Thread by @althecat

This #ExtremeWeather tweet did not age well.
The very slow moving #Biparjoy continues to advance well inland into Ragastan and remains very much a threat to over land - which was the problem with the (in many ways) similar Pakistan storm in June 2022. Which is ominous and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

L-R Biparjoy (Western India) O3B (Bangladesh) and Guchol are lined up on the same latitude - and this probably explains why.

O3B - the one off the coast of Bangladesh was fairly short lived, but still strong enough to seed significant water vapour into the atmosphere which was… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Meanwhile #CycloneBiparjoy West was still going strong last night - long after it was expected to dissappate, probably due to it being fed by Westerly winds full of water vapour.

This cyclone originated in the same place as the Pakistan cyclone. Which was also powered by… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Unlike the Pakistan Cyclone however Biparjoy is not stationary which makes it significantly less dangerous/impactful than the unamed storm which caused such devastation last June.

The following sequence of animations shows the life of #BiparjoyCyclone which like the storm over Pakistan at the same time last year is seriously aberrant in terms of its length of time over land and its maintenance of high levels of cyclonic energy.

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The last two days 2/2 18th-19th June

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