and are designed to fill up with flood water to prevent it rushing unchecked towards the town of thatchams what happened back in 2007 when over 1000 homes were flooded here as nearly 100 millimetres of rain fell in just 2a hours. the flood prompted this scheme to build these reservoirs with this one alone capable of holding 25,000 cubic metres of water. scientists say a warmer world means more frequent, intense rainfall. and july was the world's hottest month in records going back 142 years. a united nations report in august said without immediate deep cuts to emissions, limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 or even 2 degrees will be beyond reach. well, to help put into context everything that we have seen happening over the past few months i'm joined here at the reservoir in thatcham by professor hannah cloke, a climate 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 t