As the #UNGA is focused on Climate Change the biosphere is putting on a show. We currently have powerful cyclones in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans and the yet more extreme weather, even though it's now late September.
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Today I have had a deep look around the globe after very active North Atlantic and a massive United States sized circulating low in Europe - exhibiting some of the same characteristics which resulted in severe flooding in July developed of East Europe.
Here's the big-picture view which includes:
- A cyclone in the West Pacific: forecast to become a Super Typhoon.
- A depression in the Bay of Bengal: forecast to become a Severe Cyclone.
- A hurricane in the Tropical Atlantic: forecast to become a Cat4 Hurricane.
The tropical atmospheric river travels east to west, and we will follow this view before heading north and back East as the Atlantic recycles colossal amounts of water and sends them back across the North Atlantic to Europe.
Here we see 24 hours, West Pacific to India.
24 hours around the Arabian Sea. A low over Myannmar is becoming cyclonic. This is forecast to head West over India, where it is forecast to bring lots of rain, ultimately producing a significant late season monsoon burst west over Pakistan and the Arabia.
And finally we see where a large portion of this water and energy will get recycled over the U.S. and the North Atlantic and flow back into Europe.
So this is what is happening now. We will now move to long range forecasts of what the supercomputers expect will happen over the coming 16 days through to the 10th of October. Again we start in the East. The forecast super-typhoon is not expected to landfall in Japan.
However the thing to notice in this animation of 16 days of precipitable water, is just how much water cyclones elevate into the upper atmosphere.
Here we see a the northern Indian Ocean. Again we see how water generated initially over the Bay of Bengal moves West and lingers.
And finally, the Tropical Atlantic. Here we see the impact of Hurricane Sam. Once water is airborne it has to go somewhere. And in the North Atlantic their are two paths one over the U.S. (then East over NthAtl). The other takes a more direct route towards Europe.
And finally we see how this cycle ends - massive atmospheric waves of water crashing onto Western Europe. Four waves over the next 16 days [Noting that there is already a lot of water over Europe - and water is also coming north over the Western Sahara].
(Finally in terms of the oceans - the next part of this story shows the path of this water back over Eurasia)
This view shows the water/energy picture over Europe.
And here we see Eurasia. In the northern areas some of this water may fall as snow. When wet air encounters cold air it falls as rain or snow.
The next set of images show the forecast accumulated rainfall expected over the next 16 days over most of the occupied land on the planet.
First China, Eurasia and India.
And then in clockwise order around the North Atlantic beginning with North Africa (including ME and East Africa.)
All images show 16 days of accumulated rain. All are from @NOAA's GFS global weather model. A lot of this rain is falling over the oceans.
And ... Tropical Atlantic, North America, NW Atlantic and NE Atlantic.
A lot of this rain is falling over the Atlantic Ocean.
And finally (completing the circle around Asia) Europe.
So how unusual this is vs what we would normally expect at this time of year? Here we see rainfall anomaly over the entire Northern Hemisphere.
Blue = a big anomaly. On a 16 day horse race the most anomalous areas are NE China, NW India/Pakistan, the ME, East Africa & Sahel.
This shows part of that picture on the same basis. The Atlantic, East North America, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
Here we see the total 16 day anomaly in the Western Pacific. North Eastern China, including Beijing and Henan are set to receive a lot of late season un-seasonal rain it seems. This is likely also caused by the late Indian monsoon flareup.
Here we see the area where this late season anomaly is forecast to originate. The Indian Ocean/Subcontinent.
Here we see the Middle East portion of this. The anomaly data you see in these animations starts in seven days time (from beginning of October) and runs for 9 days.
And finally the Europe and North Africa Coast Rainfall Anomaly animation.
And to end. Here's one of the three cyclones we will be tracking in coming days. Hurricane Sam, which is currently forecast to strengthen rapidly in coming days before turning north eastwards towards Europe.
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This video is about the work done by the “terrorist” who drove through the Magdeburg Christmas Market tonight at high speed killing injuring around 100 people.
How does a doctor practicing as a psychiatrist go from being a women’s rights defender focussed on Assisting Islamic women to escape an oppressive culture to being a multi murderer in his adopted country.
Meet @DrTalebJawad
A very unusual terrorist.
A good starting point for those interested in getting closer to the truth about what happened tonight is to visit @DrTalebJawad ‘s Twitter profile and look at his recent messages before the account gets locked.
It is immediately apparent that this is not your normal Islamic terrorist, in fact it quickly becomes apparent from his tweets that he was likely suffering from a psychotic break or something similar before he committed the horrific act of terrorism in Magdeburg.
This incident took place in Magdeburg a city relatively near to where I am currently in Eastern Germany. It was fairly late evening. But the news exploded locally very quickly on Twitter.
And the initial speculation was of course that the terrorist was Islamic and that it was another planned terror attack.
