The Met office takes a weekly look at the science behind the UK and global weather headlines.

This week Clare Nasir is joined by Meteorologist Aidan McGivern. Together they discuss the trends in UK end of summer weather - and the chances of yet another hot spell. They also look at this weeks global weather headlines, including China's latest heatwave, Indian monsoon anomolies, northwest African monsoon and red alert for rain in New Zealand.

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