Weatherlawyer wrote:

It is a run of two similar spells and is not due to end with the next
phase. So be prepared for another shake up or sea change at the end of
the month/early February.

So it begins: 7.7M 2006/01/27 16:58 BANDA SEA

A couple of days early but never mind, we were all on the watch were we
not?

I wrote this yeaterday: Intense Lows over Newfoundland, the Antarctic
Peninsula and Kuril Islands.

I'm having my usual stomach disorder but nothing osseous ATM. No wind
no thunder and nothing exciting showing up on the maps.

I am not feeling a lot better yet. Coincidence? Perhaps.