Strong, moist southeasterly flow giving an unusual and spectacular example of orographic enhancement, leeward rain shadow, and a standing wave pattern. We’ve been stuck in this pattern for an unusually long time now — the January-total rainfall map will be an unusual one!

This is significant. Mairi Spowage of @fraserofallander.org has spoken to BBC More Or Less about Scot Gov’s “more than half of taxpayers in Scotland pay less income tax than if they lived elsewhere in UK” claim. Mairi is quite clear: the claim has been false for the last two financial years.

Geography of deprivation in England, 2025 www.gov.uk/government/s...

Evolution of #StormAmy from 18 UTC 1 October through 12 UTC 4 October per Met Office analyses. The initial disturbance was perfectly phased with a wave in the jet, undergoing explosive cyclogenesis & evolving into a powerful Shapiro–Keyser cyclone, setting low pressure records for the time of year.

Weather NEEDS to be included in the revised A level Geography curriculum (whenever that happens). There's lots of chat about climate change as a topic, but weather is as important for people's day today lives.

#StormAmy will bring very windy and wet weather across northern parts in particular through Friday into Saturday. Find out more in this weekend’s weather forecast with Alex Burkill www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rdz...

What's new in the science of learning? Your monthly round-up with new studies on retrieval practice, explicit instruction, interleaving, sleep, erroneous examples, AI, worked examples, print vs digital, adaptive learning. 👉 carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-resear...

The river Findhorn in spate, 8th October 2023, taken from Randolph's Leap The Findhorn after months of drought, same spot, Thursday 25th September 2025. #geographyteacher

Brilliant news! BBC News - Outdoor learning law for Scottish children to reach next stage www.bbc.com/news/article...

Here we see the true spatial scale of the developing La Niña event in the Pacific Ocean. Contrasting with the anomalous warmth further north & south, it makes for a striking visual. pulse.climate.copernicus.eu

Today marks 60th anniversary of the Mattmark catastrophe, one of the deadliest glacier-related disaster in the Alps and largest catastrophe in Swiss modern history! 🧊🌊 30th Aug 1965: 2 Mm3 of Allalin Gl. broke off on Mattmark dam construction site, killing 88, many of whom were Italian immigrants 😭

🍂 Have you noticed leaves already starting to fall or berries ripening early? As we come to the end of one of the UK's warmest summers on record, the country is experiencing what experts call a ‘false autumn’. Find out about this phenomenon and why it's been happening 👇

youtu.be/4SLJ2dltqpQ?... Brilliant explainer from @metoffice.gov.uk on how hurricanes can fire up the jet stream. #geographyteacher

#Hurricane #Erin has just become a Category 5 hurricane (140 kt / 917 mb). Earliest known occurrence of Cat 5 in open Atlantic (outside Caribbean & Gulf). Rapid Intensification (+75 kt in 24h!) To illustrate how remarkable this period of #RI has been check out this WV 18 hour animation below ⤵️

Geography matters: Alaska was Russian territory until it was sold to the USA in 1867. Trump to meet Putin in Alaska as he signals Ukraine may need to cede land - on.ft.com/40Tp29u via @FT

This is why weather should be back on the A level geography syllabus, people are interested in it. BBC News - Why weather forecasters often get it wrong - or appear to - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Based on the above & this here from roostweather.com, summer reason record high wind gusts are being set across much of the northern half of Scotland today, but not in northern Ireland or Northern Ireland, where it's been a close shave from #StormFloris.

Chinese kindergartens in crisis as enrolments plunge 25% in 4 years - on.ft.com/3IJui9m via @FT Turning kindergartens into nursing homes. The reality of a rapidly ageing demographic hits China.

The Ukraine war will shape the world - on.ft.com/452f4Un via @FT

*NEW POST* The Enduring Persistence of Neuromyths in Education A new study surveying over 3,000 Spanish teachers provides one of the most detailed snapshots to date. Fantastic work from @juanfernandez.bsky.social @ferreromar.bsky.social and colleagues open.substack.com/pub/carlhend...

pca.st/episode/95ea... A v.interesting episode of the @theifs.bsky.social zooms in on the problems facing the UK's economy. Lots about growth, demographics, tax and spend covered so suitable for A level #geographyteacher I will miss hearing @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social wise words on the economy.

