Storm Barra has brought rain to all the United Kingdom.
Here's an animation of the the storm arriving overnight yesterday and yesterday morning.
As storms go. Storm Barra looks pretty cool from a satellite vantage point.
Similar image with the outlines of Ireland and the UK for orientation.
A 12 hour view of the Storm Barra's leading edge crossing Ireland and the UK.
A wider angle view, on the right you can see a second storm of similar scale over Greece, the Aegean Sea and Western Turkey.
And finally a view of the two storms, both of which are caused by atmospheric rivers originating in the tropical Atlantic.
Here's a different view,a forecast for the next 10 days (from late yesterday) of atmospheric water. As you can see Storm Bara is not particularly wet compared to some of the water masses which are incoming.
Over Libya at the beginning you can see the origins of 2nd storm.
This view, also 10 days, shows us where this water is coming from, West Africa and Red Sea from the look of things.
Finally what does the coming fortnight look like, and the answer is that through to Christmas this is going to be fairly relentless, especially in Ireland and the UK.
At the end of that forecast you can see a lot of water over the Eastern Med. and the Levant. And according to the current forecast, that water will bring rain/snow, lots of it to Turkey and Greece but not only, also rain to the Meditranean Coast, Israel, Syria Jordan & Nth KSA.
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There is a lot of concern about evacuations of civilians from Gaza in the flotilla as anyone leaving may not be able to return any time soon. /2
But the moral hazard here is palpable. There are thousands of injured and starving mostly women and children. And we saw the young babies dying in the hospitals in the early stages of this war. /3
More and more naval vessels from Europe and the Middle East are being deployed to protect the Global Samir Flotilla as it moves slowly but surely towards Gaza where it intends to deliver aid and global attention. /1
Attacks from drones on the flotilla have resumed and Israel is presumably responsible for this. It is because of this that naval vessels from Europe are now joining the flotilla to protect their citizens rights of travel in international waters. /2
The escalation appears fairly slow at present and the flotilla is still within Greek waters at present /3
The #Samud #GazaFlotilla is currently sailing across the Ionian Sea towards the island archipelago south east of Athens in the Western Mediterranean. Conditions appear good for this leg that departed from Sicily after leaving Tunisia. The Flotilla set off from Barcelona.
2/ this current leg is 860 kms roughly and lead boats in the 51 vessel flotilla are currently approaching south western Greece. You can follow the flotillas progress here >> flotilla-orpin.vercel.app
3/ After two drone attacks on flotilla boats in Tunisia the flotilla sailed first to Sicily where it was joined by several more boats. And this map shows the path of the flotilla so far. The numbers in the dots indicate more vessels joining #GazaFlotilla