well, for more on the what's happening in focused on net spring in our, whether presenter jeff harrington, who joins us here now in the steve. jeff, just how bad has this been? well, you know, kerry, for some parts of cindy providence, this is historic. never before have we seen these amounts of rain? you know, about 5 hours north of karachi, almost 2 meters of rain has been registered in 2 months. and of course, we know there's still another month for the monsoon season to go. now if we talk about bucket stones largest city karachi recently picked up 500 millimeters of rain, but kerry for the 1st time in 55 years that happened. the forecast is calling for potentially by the end of september, that karate could very well have a meter of rain. by the time the monsoon season is all set in done. so as we're seeing these images, every province somehow, some way has been hit with this flooding, it's impacted tens of millions of people really top to bottom rate across pockets done. and why has this year been so much worse? so we've tracked a number of monsoon depressions. kerry, basically what h

a more now on the extreme temperatures across china without when the presenter jeff harrington. well, this has been unrelenting heath. it's now lasted for more than 2 months. so here's what's going on. we've got this plume of heat rate across the yangtze river valley, whether you're in western central or eastern areas, everyone is feeling it. what we know is that the heat started earlier this year. it's been more intense, and it's last, the longer a lot of comparisons are be made to 2013. that's when a heat wave stretch for 62 days, but we've already blown past that and we're coming up to 70 days. and there's still more indication that it will carry through here some proof of just how hot it's been in chunk ching, a 45 degrees. so we've got temperature is a good 10 degrees above where they should be. and is there any release coming? here's the forecast on saturday. keep in mind darker the red, the higher the temperature. here's the yangtze river valley and we've still got temperatures in the 40s. okay, let me take the colors off and show you the precipitation rate. now a week li

well, for more on what's happening in pakistan, let's talk to our whether presented jeff harrington here in the studio. so what is going on? you know, kerry, this is one for the record books parts of pockets on syn providence. this is historic monsoon range that we've seen. so we take a closer look at the numbers right now where there's almost 2 meters of rain over the past 2 months. and we know there's still another month of the monsoon season to go now for pocket stones largest city karachi for the 1st time in 55 years, picking up half a meter of rain. and the indication is, by the end of september, the city of lights could see a meter of rain. if that happens, it would be historic. so we talked a lot about the numbers. these are the scenes we're seeing in sin providence here. so really, from karachi, hydra bad to watch shot right through to jacob about just rhodes, clogged with water here. we know every province in bucharest on somehow some way has been impacted tens of millions of people impacted here. so what's been going on, we've had a number of monsoon depressions. so what exactl

chunking, china for more now on the extreme temperatures across china with our weather presenter jeff harrington. well, this has been unrelenting heath. it's now last fit for more than 2 months. so here's what's going on. we've got this plume of heat rate across the yangtze river valley, whether you're in western central or eastern areas, everyone is feeling it. what we know is that the heat started earlier this year, it's been more intense, and it's last, the longer a lot of comparisons are be made to 2013. that's when a heat wave stretch for $62.00 days. but we've already blown past that and we're coming up to 70 days, and there's still more indication that it will carry through here some proof of just how hot it's been in chunk ching, a 45 degrees. so we've got temperature is a good 10 degrees above where they should be. and is there any release coming? here's the forecast on saturday. keep in mind darker the red, the higher the temperature. here's the yangtze river valley and we've still got temperatures in the 40s. okay, let me take the colors off and show you the precipitation rate. now a

over to al jazeera is whether reported jeff harrington. he's here live on set. this almost looks like something from hollywood. is this a real thing? this wasn't for the pictures. did the dow pharaoh, it's incredible. just northwest of los angeles, sammy, so we got to remember this really comes down to whether one or one that is a hot air rises, cold air, seeing so because we're dealing with a want to party rather of you, we do via but you have to have the right conditions for it, so we've got this hot, dry air, then remove all the phone and a mobile phone all caught on camera. so he's got this incredible video, but we've got this hot, dry air rising, powerful winds are just rushing off of the mountains. we have some of the pictures that we can show you in. so when these winds and the fire meet, this is a result, sammy, we see that it just spinning around a fire nato if you will. so that's the winds, that's the dry air. and that's what we're seeing again, just northwest of los angeles. so some pretty incredible video there, but also want to take it from north am

well, let's get now more from our weather presenter jeff harrington. joining us here in the pseudo. so jeff, how about is it will during, remember, just a few weeks ago, london registered that unprecedented 40 degrees. not going to be as bad this time around. so let's talk about why that is. that's because this time we're tapping into air cooler air. if you can call it that from the mid atlantic, but a few weeks ago we had hot air coming up from africa. so that's what gave us the unprecedented heat. but still we're setting records here. so in plymouth, new all time temperature record on thursday, 32.2 and not far away from the 1st time. registering 30 degrees, but the peak of the heat is really coming on saturdays. so here's a look at our forecast london. we got your pencil then for 36 degrees as when we're going to see some relief. it won't be until monday and a bit of a catch $22.00 here. so let's run through this thunder. downpours across both the islands of ireland and britain. this concerns us because as we've been talking about dry is july on record for some in both central and

here's where the presenter jeff harrington. well, it's one for the record books, parts of pakistan, sin province. this has been record monsoon, rain, so never before and some spots. if we've seen this amount of rain nearly 2 meters in 2 months, of course, we know there's still a month another month to go for the monsoon season. now as for pakistan's largest city karachi recently registered about half a meter of rain for the 1st time in 55 years. and the indication is that by the end of september, you could reach one meter of rain. so that would be historic. so, lot of numbers here, let's show you some of the pictures out of sin province. so from karachi to hyderabad, you op shop right through to jacob, a bad, truthfully, every province in pockets on somehow some way has been impacted by these flooding, effecting tens of millions of people. so we've had a number of monsoon depression. so what that is is we get this plug of re move away from the and bar. it intensifies in the baby and gall and crosses rate over northern india. th