talking about that tonight with the weather man right here professor who is director of the institute of meteorology here at berlin's free university it's good to have you here at the big table with yesterday a spanish meteorologist tweeted that hell is climbing is it really going to be as dramatic as it's well there is certain places and specially in spain that could have really records temperatures with a strong air flow from the south that is exceptional in some regions but heat waves and short duration heat waves is something that we often have so this is something we have to get to if we are not yet i mean. to have a heat wave in this in the summer is not unusual but you know it's only june. here in northern europe we've been having heat really high temperatures already for several 4 weeks so how unusual are these high temperatures at this time of year. they're not that unusual indeed as you know we have had the highest position of the song just last week the longest year and when you consider heat waves that we had before like in 2003 hottest months indeed not only august but also the month be

talk more about what could be done like to turn now to dr over here executive director of the institute for meteorology at berlin's free university a very warm welcome sir why are we seeing these record breaking to. birchers across europe at this stage well it is not really across all you really have a tongue of very hot air coming from north africa which has to do with the lows and highs and their position and their extension and so we get very hot from north africa from the south right into central europe is this is this is happened has this happened before or is this well yes this is a cut quite a common feature the question is just how how hot that is and this is depending on the say temperatures in north africa that they have and under in general ever temperatures of course what this is due to our environment here well we have a high risk again like we had yet last year for heat not heat wave effects like. post fire is we have the risk for people that are not drinking enough and that could like in the heat wave in 2004 ounce a lot of people really had suffered the death and this is something that