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#MiddleEastRainEvent update 15th Jan (2pm AST)

The last 24 hours of #ArabianStorms over the Arabian Peninsula, the storm area has changed trajectory and is moving south east along the Gulf coast.

https://twitter.com/althecat/status/1482075418584879104

Here's closeup of the overnight storm activity over Saudi and the Gulf, again 24 hours.

For a scale comparison here is a measurement of the area of storm activity close to its peak, 115k km2.

Here we have a satellite measured rainfall image of the storm impact. We can see here the majority of rainfall during this period was over Iran.

The rain impacts over the Eastern Mediterranean coast- Sinai, Israel, Lebanon and Jordan by contrast has been significantly less than forecast two days ago. So far very little of this rainfall has been realised.

https://twitter.com/althecat/status/1481615443018272781?s=20

Here's the rain over last 24 hours as recorded by @meteoblue Perhaps it will pick up - we are now half way through the 90 hour forecast - first image in the quoted tweet above.

@meteoblue Region wide 13th-14th Jan 24h rainfall - @meteoblue.

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