Thread by @althecat

I am beginning to think that this sudden climate change business is getting a bit out of hand. Especially as nobody seems to be noticing except those in Yemen and Somalia watching their cars being washed away down the roads and rivers.

https://twitter.com/althecat/status/1390014981954052098?s=20

I have been tweeting a lot about the weather in the Horn of Africa lately.

Including asking for images of flooding from eyewitnesses.

I received a response on April 24th the day after the Norwegian Refugee Service published there article about droughts.

https://twitter.com/walia_x/status/1386021320442384394?s=20

Not that far away from @walia_x - albeit a world away in many respects - across the Arabian Gulf from in #Oman, last night this happened.

https://twitter.com/Arab_Storms/status/1389701249562521605?s=20

The video from Oman is remarkably similar to this one from Somalia - where the Shebelle River has broken its banks due to very heavy rains falling in the Ethiopian Highlands.

https://twitter.com/walia_x/status/1390003907405955072?s=20

Meanwhile across the Middle East there have been extraordinary #ArabianStorm events every day for the past three weeks. Yemeni authorities reported on May 1st that floods there have killed 13 people.
apnews.com/article/yemen-…

And Yemen also has footage of cars floating in in the streets....

https://twitter.com/ferozwala/status/1388985774968877064?s=20

As does Saudi Arabia, in Mecca / Makkah no less.

https://twitter.com/Arab_Storms/status/1387200414521733125?s=20

[For TV news producers @CNN @MSNBC @BBCNEWS @France24 seeking to cover this story @Arab_Storms has an amazing sequence of videos of all this.]

So it is clear this is not an isolated incident something widespread and huge is going on with the climate. I have been tweeting about the impact of this in Europe over the past week using the hashtag #WestAfricaWaterPlume.

The hashtag refers to one of the proximate causes for all this, a much stronger than usual #WestAfricanMonsoon, which has been so far sent two plumes of water into Europe (April 17 & April 29) disrupting the weather in peculiar ways and making it colder.

https://twitter.com/althecat/status/1389217107288772619?s=20

I had thought that it might be a freak set of one off events. But it appears not. Which brings me to the image in the OP. This came from a weather simulation on May 3rd. I kept it as to me it looks like Poseidon/Tangaroa/Neptune reclining on America.

I also kept it because it is the beginning of a remarkable simulation of precipitable water movements over the Atlantic Ocean. This one is from the European @ECMWF model. Its 10 days long and at the beginning you see Poseidon poking his left hand into Europe. That happened today.

... and this was the result....

[Source URL via @zoom_earth >> zoom.earth/#view=47.3,-3.…]

... and while the outcome is not cars floating down streets, it is noticeable, i.e. yet more endless icy cold Northerly winds in the UK, and flooding in Russia.

Here's a Canadian version of the same forecast data, from the CMC global weather model.

And for good measure, one from the US's @NOAA GFD model, which delivers an even more dramatic presentation of the data - also over a longer period - 16 days - during which there are three cycles of insertion of firehose into Europe's left facing window.

Anyway I really think we all ought to start paying attention to this. Else, before we know it, we may start seeing cars being washed away down our streets.

And in the meantime efforts need to be made to assist those on the front line of all this. I.E @walia_x in Somalia.

/ENDS

Looks like I am about to be hit by a storm.