Weatherlawyer wrote:

This one has finally produced an anticyclone: Dec 12 14:32
So this one: Dec 20 14:01, is likely to grow into one of the sunniest
spells of the month, except that anticyclonic weather is cold at night
it would add to the statistics beloved of metofficers everywhere,
record temperatures.

Dec 27th's spell at 14:48, is likely to provide quite a bit of thunder
all else being equal, so to speak:

On the 31st of December, the declination of the moon is around the 23
degrees north. Counterbalancing the angle of the sun.

That could do it. I'm not saying it will of course. I'm just happy the
typhoons have blown out for the moment.

Time to start preparing next years hurricane forecasts.

It looks like this week's phase, that is remarkably similar to that of
the 20th December, is another bust. Bear in mind we did have some
thunder as mooted and even got one or two tornadoes, so this unsettled
or "weak" spell is anyone's guess.
The MetO looks like it knows what it is doing, despite several lurid
reports of national disaster in the red press.

So that means more supercyclones in the tropics.

Does It?

I feel there is some potential he
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/...quakes_all.php
What structural forces may have been dissipated with a few mag 6
pluses, has had to make do with 5.2s and 3s (one 5.7 at best.)

And of course no shortage of vulcanicity.