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Alastair Thompson Profile picture
@althecat
Jun 7, 2021 • 17 tweets • 12 min read • Read on X
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Today's #Sahara & #HornOfAfrica rainfall forecasts follow.

It is now two weeks till the first open democratic #Ethiopian election.
To open here's a high resolution satellite image of the Nile Basin from Cairo to Lake Victoria including Eastern Ethiopia where the #GERD dam is located, and where the Blue Nile - source of much of the Nile's flow - originates in Lake Tana (the heart shaped lake).
We will zoom in on the #HornOfAfrica starting with the wider picture. On the left side of this image you can see a #WesternSahara water transport event which is significantly impacting weather conditions in Europe. (See more in the attached thread )
This zoomed section shows the water transit event and its impact in terms of rainfall over Italy the Adriatic coast, Greece and the Aegean Sea.
Our first rainfall forecasts. 10 day forecasts from the CMC, KMA, GFS and ECMWF models. There is an increasingly large level of disagreement between the two most extreme models CMC and ECMWF.

Note the CMC forecast of lots of #DesertRain north of the 15o Nth. latitude line.
We move east to the #HornOfAfrica. There are now strong westerlies blowing in from the North West over Oman these are setting of convection over the mountains from Yemen up the Red Sea Coast, in Taif #KSA, and Oman.
10-Day rainfall forecasts for June 7th of the #HornOfAfrica including, #Somalia, #Somaliland, #Djibouti, #Ethiopia and parts of #Sudan and #SouthSudan.

Note the fourth forecast is a 12 day KMA forecast. There is again a wide range of opinion between the three models.
This animation is a close up from earlier in the day today. The impact of the north easterly winds is significant.
Here are 3-day #HornOfAfrica rainfall forecasts from the same three models.
I have paused rainfall forecasts for now for the Arabian Peninsula for the past few days in deference to this announcement from the Saudi Arabian Govt.

However I also note that this report indicates that this ban comes into effect in six months time.

arabnews.com/node/1866626/s…
It is worth noting that none of the models whose forecasts I have been regularly posting since April have been doing a particularly good job at actually predicting rainfall in the peninsula of late anyway.

Here is an animation of today's cloud activity on the Peninsula.
To conclude today a wrap up of amazing videos of storm activity from around the world from @Arab_Storms.

Starting with a video taken today in Oman.
.. and three still images also from Oman.
Spain has been experiencing some pretty extraordinary storms of late. Here you see a line of clouds coming in over Torredonjimeno Andalusia.
Here you can see a few of those Spanish storms as pictured from Space. These were further North West on June 5th.
The following day storms caused this flooding in Murcia Spain. Credit @MeteoAltiplano
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May 19
X also throttles a lot of accounts so @elonmusk if you actually believed in free speech rather than just consider it a nice slogan you’d not allow Netanyahu and palantir to use it as a national security weapon
Also as long as you continue in your current path of obsequious Zionism you will shed readers like a waterfall
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On the Interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla
The Wiley Fox didn't wait for the twelve-mile limit.
He struck two hundred and fifty nautical miles out in the deep blue. Right inside the Cyprus Search and Rescue zone under the nose of Akrotiri. Twenty-seven hulls boarded in broad daylight by tactical teams. The satellite streams jammed and cut to black while the global public watched the pixels freeze.
The Western military apparatus did what it always does when the cardboard rules are tested. They sat behind their high-grade radar screens and logged the telemetry. They did nothing.
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Bianca and the delegation forced the confrontation in international waters before the blackout hit.

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This forensic @cnn video presented by @kaitlancollins - detailing the events leading up to the 10 Shot attack on Minnesota Medic Alex Pretti is devastating and ought to be enough to seal the deal and END ICE now.

Collins copresses Trump over concerns from Epstein survivors youtube.com/shorts/IHXnZDw… via @YouTube

Her reporting on the Minnesota killing of Doctor
For the wider picture this from Nicole Wallace is also superb.

Finally CNNs Kaitlan Collins coverage of Epstein is also superb - especially her interview with one of the survivors advocates.

It appears that the insane and deeply evil manipulations emanating from the white house & Justice Department related to the now (but not really) released Epstein files are a complete cover up. Not only are survivors names unredacted effectively putting a target on their backs (my words not from the report….

… but the witness testimonies from survivors are in some cases maybe most of them - completely redacted.
Whilst driving today I listened to a lot of extraordinarily good reporting about mostly #ICE+MURDER & Intimidation the open congressional hearing is particularly good including astonishing accounts from other victims of ICE that are simply terrifying.
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The U.S. constitution appears to be holding up at this point. But the drip drip of the Epstein files means President Donald Trump is looking increasingly impeachable and this will almost certainly trigger the begining of a premature end of @realDonaldTrump’s presidency. /1
Subpoenas of internal justice department officials will likely be the next step. And as there is bipartisan agreement on this there is no “get out of jail free” card on the table for those implicated in this horror show. /2
As the net closes in on the growing number of investigation suspects in this widening gyre it is becoming increasingly likely that the impact of this political events in the U.S.Capitol on politics across the entire U.S. will be seismic in scale.
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Oct 29, 2025
This @nytimes New York Times report is startling in its implications. Trump appears to have won the dominance contest OVER @IsraeliPM Netanyahu, who has been it seems diminished within Israel politically as a consequence of @realDonaldTrump’s interventions.

I, for one hope very much that he succeeds in his objectives.
Very importantly Trump is holding the line on extremist Israeli efforts to annex the West Bank. Should Trump hold course the possibility of a real long term 2 state solution - with Israeli and Palestinian cooperation may yet come into view.
nytimes.com/2025/10/27/wor…
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Oct 28, 2025
This from Max Blumenthal

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Netanyahu’s Desperate PANIC & Massive Cover-Up Exposed via @YouTube
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He tweeted “only AFD can save germany” both before and after the Magdeburg attack
And the New Orleans attack modus operandi was almost identical to the attack in New Orleans
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