With Cyclone #Yaas soaking up all the moisture east of the #MiddleEast and #HornOfAfrica it was a relatively calm day. Albeit not without another intense set of storms along the Red Sea Coast in the Jinzan mountains.
Today's rainfall forecasts follow.
The days began relatively quiet on the #WestAfricanMonsoon front thanks to Cyclone #Yaas. This image shows a strip from the Libyan Coast across the Sahara down to the Congo.
And it remained fairly quiet over the great forests of equatorial Africa today. But further West over the Ivory Coast and the West Sahara the #WestAfricaWaterPlume continued to pump water vapour across the Sahara into Europe.
In the morning as you see in the image above it appeared fairly subdued by by nightfall the scale of the water vapour transport was far more apparent.
Here are three views of what the weather models thought was going around the time of the @Zoom_Earth animation above.
And in this animation you can see the impact of this #WestAfricaWaterPlume further north this evening.
This is a picture of the intense rain/storm activity underway over North Eastern Europe.
The attached tweet thread shows the 1st wave of this last night, over northern Italy and Western Europe. TLDR version >> its making it cold wet and windy all over.
Here are today's 10 day rain forecasts for North Africa. Note the extent of forecast rain in the CMC and KMA models for the Western Sahara. This is set to be a long event from the look of things.
25th May 10-day rain forecasts for the #HornOfAfrica remain subdued, seemingly because of the influence of Cyclone #Yaas. That said there is a difference of opinion on magnitude.
3-day forecasts for the same area show rain expected till midnight Friday by the ECMWF, GFS and KMA models. Given the rains so far during the "little rainy" season in the Horn I expect this is fairly welcome.
The first of these two images of #Yemen, #Eritrea, #Ethiopia and #Somaliland is from 11th March, the second from today. Fresh green growth can be clearly seen. Note: The resolution of the image is 1 pixel per km2.
May 25th, 10 day accumulated rain forecasts for the #MiddleEast from the GFS, ECMWF, CMC & KMA weather models.
And 3-Day forecasts to midnight Friday. Looking at these and comparing them with what is happening one gets the impression the weather modelers are occupied by bigger issues that #ArabianStorms.
Today's #ArabianStorms were non trivial, and if you look closely reveal significant complexity to the wind directions over the area. The resumption of storm activity along the Western side of the Red Sea is also a new feature.
The #MiddleEast long-range 16 day and 12 day forecasts from the GFS and KMA models. Again we have the last two runs from each model here.
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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