the deputy director is samantha burgess, and she joins me tonight from reading in the u. k. samantha, it's good to have you with us before we look to the past, i'd like to focus on the present just for a moment today is october. 5th. scientists are already talking about the heat this month. what are we see? so we're seeing launch anomalies all over the world for the sol, default treva, but we really need to wait and see what happens. the rest of the month september was the timber ever seen the margins making the difference in unprecedented ways. explain what, what does it mean? yes. say september 2023. was the woman september on record. what's really unusual about this month? september 23. was the margin between september 23 and the previous woman september, which was 20. 20 a not much and was half a degree. i know they have a degree probably doesn't sound like very much when temperature records the version that normally any version by point one of the degree past point a 5 is a degree. sorry. this september record, is that because mountain for any number for any yeah, nowada