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.
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.
Here's the latest satellite imagery of TD10W (left) and #INFA (right)
Here is In-fa's current warning graphic from the Joint Typhoon warning center.
But what this does not mention is the unusual way in which In-fa is expected to respond when it gets near to TD10W.
This first animation from the latest GFS model shows the next 120 hours.
The thing to watch here is how the buzz saw anticlockwise spin on #INFA carves into the outflow moisture from #TD10W and flings it back out into the Pacific.
And that takes us to July 23rd, the day of the Olympics Opening Ceremony.
Here is another view of this same data looking at the anomaly. Because this is a super wet part of the world this time of year you can't even see #TD10W.
You can see #TD10W actually but barely. What is more obvious is the signature of the the depression's outflow moisture flowing back out into the Pacific.
Here, courtesy of @zoom_earth we can se the two storms together with their tracks as of now, in the early hours local time. Both storms are associated with huge areas of convection due to the moisture both low pressure systems are creating.
And this moisture is the fuel which the models suggest will create the storm that might disrupt the Olympics.
This animation shows the next 72 hours. In this forecast the storm is probably a Tropical Depression but may not strengthen enough to become a cyclone.
This storm, if it does come about as forecast, arrives in Tokyo in the afternoon on the 25th, and parts of it remain over the Japanese Archipelego until the end of the forecast on August 3rd.
Now there are a lot of ifs and buts about this, especially about the timing and the intensity of processes that we can see in these simulations.
That said the first five days can be expected to be similar to what we see in the forecast.
These are the accumulated GFS model rainfall forecasts for Hong Kong, Taiwan, Shanghai and China for the coming week, till Saturday. (And you can see half of Japan in there also)
As for Japan while there is a lot of uncertainty it is clear that it is under significant threat. This series of forecasts are for:
1. 5-Days (Olympics Opening - storm is beginning to form) 2. 7-Days (Outer rain bands approaching Tokyo)
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Accumulated rainfall forecasts for Japan at:
3. 10 days (July 28) 4. 12 Days (July 31st) 5. 14 Days (August 2nd) 6. 16 Days (Agust 4th)
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Whilst preparing to hold the Olympics, Japan is going to put in place civil defence plans to prepare for this potential deluge.
Also, this is not the worst case scenario.
It is entirely possible that this, for now hypothetical, super rain storm could become a Typhoon.
... Or this hypothetical super rain storm could miss Japan altogether and head north east into the Pacific.
To be prepared is to be fore-armed.
This is clearly the last thing Japan need's. But this is also what's so. And if anyone can manage this Japan can.
At this point following the Qatar obscenity Israel is now breaking the internet and the world.
something decisive is needed to break Israel - a peaceful action that will work and show the world that justice still exists and that peace is possible.
A wise friend proposed a brilliant idea. Every nation on earth which is willing and able should send a frigate to the Mediterranean Sea and take a message to Israel that it cannot ignore.
The foundations of the United Nations itself are now crumbling under the weight of the Gaza Obscenity and nations like Britain that seem to have been turned are facing protest and resistance of epic proportions from their citizens.
I’ll be posting videos and news here on Twitter from the flotilla which is about to depart from Majorca for Tunis on the first leg of the journey to Gaza.
More boats are expected to join the flotilla from Europe and North Africa along the way as it moves west across the Mediterranean. @GretaThunberg is making the voyage again and Israel will not be able to contain or stop this flotilla most likely. And definitely not the publicity.
This first video is of a wind squall hitting one of the boats as it departs Barcelona.
Netanyahu has proposed a pathway to end the war in Gaza under pressure primarily from the U.S. UK, France & Germany. Spain and Ireland and several other European nations & the European Commission.
The @israelipm sounds defeated. Hopefully this is the beginning of the end. The deal being offered to Gaza is far from perfect but it sounds workable in Netanyahus outline.
@IsraeliPM Whether it will be approved by Hamas however is unclear and rather complicated - as it’s unclear who inside Gaza would be in a position to respond to the offer. Many of Hamas’s fighters may prefer to die as martyrs also than to agree to any deal.
This is pathetic from @realDonaldTrump he’s lashing out like an angry teenager. Jerome Powell says he’s included a the costs of a building that was completed years ago in his very public attack on the FED Chair.
Trump has completely lost the plot. The single most damaging thing that he could do to undermine confidence in the U.S. dollar (which he publicly claims to want to deflate and there by make all Americans poorer - is to attack the Federal Reserve and the SEC.
@realDonaldTrump Trump is setting fire to the dollar to distract from his Epstein mess what a complete baby.
I attended the Bonn climate talks. They were very disappointing to everyone. The elephant in the room was (of course) the U.S. decision to withdraw from the talks altogether.
Unfortunately.. perhaps intentionally in advance of the continuation of climate talks regardless of #US_Disintigration the talks were also very sparsely attended particularly by activists and NGOs. The reason for this was @elonmusk destroying @-USAID.
@elonmusk As you can see the USAID Twitter account is now dead - deleted which is an appalling act of vandalism executed by Elon and his tech-bro team of teenagers.