Weatherlawyer wrote:
Nov 28 06:29 Dec 5 00:25 Dec 12 14:32
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclips...hases2001.html
The code goes roughly like this:
5 am or pm and it is anticyclonic.
1:30 am or pm very wet.
6 or 12 am or pm misty.
And this run of spells is for misty. Or rather they all just miss that
spell by 30 minutes. (Well last weeks and this weeks does. !4:32 is
more like an hour out. Except it is a weak spell.)
(Of its kind, ilk, species..)
Looks interesting is what I mean. What it is is something like half way
to another severe typhoon and the typhoons seem to drag with them a
series of large mag quakes. If that happens, the cyclones in the North
Atlantic will go north again and not break on Norway and dissipate. A
situation akin to a negative NAO.
So we have two half past misties and a half way to thunder coming up.
As Typhoon Utor prepares to find somewhere in the Philippines not
already devastated by Durain, some here might care to peruse these
splatters:
2.6 59.258 -152.813 SOUTHERN ALASKA
3.9 60.147 -153.192 SOUTHERN ALASKA
3.7 60.165 -153.138 SOUTHERN ALASKA
2.6 62.092 -151.294 CENTRAL ALASKA
3.3 53.675 -163.879 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
3.3 53.614 -163.721 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
2.9 31.846 -116.356 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
4.3 31.794 -116.312 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
See also:
HANOI, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- Typhoon Durian in Vietnam had killed 50
people and left 55 others missing by Tuesday night, local newspaper
Youth reported Wednesday.
The typhoon, which started to hit Vietnam's central region on Monday
night and then swept through its southern region, also injured 409
people, of whom 164 were seriously injured, damaged 119,314 houses, and
caused 888 ships and boats to sink, the newspaper quoted the Central
Steering Committee on Storm and Flood Prevention as reporting.
Durian killed 28 people and left 16 others missing in southern Ba Ria
Vung Tau province. The respective figures were 17 and one in southern
Ben Tre province, and two and 26 in southern Tien Giang province.
The main reason of high fatalities and injury rates was the
subjectivity of local people and inexperience in dealing with typhoon
of local authorities. Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung criticized
leaders of Ben Tre, Tien Giang, Ba Ria Vung Tau and central Binh Thuan
province for their poor anti-typhoon activities, the newspaper said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_5442387.htm
And:
CEBU, Philippines (AP) - Two Asian summits scheduled for next week
have been postponed to January because a strong storm is bearing down
on the meeting site, a top Philippine official said Friday.
Marciano Paynor Jr., head of the summit organizing committee, denied
that the decision was driven by the threat of terrorism. The U.S.,
Britain and Australia had warned Thursday that terrorists might be in
the final stages of planning an attack during the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations and East Asia summits in Cebu.
"Categorically I will state that the decision was based on this weather
disturbance and this weather disturbance only," Paynor told a news
conference, adding there was a 70% chance that the storm would hit Cebu
province.
The storm is expected to hit the area when Asian leaders would be
flying in over the weekend, Paynor said. The ASEAN summit was scheduled
to be held Monday and Tuesday, followed by the second East Asia summit
on Wednesday.
Military chief of staff Gen. Hermogenes Esperon said the 10,000-strong
security contingent was prepared for anything.
"The assessment is that we have deployed enough security forces and,
minus the weather, we are confident we could hold it," Esperon said.
Paynor said Tropical Storm Utor had just been upgraded to a typhoon,
but Prisco Nilo, acting chief of the Philippine weather bureau, later
said it had not reached that criteria as of late Friday.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurr...lippines_x.htm