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Climate, Conflict, Politics, Africa. Editor https://t.co/b6HbxvmnsV (NZ) Reporting from France. https://t.co/LNVK0y9IS7 #nzpol #DesertRain

Apr 26, 2021, 13 tweets

26th April #NileBasin #MiddleEast accumulated rainfall forecast update. Today has seen a significant increase in thunderstorm activity from Uganda all the way north to Iran.

#ArabianStorms #GERD #Ethiopia #Egypt #Sudan #HornOfAfrica #KSA #Yemen

[Image: @NASA Worldview.]

26th April 10 Day GFS model accumulated rain forecast across the ME and Africa. /2

26th April animation thread of clouds over the rainy part of the Nile Basin. The Clouds over Sudan, South Sudan and Western Ethiopia all contribute to the flow in the Nile River. /3

The latest 10-Day accumulated rain forecasts from the ECMWF, GFS and KMA forecast models are below. They are in agreement. Lots of rain across the entire #HornOfAfrica

26 April #ArabianStorms #DesertRain satellite animation thread.

The Kingdom of #SaudiArabia has now had significant storm activity every day for the last seven days. Today storm activity is across most of the #MiddleEast /5

Two eyewitness #ArabianStorms videos and image tweets from @Arab_Storms follow /6

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26 April - 10 day accumulated rain forecasts for the #MiddleEast from GFS, CMC, KMA and GEFS weather models.

@Arab_Storms
#ArabianStorms

#KSA #Yemen #Oman #Levant #Jordan #Sudan #UAE #Iraq #Iran #Syria #Kuwait #GERD #Africa #NileBasin #HornOfAfrica #DesertRain /8

الله أعلم

Another eyewitness #ArabianStorms video tweet of today's storms from @Arab_Storms [Hint: Use translate link to see location] /9

3 day accumulated rain forecasts ( to Thursday at Midnight) for the #MiddleEast from the GFS, CMC, KMA and GEFS weather models. /10

@Arab_Storms

#KSA #Yemen #Jordan #Sudan #Iran #Syria #GERD #Sudan #DesertRain #Makkah

الله أعلم

And one final video from @Arab_Storms of flooding today in #KSA. /11

And finally, ultra long-range accumulated rain forecasts for the #MiddleEast from the GFS, GEFS (16 day) and KMA (12 day) weather models.

#ArabianStorms #Ramadan
الله أعلم

& signing off with a sunset animation from @zoom_earth [Link to view here >> zoom.earth/#view=13,44.6,…] .... /13/Ends

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