This is what an approaching #extremeweather event looks like.
This cloud pattern is exquisite.
Hundreds of small thunderstorms, all in a line over the great forest of Africa, all producing a stream of atmospheric water of heading towards a great river over the Sahel.
Those are lakes Albert and Victoria bottom right. The large cloudless area is also unusual. Probably a localised fairly large high pressure system of some kind.
One more tweet here.....
This single component of a complex water transport weather phenomena is the size of the continent of Australia. Three quarters of the size of the USA.
P.S. And another... high res satellite image of this.
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