The forecast path of Extratropical Cyclone Sam is unusual to say the least. The storm is expected to reach as far north as Iceland. And will continue to impact European Weather significantly for several more days.
Here is a 120 hour forecast for the north Atlantic where you can see how the storm continues northwards.
Here's another view of the same model, @NOAA's GFS which places it in larger context.
This forecast animation also from the GFS model data takes us forward for 16 days, and it is apparent that tropical systems impacts on Europe persist for some time yet.
Finally, to help understand why these weather impacts are causing significant issues here is 16 day forecast of the North Western Hemisphere jet-streams, which remain spectacularly complicated and unsually disorderly.
This additional thread posted earlier shows us the consequences of this complexity, with live data over the past 24 hours in Europe.
Within the atmospheric column there are multiple different atmospheric rivers, moving in different directions at different altitudes. The jet-streams, which are 10-18kms high are the most important as they transport the most water, and do so at high speed over long distances.
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The appearance by @antonioguterres at the end of the meeting is perhaps the most striking bit of all of this.
"It is my duty to defend the honour of the United Nations," he said when asked about his "right of reply" at end.
VIDEO: (Beginning 2:36mins) media.un.org/en/asset/k17/k…
"The UN has no political agenda in Ethiopia. Our agenda is just one to support the Ethiopian people, Tigrayans, Amaharas, Afaris, Somalis, that have suffered so much. We cannot see people going on dying, because of bullets, because of hunger...
"... we need to do everything to stop this conflict. We need to do everything to ensure that humanitarian aid is distributed everywhere to everybody. We need to do everything for a dialogue to be established among Ethiopians to solve the problems in Ethiopia."
The @UN_Spokesperson's insubstantive remarks on Ethiopia at today's media briefing was likely indeference UNSG @antonioguterres, who has chosen to make it the focus of the UNSC centerpiece of the day, the consultation on "Peace and Security in Africa".
Estonia followed Ireland, so far the statements have been very predictable. Reiterating and reinforcing existing flawed understanding of what has been, and is happening in Ethiopia.
France speaking now, says Obasanjo is in Paris tomorrow to talk to the French. A short formulaic statement also.
The US debate over Facebook regulation is mostly focused on the impact of dangerous, unmoderated hate speech inside the U.S. @SPP_FI raises important questions about global regulation of the hate speech giant.
The rest of the developed world barely gets any attention from @Facebook let alone the developing world, where it is huge and plays a significantly greater role in political communications than it does in the west.
In NZ in 2019, a lone Australian gunman killed 51 people on a rampage through two mosques in Christchurch, where I went to school. His shooting spree was streamed live on Facebook on thousands of pages and groups. It was far and away the largest terror event ever in NZ.
The main feature we see in this animation is a cold dry air blast coming in from the east and colliding with a high pressure system located initially roughly speaking over the Bay of Biscay. The water concentration over the Med/Italy Alps suggests significant precipitation there.
This forecast shows the very complicated evolution of water transport over this five day period - JetStream 11-18km high winds carrying elevated moisture into Europe from the North Atlantic.