In the big picture today we can see storms over Europe top left and monsoon storms over South East Asia bottom left, as well as yet another day of #ArabianStorms beginning on the Red Sea.
The monsoon storms over SEA provide the moisture which powers the rains over Ethiopia.
In this satellite image from this morning we can see visible traces of the water arriving across the Indian Ocean.
As for Ethiopia itself here is today's @Nasa Modis imagery which provides a split view, which is perhaps appropriate as the country votes, with the futures of 114 million people riding on the result helping to bring the nation together.
Today's North Africa 10-Day rainfall forecasts for June 21st.
48-Hour North Africa/Sahara rainfall forecasts from the same four models.
And it seems we now have access (thanks @weathermodels_ to the 16-day GFS forecast as well as the 12-day KMA forecast, providing a longer view forward.
The models are now mostly in agreement about significant levels of rainfall in Northern Mali in coming fortnight.
These three images also @NASA Modis show cross sections, east to west over the Indian Ocean where the trade-winds are carrying moisture to fuel not just the HoA monsoon, which runs to September, but the entire West Africa Monsoon.
The big picture for today shows a broad swathe of the North Western Hemisphere. Here in Europe we have rainclouds over most of Western Europe now. And more wet weather heading in from the West.
In the East the monsoon is still strengthening and we have #ArabianStorms yet again.
This morning we had a lovely clear view of the #HornOfAfrica from space courtesy of @NASA. The big cloud mass bottom right is mostly over Kenya.
Tomorrow Ethiopia will go to the polls. #GERD, the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a project announced back in 2011 is a key election issue. The dam filling is about to begin.
This image shows Lake Tana, where the #Abbay river begins.
Today's rainfall forecasts follow.
Zooming out to show North Ethiopia this morning we can now see Tigray, where a horrific war began in November 2020, another key issue in this election.
Zooming out still further we can now see all of the ancient nation of Ethiopia. At the top right (the triangle bordered by cloud, we can see the northern end of the great rift where the Indian and African tectonic plates are slowly pulling away from each other.
Not yet a week and @IsraeliPM@naftalibennett’s premiership is not going well. On Wed, Thurs & Friday he bombed Gaza. Later on Friday he offered Palestinians 1 million vaccines only to have them refused because they are near their expiry date.
This statement released Friday in Hebrew in his Telegram Channel explained his decision to provide vaccines to Palestinians, something that international observers have been calling on Israel to do for months.
It’s never a good idea in politics to read the twitter replies, and doubly so in Israeli politics it seems.
See four satellite images taken today of major water transport events from @NASA Modis below. 1. Monsoon winds leaving India 2. Monsoon winds arriving Africa 3. Closeup of the #HornOfAfrica 4. The latest WMA plume.
Today's #Africa and #Middle East rainfall forecasts follow.
Two views of today's heavy rainfall in the Nile Basin and along the Red Sea Coast.
A big picture view from the Atlantic to the Bay of Bengal. It is extraordinary how long the Leviathan storm has been stationary in the middle of the picture near the Black Sea. It started in late May!
There are some seriously silly statements in this @WashingtonPost, but its still an interesting round-up of the events of the past five days. The Balloons vs Bombs story.