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9 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
An update on extreme snow events around the world with tweets from @Arab Storms. The first shows 20 people being rescued from the snow storms in Northern Pakistan which have killed at least 22 people.
There has also been very heavy snow fall in Algeria's mountains.
Washington DC remains in the grip of an icy storm.
And Seattle has been cut off from the rest of Washington State by deep snow drifts.
And another picture from Pakistan, which appears to show a large group of people walking to safety.

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Alastair Thompson Profile picture
10 Jan
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#MiddleEastRainEvent2 Status Update:

Image below shows the situation as at roughly 2pm AST/EAT. A large storm with a line of thunderstorms sits over Saudi Arabia heading North East towards Iraq.

Quoted Tweet shows video from near Medina
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It has been a big night of storms, with a large storm over Medina for several hours. This morning it has also been raining in the Prophet's home town.
These two video gifs are from the live stream broadcast continuously of Al-Masjid an-Nabawi / المسجد النبوي.

You can find out more here >> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Masjid…
& watch live here >> makkahlive.net/madinalive.aspx
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10 Jan
This looks a bit hairy. Another colossal tropical atmospheric river driven rain event, this time all the way up the Eastern Seaboard at the same time.
Fortunately it will soon move out into the Atlantic.
Like the forecast Middle East Event come, this has very high IWVT numbers.
The difference is that this event is fast moving and its total duration appears to be 48 hours vs a forecast 72 hours for the intense period of what is coming in Saudi Arabia in a few days time.
This is a 63 hour IVWT forecast for this US Mid West/East Coast #ExtremeWeather event which is still underway.
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9 Jan
A special request to gobal news media. Please do not report this as fact. TPLF's efforts at peace ended the day they announced them with attacks on Ab'ala in Afar.

A major TPLF offensive in Western parts of Tigray was launched on or about December 28th.
This offensive has continued and intensified over the past 13 days, and the air-strikes that Reda Getachew complains about are part of the defensive operations against a renewed offensive, which appears to be aimed at opening a path to Sudan.
This offensive remains large scale renewed use of unarmed child soldiers and civilians as human waves and human shields. It is obscene in the extreme. And 1000s more innocent conscripted Tigrayans are dying for the TPLF leadership.
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9 Jan
#ExtremeWeather forecast analysis thread - Pakistan.

An #extremeweather snow event in Northern Pakistan has killed at least 22 people. This thread looks at the atmospheric causes assess whether this was avoidable.

It appears that it was.

news.sky.com/story/murree-2…
This animation shows the satellite presentation of the storm for 24 hours beginning on the sixth. And suggests that the ongoing #extremeweather in in the Middle East due to tropical water flows from the Amazon/Atlantic across the Sahara contributed.
News emerged about the tragedy on January 8th on social media. Tourists caught and buried in the snowstorm in their cars were the victims. Tweet 1/2 from @Arab_storms
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9 Jan
Widespread rains have started to fall over Egypt, the Sinai and in Jordan as expected as the active phase of a new #MiddleEast #ExtremeWeather event which is expected to run for the next nine days begins.

This is the 2nd large regional rain event in January.

#ClimateChangeNow.
The event is exactly as forecast, though timing and location of rain fall, particularly heavy rainfall is extremely hard to forecast.

This is the satellite presentation of the event this morning. There are two streams which are delivering rain, now dividing over the Red Sea.
3 hour update to 3.45pm local time. The size of the cloud covered area is now 1.5 million KM2. If past is prologue the heaviest rainfall should be expected over night as the atmosphere cools.
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9 Jan
This points to a need for the Govt. Of Ethiopia to operate a 24/7 media response desk which proactively talks to reporters, explains things to them on background and provides opportunities for them to conduct IVs and generally provides them with the sort of service they require.
I appreciate there is no trust and that the military situation is complicated and makes things difficult. But the value of such an effort and investment would be massive. One side needs to rebuild the trust and that has to be the GoE. @mfaethiopia ought to be involved.
Also media domestic and international need an update from @PMEthiopia urgently on the war, diplomatic efforts, the humanitarian situation and the prisoner release via @BilleneSeyoum.
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