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Jul 18, 2021, 5 tweets

This killer #EuropeBigWet storm is still packing a punch. Here you see it yesterday over Italy and the Balkans.

And here it is today. It still has a clearly defined circulation over the Adriatic Sea.

This shows the jet stream forecast for today which pretty perfectly matches what we are seeing here from the satellite imagery.

But while the circulation is gone the jet remains. This jet looks like it is going to move into the business of delivering moisture to the Middle East.

So what happens next in #EuropeBigWet?

Here's a 5 day forecast of precipitable water.

Cold dry arctic air is moving south, pushing the moisture over central Europe south into the Sahara and making space for the next Atlantic water burst.

And five days after that Western Europe will be chock full of atmospheric moisture once again.

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