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28 Oct, 4 tweets, 3 min read
For the last three days significant tropical warm rains have been falling here in Glasgow in the lead up to #cop26.

Last night there were 164 floods reported around the city. #atmosphericriver
This evening the @cop26 site becomes officially part of the UN for the duration of #cop26. And from tomorrow morning with around 160 UN staff joining the massive security operation on the site.
The Clyde river, which is starting to get fairly high. The river is known in Latin as the Clutha, which is the largest river in NZ by volume, originating in the alps at Queenstown.
The Earnslaw steamer which sails on lake Wakitipu in NZ, was built in Glasgow, dismantled, shipped to NZ, carried up into the mountains and reassembled there.

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29 Oct
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This is what a “stitch up” looks like.

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This is the opposite of transparency and accountability.
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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.com/2021/10/26/opi…
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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
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.
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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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