Weather warnings from the @UKMet office and EU @MeteoalarmEu warning ⚠️ systems for tomorrow and Friday #cop26Deluge #cop26
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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28 Oct
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.com/2021/10/26/opi…
@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.
According to reports they plan to arrive by motorcade with the M8 Motorway from Edinburgh to Glasgow being temporarily closed to enable it.

If they all do turn up every democratic Presidential Nominee since 2000 will be there. An unprecedented display of commitment.
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26 Oct
According to Roland Marchal in this IV on @France24, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan travelled to Cairo 10 days ago.

We now have a fairly clear picture of the events leading up to this coup in Sudan
@FRANCE24 On 21st September there was an attempted coup. Involving tank commanders. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September…

Then on 17th October. Six days after fighting flared up in Ethiopia, General al-Burhan visited Cairo.
@FRANCE24 During this timeframe there was also talk of tanks being seen near the border with Ethiopia in Sudan.

At the end of September US Envoy Feltman visited Sudan. >> state.gov/visit-of-speci…
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26 Oct
#COP26 has incoming rain.... lots of it.

Yellow heavy rain warnings through Thursday.
And it's not finishing on Thursday, just perhaps getting a little lighter. Here's a 10 day forecast for the United Kingdom.

#Cop26Deluge
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.

#Cop26Deluge
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25 Oct
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.
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25 Oct
This is very very concerning. The United States @StateDept needs to use its influence with both the Sudanese and Egyptian military on this.

There is almost certainly a a link between this, the GERD, and the war in Northern Ethiopia.
Report on Ethiopia reaction.
Ethiopia Statement.
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24 Oct
Dark clouds.

This is what England looks like now after Brexit. Image
This bit looks purdie. ImageImageImageImage
Spiky, Pumpy, Chuck & Old Vic. ImageImageImageImage
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