Sobering aerial imagery of various places across Western North Carolina - Before & After Helene. An absolute tragedy for this region. Imagery courtesy of Nearmap

SW Geography Conference 2025 . . . next year's conference will take place at UWE (Bristol) on Monday 16 June 2025. Save the date and submit your cover slip! This will be a FREE event for teachers. For updates on the programme, check out geographysouthwest.co.uk/conference/geo…. Please re-post.

#Milton is the fastest Atlantic hurricane to intensify from a Tropical Depression to a Category 5 Hurricane, taking just over 48 hours. This animation shows Milton as it intensified, with the heaviest rains (red) concentrated near the center. go.nasa.gov/3zUHi7Z

Very useful explainer from Sky News on the various elements of demography in the UK.

Okay, this is a wild stat. Tampa received 11.23" of rainfall on Wednesday from #Milton. Their previous wettest October 1-31st was 10.33" in 1922. THEY BROKE THE MONTHLY RECORD IN A SINGLE DAY.

My Y11 class today were pestering me all lesson for updates on Hurricane Milton, so of course the Windy app was used 🌀

It is there. Just. One day I will finally see it!

Took the SWTT geography trainees outside today to practice some onsite fieldwork. We also spent a lot of time talking about all things geography. Love my Fridays ❤️

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We collaborated with Esri UK to create a set of free teaching resources, combining our #climate expertise and #UKCP data with their interactive maps & dashboards, for young people to learn more about how climate change will impact their local area

October 2023 - September 2024 was the wettest hydrological year on record for the UK. 2023/24 average river flows were also the highest on record. Via nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/sites/default/…

The SWTT geography trainees spent time today improving their substantive knowledge of rivers/coasts before exploring powerful knowledge. This was then linked to decolonising the curriculum (Decolonising Geography) and disasters not being natural (Ilan Kelman). Busy morning!

We're counting down the days to #GreenCareersWeek! Join us for Green Careers Week from 4-9 November, you can find resources with the link below: greencareersweek.com/resources-2024/

Chances of keeping warming to 1.5°C target are gone. We’re on track for 3°C by end of century. Current global commitments would mean 2.8°C For avoidance of doubt that would result in economic, environmental and societal collapse. unep.org/resources/emis…

Free teachmeet tomorrow... teaching examples at gcse! Great speaker line up BC Fiona Sheriff 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧🌍 Alice 🌍✈️ Catherine Owen Iram Sammar and Hope N. Still time to sign up to listen - starts at 4pm tomorrow but also will be on YouTube after!!

Loved driving through the sunshine and fog this morning to visit a geography teacher at Bideford College for SWTT. Very much looking forward to a long sit down and 🍷 this evening mind!

185 schools out of 411 have sent their flags in so far! Please remember I do all of these without an automated system. Flags need to be with me by the 20th November so that I can get them sent down to Antarctica 🇦🇶 #AntarcticFlags

I do like me a 🎄Christmas themed grid reference puzzle 👇🏼 tes.com/teaching-resou…

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geography.org.uk/election-ga-pr… Votes are open for the Geographical Association president for 2027-2028. Please do vote, there are 3 fantastic candidates! Mrs Hawke 🌍 FRGS CGeog Sophie Wilson and Helen Martin - all three truly deserving of the position for all they have already done!