We find out about the extreme weather events that are happening around the world. We speak to experts from the weather, climate, tech, and disinformation teams to ask how we can better predict and possibly prevent them.Image: A table and chair burns as a home catches fire from the Palisades wildfire in Pacific Palisades, California, USA, 7 January 2025 (Credit: Alison Dinner/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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This is a special collaboration between the Global News Podcast and the BBC Weather team. I'm Alex Ritson and two weeks on from the start of the LA wildfires, we're looking at the increasing and terrifying number of news stories around the world involving extreme weather. I'm here at the BBC Weather Studio in London with weather reporter and meteorologist Chris Fawkes. Chris, hello. Hello.
Tell me about what you do.
So here at the BBC Weather Centre we produce well over 100 forecasts each day. We broadcast to a couple of hundred million people on TV and radio at the BBC. We're quite a small team actually. We've got 12 presenters that work here around the clock here at the Weather Centre.
And you've got some incredible equipment which we'll tour a little bit later on. We'll come back to you later in this podcast. We're also going to be joined by our tech editor Zoe Kleinman, Greya Jackson from The Climate Question, Marco Silva from BBC Verify and Myra Anubi from People Fixing the World.
We'll be finding out why extreme weather events are on the increase, what role climate change plays and how we can better predict, contain and even prevent some of the most devastating results. But first let's start with a reminder of why all this matters.
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