risk of flooding, and those damaging winds as well. here in the uk, we've got a cold front sinking its way slowly southwards today, and that's going to have an effect on the temperatures. yesterday we saw highs of 25 degrees in both london and exeter, as well, but today we're looking at highs of around 18 degrees. so a 7 degrees celsius drop in temperature. not that it's going to feel cold, but it will feel a good deal cooler. this is how we have the weather over the next few hours for the early risers. a lot of cloud around and outbreaks of rain. always heaviest across north—west england and the north—west of wales as well, but there'll be plenty of heavy showers working into north—west scotland over the next few hours, with a slice of clearer weather across northern ireland, northern england and eastern scotland. it's here where we'll have those temperatures dipping down into s

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if you are to scrape a centimetre off of say the antarctic, that is iao billion tonnes of water and thatquite subtle and you need a very precise tool to do it, and that is what icesat-z tool to do it, and that is what icesat—2 is all about. tool to do it, and that is what icesat-2 is all about. and when will we start to see that data coming back? well, they're just in the process as you say at the moment of launching it into space so it will go around the poles obviously and then they will have to check it out. the spacecraft went up with a door covering its instrument, they will have to open that in the coming week and then they will start to warm the laserup and start and then they will start to warm the laser up and start to test it. probably in the next few weeks they will start to take some measurements, but of course it is not an instant result, this. you have to follow the seasons. they get big seasons in the antarctic and also in the arctic. we have seen in the arctic how the summer sea ice gets very small and then it grows again in the winter, and you need a long series of measu