The North Atlantic is mounting a come back to this Spring is over in Europe malarkey. /1
It certainly looks and feels like it’s going to rain here. And Andre our 93 year old neighbor reckons a storm is coming.
Ouch.... hopefully not this storm.
I think the weather models may be getting a bit discombobulated what with all this new variability going on.
@ECMWF's rain model is still on the blink today. But here's the continuation of the storms coming in from the East and the West of Europe.
The cascading impact of chaos is something.
But simulating it accurately is something else altogether.
The @ECMWF model is betting on Atlantic water (King Kong) clobbering Arctic air (Godzilla) in the one on one ahead (GFS is less convinced on this point).
Meanwhile here's what the Euro contender has to say about this battle royale today.
In the animation above a chunk of Arctic Godzilla sneaks in behind King Kong and heads down into the Middle East at the end.
With respect to yesterday's prognostications on the postponement of spring: @ECMWF now figures that King Kong will come through wrt to temperature.
In conclusion, I do not know how seriously we can take any of these revised simulations. Especially the more catastrophic guesses.
It will be interesting to see what the BBC's weather for the week ahead folk have to say about all of this.
In the meantime we should probably focus on enjoying whatever we get for these final few days of Spring.
One final observation: I suspect this is probably right. There's going to be a lot of snow in the north. and a fair bit in the alps. Its just a shame we can't go skiing (unless you happen to be Swiss, Austrian or Italian and live up there :).
If @realDonaldTrump chooses to join Netanyahu’s genocidal campaign if he is not obeyed …. he WILL find himself indicted in the international criminal court in The Hague.
And he will then have to make a decision on whether he is willing to remain in the U.S.
@realDonaldTrump Should he proceed as he has intimated that he should now be pursued by protestors everywhere he goes.
There is a lot of concern about evacuations of civilians from Gaza in the flotilla as anyone leaving may not be able to return any time soon. /2
But the moral hazard here is palpable. There are thousands of injured and starving mostly women and children. And we saw the young babies dying in the hospitals in the early stages of this war. /3
More and more naval vessels from Europe and the Middle East are being deployed to protect the Global Samir Flotilla as it moves slowly but surely towards Gaza where it intends to deliver aid and global attention. /1
Attacks from drones on the flotilla have resumed and Israel is presumably responsible for this. It is because of this that naval vessels from Europe are now joining the flotilla to protect their citizens rights of travel in international waters. /2
The escalation appears fairly slow at present and the flotilla is still within Greek waters at present /3
The #Samud #GazaFlotilla is currently sailing across the Ionian Sea towards the island archipelago south east of Athens in the Western Mediterranean. Conditions appear good for this leg that departed from Sicily after leaving Tunisia. The Flotilla set off from Barcelona.
2/ this current leg is 860 kms roughly and lead boats in the 51 vessel flotilla are currently approaching south western Greece. You can follow the flotillas progress here >> flotilla-orpin.vercel.app
3/ After two drone attacks on flotilla boats in Tunisia the flotilla sailed first to Sicily where it was joined by several more boats. And this map shows the path of the flotilla so far. The numbers in the dots indicate more vessels joining #GazaFlotilla