In the lead up to @cop26 co-hosts Italy have their own weather issues. #COP26Deluge
This morning it was pretty windy on the #Cop26 site, so much so that they took down a banner which had been hanging on this crane.
Fortunately on-site the #COP26 attendees - possibly as many as 10-13,000 a day - will be sheltered from rain as the move between venues by marquees.
While some meetings have already begun. Construction is continuing at pace for an opening of the event this coming weekend, with the spotlight event, a leaders summit on Monday. 120 national leaders are expected to attend including @JoeBiden.
Covid precautions include all attendees receiving daily negative lateral flow covid tests.
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A @nytimes Columnist is concerned that America’s FP is being mismanaged - a general conclusion with which I concur. But his analysis is excessively simplistic and leaves out both Ethiopia and Climate Change, and therefore also shallow.
@nytimes Biden is about to arrive in Scotland - and in his delegation are (as I understand it) Al Gore, Barack Obama, John Kerry and most probably Hillary Clinton - credited by some with saving Paris in 2009 also as she is already in the UK it seems.
The cause of the rain is an atmospheric river coming from the mid Atlantic, followed by some storms. This 10 day precipitable water/energy animation shows airborne water flows.
Arrived this evening on the last train in to Glasgow from London tonight for #cop26. Will be here for the next three weeks covering the shebang for Scoop.co.nz.
My @AvantiWestCoast train departed Euston Station in London at 5pm….
All up the terrestrial trip from Bretagne took 2 days, beginning in St Malo, crossing the channel with Brittany Ferries featuring a stopover in Portsmouth.