If you are new to this very rapidly unfolding, and rather epic story a good place to get up to speed is this #WestAfricaWaterPlume vs #EuropeClimate thread from yesterday.
As the sun went down last night plume driven storms were underway across Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria Germany and Czechia.
Over night a lot of people in central Europe had a noisy night as these storms moved north and consolidated. Here we see the storms crossing the alps, French, Swiss and Austrian from 7-10pm CET.
This shows the consolidated storms progression north through to 1.15am CET this morning.
.. by 5.15am the storm was over Warsaw.
... by the time the sun came up a couple of hours ago it was covering more than half of Poland.
Over 13 hours the storm traveled 1300kms growing, and developing into a powerful low pressure system on way,
As of 9am this morning the cloud circulation diameter is now 1000 kms.
The storm is continuing to move northwards rapidly as it rotates relatively slowly.
Importantly, none of what is happening is in the weather forecasts. Weather models have not been able to keep up with the pace of change, nor (I suspect) the complexity of the interactions.
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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