At this point several hours later however it looks like the perpetrator was having an accrue psychological break.
Follow @bartov_omer he is an Israeli Genocide Scholar and (my guess) a realist geopolitical analyst who will almost certainly be heard a lot in coming days and weeks. x.com/bartov_omer?s=…
…. In large part because his explanation of the true nature of the implementation of the current phase of the so-called “general’s plan” in Gaza and the criminality of @IsraeliPM Bibi Netanyahu is so clear and authoritative.
The war in Gaza is now over Bartov explains.
What is now happening, and what remains to be done on the a Israeli side is effectively the implementation of the full Zionist extremist (Ben Givir Smotrich and Netanyahu plan - I.e. removing Palestinians from Gaza altogether, an object that will be achieved through starving the remaining civilians and using other methods to make it impossible to continue to live there.
The strip is already being carved up into enclaves for this purpose. You could call them “Ghettos” (my word) corralling and keeping the Palestinian population separated whilst efforts to remake and settle the strip are completed.
. @amanpour It’s not just the IDF that responds to press questions with rote answers that are clearly false.
The U.S. @StateDept has been doing exactly the same thing throughout the war for 14 months. Parroting the line “Israel has a right to defend itself” when everyone in the planet knows this is not true.
I know you must know this also. We all do.
I commend your report but I ask you and your network to please go further and actively oppose this war. And to call for it to end.
It is clear now in recent statements from Trump and Netanyahu that another war is intended in the Middle East by the U.S. and Israel. Its advocates will stood start lining up to beat the drums for this war.
Please @CNN, it is now time to end all of this.
The question we all have then is “When will the U.S. bring this evil to an end?”
A war with Iran 21 years after the horrific war in Iraq will have devastating consequences beyond imagining.
In its unwavering support for Netanyahu these past 14 months the U.S. is in the process now of destroying itself. Just as Israel is, or has done already.
The first speaker in this star studded panel here is sober clear and damning.
“… featuring Mustafa Barghouti, Mads Gilbert, Ilan Pappe, and Ingrid Fiskaa – discusses and critically explores three key areas: the present moment where Gaza remains under constant genocidal attack from Israel; the so-called “legitimacy” of the rules-based order (including but not limited to international law) that’s supposed to prevent or stop such violence; and the future of rebuilding Gaza in a way that actually honours the hopes, dreams and aspirations of the Palestinian people.”
The panel is moderated by Paul Salvatori, senior producer and presenter at TRT World.
As Christmas and the New Year approach, reflection, both self and outward looking are part of the zeitgeist for the faithful throughout the world.
As it stands this Christmas in Bethlehem will be the “second Christmas during an ongoing Genocide”. Placed in quote marks here because it seems hard to reconcile with reality.
How can this still be continuing?
How is it that the @Statedept even now - 15 months after October 7th and more recently the defeat of both Hezbollah and Assad - is still mostly saying “Israel has a right to defend itself. As massacres of 50-80 Gaza civilians - predominantly women and children - continue to occur on a daily basis.
Could there at least be a Christmas and New Years Truce? A brief silencing of the guns, a break from the endless massacre of innocents via fire-from-the-sky, as if Gaza were now Mordor.
It is certainly already nearly as desolate.
Someone needs to ask Bibi Netanyahu who is unusually and nearly singularly responsibility for all of this. WHEN AND HOW DOES THIS END?
There is a new chapter on the story of Mosab Hassan Yousef.
This is the original production of this. But he will soon be known far better than he was when Chris Cuomo brought his story to life here back in December 2023 at the outset of the war, in the wake of January 7th.
Hamas Founder's Son Turned Israeli Spy - Mosab Hassan Yousef, "The Green... youtu.be/llJxz1pAlQQ?si… via @YouTube
“Hamas’s Aspiration is global”
“The Muslim Brotherhood is Here in the United States.”
For clarification Mosab Hassan is unquestionably completely genuine and in is views, and like me he is a pacifist when it comes to saving human life from conflict. And this as he articulates very very clearly remains his view.
And for this reason - notwithstanding the fact that this latest broadcast is extremely triggering, and will likely soon become very controversial, is also very important.
The target of this messaging is Americans. Not me.
And probably not you, even though a large portion of my followers are in the U.S.
“The Neighbours & friends of Syria, and international solidarity movements, and all people of good consciousness need to develop a counter strategy to the ongoing U.S-Israel War Drumming - that is now clearly moving U.S. towards a 2003 repeat of the 2nd Gulf War.”
“The media's role in a democratic society in general is to provide the public with an informed basis upon which they can exercise their democratic rights to lobby, and express their views on what should happen to their elected representatives. And nothing changes during wartime.
When measured by this standard I would conclude that the media both here in New Zealand and everywhere else in the Western World – with the exception of the Internet – has failed spectacularly to do its job.”