This graphic really highlights just how much rain has fallen in central Europe in the last few days. Poland for example has doubled and in some spots tripled the record for September rainfall. Millions and millions of litres of water with no where to go.

I'm hearing reports of colleagues having to deliver specific lessons, in a specific format, with specific timings way too often for comfort atm. Is it any surprise that retention is so poor if teachers get so little in the way of autonomy?

Amazing! Giant bluefin tuna seen chasing mackerel off Devon coast telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/1…

With 924 confirmed fatalities, and possibly another 1,300+ still missing (primarily in #Myanmar and #Vietnam), Super Typhoon Yagi is tragically now the deadliest Pacific Typhoon since Haiyan in 2013. (Sat-image credit: CSU/CIRA & NOAA).

710 Palestinian newborn babies have been killed by Israeli forces during the ongoing war in Gaza. No parent should have to go through the agony and heartbreak of losing their child. We simply cannot accept the violence that Palestinian children continue to face as normal.

Tonight there is a partial lunar eclipse, (when the earth creates a shadow onto the moon) The Moon will enter Earth's penumbra at 1.41am and leave at 5.47am. The maximum of this eclipse will occur at 3.44am, bit early for me, BBC South West BBC Cornwall BBC Devon

#ThereForME

As the wheels of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry turn, we see that the message "Covid is airborne" was communicated poorly. I teach. In autumn 2020, I wasn't allowed to wear a high quality respirator mask like this one in my classroom. I want to know who created the school rules for COVID.

Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: The Contrast between Indoors and Outdoors mdpi.com/2687152 #mdpifluids via Fluids_MDPI I published this paper a few months ago. Explains why COVID is easily transmitted indoors and not outdoors #COVIDー19 #Covid_19 #COVIDisAirborne

In 2008, The Dark Knight was top of the box office, and I was a fresh-faced Energy Secretary. At that time we talked about an “energy trilemma” between security, affordability, and sustainability. But now the signs all point in the same direction - the sprint for clean power

Hugh Pym They still are. As are their patients. Why the constant past-tensing? Yes, I know the Covid Inquiry is an historical review, but isn’t it the job of journalists to link this to what’s happening now and start asking questions of politicians Hugh Pym?

The scale of the fires currently burning across Portugal 🇵🇹 is pretty unfathomable.

I think this must be THE most awkward moment of the Covid Inquiry so far. I’ve dubbed it ‘The Long Pause’. I’d love to know what was going on in Dr Ritchie’s head here. I’d like to think she had a moment of reflection of how many lives were lost due to her flawed IPC guidance.

This from Ed Miliband and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero is what we want to hear . Change is no longer inevitable - it is essential . At speed and at scale .

And David Lammy is having a good day too . Let’s make all this happen . . .

‘Climate change is systemic and will get profoundly worse’, says former climate envoy channel4.com/news/climate-c…

Hugh Pym Dr Elisa Perego The pandemic hasn't ended.

Going to have to set-off for work half an hour earlier, I reckon. Hopefully not for the next THREE months 😯

The Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Thunnus thynnus put on a good show on the south Devon coast as the tide came up this afternoon

Listening to #WindInTheWillows on audiobook for the first time in over 40 years! As a child I remember listening to an audio-cassette version narrated by Kenneth Williams. Amazed how much of it I remember! And recognising the enormous impact it had on me. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…