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2 Jan, 14 tweets, 8 min read
Interesting, Hael (sometimes spelled Hail) may well be where the word “hail” comes from. Earlier in the year it had some amazing hail storms. Weather in the Middle East atm really is seriously cray cray.
Also in #SaudiArabia #ArabianStorms
And a thread from #Kuwait #ArabianStorms
And some rainfall data from the #UAE. They had a particularly massive thunderstorm complex over both Dubai and Abu Dhabi early yesterday morning.
We now have video of this Saudi Tornado near Hael in the northern part of Saudi Arabia.
And from a different vantage point. #Hail #Hael #Tornado
Snowfall in Egypt.
There is also snowfall in #KSA and lots of flooding. Extraordinary #extremeWeather videos from all over the Middle East can be found on @Arab_Storms account.
Flooding in Kuwait appears to have been particularly bad. Which is far fro surprising as they were in the center of the path of the heaviest rains for several days.
. @Arab_Storms has multiple videos from Kuwait which are well worth checking out.

@tqqs is also a superb source for imagery. Here we see a wooded area in which water has pooled, with some trees almost submerged,
There has also been heavy extensive rain in Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Qatar and Bahrain. The highest levels of rain and snowfall however are forecast for mountains in Iran.

Here we see a river in dangerous flood.
I particularly like this one which appears to show an Iranian fishing boat full of fish caught in a hailstorm with very large hailstones. Similar to those on Australia or Texas.
In conclusion:

1. Thanks 🙏 @Arab_Storms and @tqqs.
2. Long range simulation forecasts show this extreme weather event is far from over.
3. They show this will continue till mid January at least.
4. Follow @althecat for forecasts and news.
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2 Jan
Something extraordinary is happening in the Middle East weather wise.

This thread begins in Ethiopia because it is playing a part in this, and will also receive rain from albeit not on the scale of what is happening to the north, in places where they are not used to this much.
The thread attached here is supplementary, posted earlier it contains videos mostly from @Arab_Storms who is based in the UAE whose account is documenting #ExtremeWeather events, with a focus on the #MiddleEast

It contains videos mostly from yesterday.
@Arab_Storms This thread relates to today, or more specifically the last 24 hours which has seen even greater storm activity than yesterday. This thread posted last night contains similar data to what I will be posting now about the extent and location of rainfall.
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Atmospheric Extreme Weather event overnight in the Mid West and North East United States.
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A 610,000 km2 procession of thunderstorms over an area larger than France.
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This thread is about Hurricane Dorian, the storm that was originally forecast to make a devastating landfall on Mar-A-Lago, and which Trump famously claimed was going to head to Alabama.

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Selective reporting plus selective quoting make for an interesting melange. @LaurenBinDC’s cognitive dissonance echoes loudly in this thread.

She fails to mention for example that @1_filsan didn’t resign till September.
Meanwhile the @washingtonpost’s report fails to mention that the Govt of Ethiopia convened not only the task force that Filsan ran to establish the truth early in the war, which clearly was not the reason for her resignation, but also prosecuted offenders in military courts.
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So here we have a Western academic, European, telling Ethiopia that unless it accepts two terrorist groups as participants in a planned national dialogue, that dialogue is worthless, just symbolic.

Interesting take.
This particular scholar has been talking all manner of nonsense lately. His conduct reflects poorly on the institutions he names in his Twitter bio.

The effort to bring peace to Ethiopia after hopefully silencing the guns is nascent, barely begun.
And this scholar dismisses it out of hand.
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In the North of the North Pacific up near Alaska there is a very large area of clear Ocean that that can be seen through the clouds which looks a little like a giant rotating eye.
Here we see it in context along side North America, and the entire rotating high-pressure area appears to be roughly the size of North America. Its presence appears to be contributing to the big freeze in Canada and all the snow in the US.
The image above shows the #EyeOfThePacific on December 26-27.

And here we see it on December 27-28. At the bottom of the animations you can see the onshore atmospheric river flows which are bringing massive rains to California, and moisture to the midwest and north east.
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