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 :).
These are all Israeli IDF army officers who were trained in the uk
Source: - Declassified -
NEW | Declassified has obtained a list of Israelis who graduated from the Royal College of Defence Studies in London.
Israeli officers fighting in Gaza have received training at Britain’s prestigious Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS), Declassified reveals. /1
At least 32 Israeli military figures, including senior commanders such as Colonel Yaniv Asor, head of the Israeli occupation forces Southern Command, and director-general Amir Baram, are RCDS alumni, 6 more trained at the UK’s Advanced Command & Staff Course-Oxfordshire. /2
The Gaza flotilla is intending as I understand from informed sources in contact with the flotilla intending to pause again and regroup in Malta on its trip to Israel to break the seige in Gaza.
The flotilla is in my view on very grave danger and ought to be being escorted by European naval vessels.
Sources close to the flotilla inform me that there is evidence of internal sabotage of the planned humanitarian mission and may have been infiltrated by bad actors.
Some media participating in the flotilla were expelled in Tunisia and it seems possible that Israel is involved.
At this point following the Qatar obscenity Israel is now breaking the internet and the world.
something decisive is needed to break Israel - a peaceful action that will work and show the world that justice still exists and that peace is possible.
A wise friend proposed a brilliant idea. Every nation on earth which is willing and able should send a frigate to the Mediterranean Sea and take a message to Israel that it cannot ignore.
The foundations of the United Nations itself are now crumbling under the weight of the Gaza Obscenity and nations like Britain that seem to have been turned are facing protest and resistance of epic proportions from their citizens.
I’ll be posting videos and news here on Twitter from the flotilla which is about to depart from Majorca for Tunis on the first leg of the journey to Gaza.
More boats are expected to join the flotilla from Europe and North Africa along the way as it moves west across the Mediterranean. @GretaThunberg is making the voyage again and Israel will not be able to contain or stop this flotilla most likely. And definitely not the publicity.
This first video is of a wind squall hitting one of the boats as it departs Barcelona.
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.