A quiet education revolution in England’s secondary cities www.economist.com/britain/2025... From The Economist

*** NEW POST *** It is hard to judge the impact of CPD, but it is important to set out a success criteria with clear milestones along the way. www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

The illegal killing of Hen Harriers has hit a devastating new high. ⚠️ A new RSPB report reveals 102 incidents in just five years - with the majority on, or near, grouse moors. A thread…

Why intellectual preparation is more important than lesson planning open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

Technology is banned in chess matches but players can still use it when they train. We should copy this in education. Banning tech in exams will promote better use of it in the classroom. Latest on our Substack - what education can learn from chess. substack.nomoremarking.com/p/three-thin...

I’m delighted so many people have found my latest @TES article so useful👇 Thanks for all the great comments about it 😊 www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

NEW POST on AI, learning and why knowing stuff still matters. carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-most-i...

Spectacular encounter of the Arve and Rhône rivers at Geneva today! 🌊 The former is heavily laden with sediment from melting snow and heavy thunderstorms over the last few hours 🎥 Loic Francon

The thing about learning is that it’s incredibly elusive and deceptive. Even when it feels like it’s happening, it often isn’t. And that’s what the science of learning offers us: some signal among the noise.

Why Birch Glacier collapsed, with comments from me, and from @mathieu-ice.bsky.social & Sridhar Anandakrishnan abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

The extent of the deposit from the Birch Glacier collapse over Blatten as seen by newly available high-resolution satellite imagery collected by Maxar! 🛰️ Processed by @wxnb.bsky.social

eos.org/thelandslide... #geographyteacher Excellent analysis and video links on the collapse of the Birch glacier from @davepetley.bsky.social

☀️ The UK has already recorded its sunniest spring on record, according to provisional Met Office figures ☀️ Read all the details here 👇

BBC News - Dry heat to torrential rain - enter the age of 'weather whiplash' www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sea surface temperature anomalies Markedly warmer than normal around UK and European waters

Gone is the high pressure and settled weather now In its place the jetstream has moved south delivering unsettled weather to much of Europe in the days ahead..the UK sitting in cooler air north of the elongated meridional jet, dominated by a slow 🐌 moving low pressure pattern

George Parker's interview in the FT with Theresa May is worth a read #geographyteacher. They are both Geography graduates.

NEW: A catastrophic magnitude 7.7 earthquake shook Southeast Asia today, devastating entire neighbourhoods in cities throughout Myanmar—and the damage even extended as far as Thailand. What caused it? Why was it so powerful? Me for @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

A conversation is needed in Scotland as to whether £900 million (at least) to maintain free university tuition is the best use of tax payers cash in this time of squeezed public spending. BBC News - 'We will stand by free tuition fees' - Gilruth www.bbc.com/news/article...

Column on the crisis in our universities. In Scotland, the rocks are going to have to melt with the sun eventually. (Free to read as the paywall is down this weekend). www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

All websites that depend on NOAA data should display something like this. earth.nullschool.net

The US is now the enemy of the west - on.ft.com/436Sdrr via @FT

Just to underline - the US voted with Russia and North Korea on a UN resolution on Ukraine. China abstained

A lot of subjects are up on last year, which is positive, including a few STEM subjects. English is down 22%, almost certainly because of the bursary cuts from £15k to £10 last year, and £5k this Primary down again, continuing the trend in recent years of declining numbers entering postgraduate ITT

🧵 This UN resolution vote on Ukraine is worth paying attention to. A brief thread on the Trump administration's bullying under way in the background. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

The Moray coast does it again temperature wise. Foëhn effect in action?

The @metoffice.bsky.social deep dives and live weather studio clips would make brilliant A level teaching resources. @stevebracegeog.bsky.social what do we need to do to ensure weather is put back onto the A level curriculum in the current review?! youtube.com/live/8baRhKc...

New Manics album, Critical Thinking, out today. It's very good. store.manicstreetpreachers.com/products/cri...