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18 Jul, 8 tweets, 3 min read
The German and European low country flooding of last week is astonishing and terrifying. This thread compiles youtube videos of the coverage. The death toll is still expected to rise significantly.
The previous video was @Channel4News 16th July report. Here is their 17th July report.
Here is the BBC report from Friday 16th.
And the US NBC nightly news report from the 17th.
Here is the BBC news report from July 15th.
And an @AJEnglish news report posted to youtube today.
And another @AJEnglish report posted to youtube today.
And @AJEnglish's Inside Story panel discussion on the implications from last night.

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Today's #FabianPH #INFA, #Olympics, #Olympics2021 disruption update thread.

See yesterday's thread below.

TL/DR: There is a significant typhoon/extreme rainfall threat to Japan in the opening days of the Olympics.
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18 Jul
This attached thread from this morn looks at Typhoon #INFA ("In-fa" TS09W) which is poised to be extraordinarily disruptive to the 2021 Olympics in Japan.

It has since come clearer what we can expect from a dangerous and unusual weather system developing over the West Pacific. Image
This is the story of three storms rather than one, but IN-FA will play the starring role.

1. TD10W currently menacing Hong Kong
2. "IN-FA" which is technically still TS09W (fmrl. #invest98w)

& a 3rd storm which models forecast TD10W & IN-FA will bring about in 5 days time. Image
Here's the latest satellite imagery of TD10W (left) and #INFA (right) ImageImage
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18 Jul
This killer #EuropeBigWet storm is still packing a punch. Here you see it yesterday over Italy and the Balkans.
And here it is today. It still has a clearly defined circulation over the Adriatic Sea.
This shows the jet stream forecast for today which pretty perfectly matches what we are seeing here from the satellite imagery.

But while the circulation is gone the jet remains. This jet looks like it is going to move into the business of delivering moisture to the Middle East.
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18 Jul
The presentation of the #ArabianMonsoonBurst has changed dramatically today with the consolidation of activity over the Arabian Peninsula into a single huge storm which is currently moving into the Red Sea over Makkah and Jeddah.

Today's rainfall forecasts follow.
The scale of the storm over Islam's holiest city is huge, larger than France. Two more huge storms loom over the greater region tonight. One on the Iranian Gulf coast and another supercell thunderstorm complex over New Delhi/Rajastan, India, the size of the United Kingdom.
The last six hours in three animations, first India which is experiencing a massive monsoon day today in the north.

[Here the initial frames show a blank SEA as their was a satellite data outage.]
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A Portrait of Earth's Biosphere

This thread provides a tour of the global biosphere in pictorial form.

The animations were acquired from @zoom_earth on July 14th, and take us on a journey beginning in the North East Pacific over the course of a single day.
The first image ^^ is of North West America.

Here we see the South East Pacific
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