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 :).
Netanyahu has proposed a pathway to end the war in Gaza under pressure primarily from the U.S. UK, France & Germany. Spain and Ireland and several other European nations & the European Commission.
The @israelipm sounds defeated. Hopefully this is the beginning of the end. The deal being offered to Gaza is far from perfect but it sounds workable in Netanyahus outline.
@IsraeliPM Whether it will be approved by Hamas however is unclear and rather complicated - as it’s unclear who inside Gaza would be in a position to respond to the offer. Many of Hamas’s fighters may prefer to die as martyrs also than to agree to any deal.
This is pathetic from @realDonaldTrump he’s lashing out like an angry teenager. Jerome Powell says he’s included a the costs of a building that was completed years ago in his very public attack on the FED Chair.
Trump has completely lost the plot. The single most damaging thing that he could do to undermine confidence in the U.S. dollar (which he publicly claims to want to deflate and there by make all Americans poorer - is to attack the Federal Reserve and the SEC.
@realDonaldTrump Trump is setting fire to the dollar to distract from his Epstein mess what a complete baby.
I attended the Bonn climate talks. They were very disappointing to everyone. The elephant in the room was (of course) the U.S. decision to withdraw from the talks altogether.
Unfortunately.. perhaps intentionally in advance of the continuation of climate talks regardless of #US_Disintigration the talks were also very sparsely attended particularly by activists and NGOs. The reason for this was @elonmusk destroying @-USAID.
@elonmusk As you can see the USAID Twitter account is now dead - deleted which is an appalling act of vandalism executed by Elon and his tech-bro team of teenagers.
This article is deeply depressing. For my part at Scoop.co.nz it is clear to me that:
1. The Govt has a deliberate strategy - probably not official but nevertheless operative to destroy NZ media. 2. This is not going to change any time soon. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/02-07…
& Sadly from what I discerned last year the @nzlabour opposition is both apathetic and indifferent to the plight of media. Also the @NZGreens. And have always been so for as long as I can remember.
This is extremely disappointing
@nzlabour @NZGreens I will be returning to NZ in August to ensure continues to function in these very difficult times for NZ media. We have faced numerous big challenges recently and thank our supporters and readers for their support.Scoop.co.nz
Ok so this is a bit weird, but in a kinda chill way so do bare with me and and I will be happy to answer questions afterwards. It’s about a castle on a virtual island in a massive online role playing game called Evony and it involves a possible but speculative discussion about @elonmusk and @X.
All will be revealed but first a picture or four actually from the game. More will come.
Ok. So here’s what I think is going on in a nutshell. I think elonmusk has invested in a MMORPG: a “Massive Multimedia Online Role Playing Game” which is a bit of a mouthful, called EVONY.
I liked its Twitter ads and finally clicked. It’s huge. Someone else can do the business story here which I am sure is interesting too.
But the this bit is weird.
The mysterious knight on the red horse arrived this morning beside my castle and he had some treasure.
I hadn’t a clue who it was so I grabbed the treasure and tried to kill the horse and rider as that’s what you do. But we got smashed badly.