On May 4, 10:12 am, "Col" wrote:
"Alan White" wrote in message
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This is a very civilised newsgroup in which we all manage to jog along
without too much excitement and because of that it's a very enjoyable
environment.
I must admit I take too many opportunities to troll my fanatics. I
have to admit that the glee I feel doing so is counter-productive. I
do intend to hold back but once i get into the spirit of things I
can't let go.
It's a major character defect in someone who actually wants to be a
nice bloke but is too much of a pig to be so.
Your 'ad holmium attempt to belittle another subscriber by posting in
his style I found offensive. I also found offensive your attempt to
present your views as representing those of the rest of this group.
I saw this in another newsgroup some years ago and such an attack quickly
developed into a very unpleasant vendetta which split the group apart in
a way which was very destructive with long lasting effects.
Fortunately, that's unlikely to happen here because of the natural ambience
of the group and because you appear to be the only person with such a
deep antipathy to the posts of 'Weathercaster.
Your solution to your antipathy is to kill file him, not to try to wage a war.
If one is using Google and Firefox you can get a filter of sorts for
it at
http://www.penney.org/google-groups-....html#comments
Don't use it to block comments until the author sorts out the "page
spread" bug if you want to play with the settings.
You need Mozilla GreaseMonkey for it too.
Blocking posters can cause the whole thread to disappear in Google if
the last poster is on the filter.
I found his post in 'Weatherlawyer speak' to be very funny.
One does one's best.
And yes, he can be very insulting, usually to people who have the
temerity to actually ask him to explain his forecasting methods.
Almost, but no cigar.
I've posted what I do and how I do it so often I have lost track of
things. But there has been a lot to catch up on with what I have
learned of lately so stand by. I am just waiting for Richard Dixon to
tell us what caused the strange behaviour of that low (that is still
active in the N Atlantic BTW.)
Everybody's an idiot apart from him, apparently.
That may be your opinion but I do not fully subscribe to it.
OK for the temporary readers of the amazing, here is something
confluent and, for the moment, current:
The weather in Britain whilst that storm in the Bay of Bengal was at
full throttle, has been quite good. YMMV of course, some have had
rain. Here there was mostly sunshine with light showers or drizzle.
Now the storm is but a gale and well inland the conditions are
returning to what they should be here for the time of the phase.
(I have been lucky at the expense of those Asians as I have leg cramps
normally for such spells. They have been so slight so far this spell
to have been almost unnoticeable.)
There should now appear two (or more) earthquakes of 5M or over (most
likely mid to high sixes) that take place within half a degree of each
other and no other quakes will appear between them in the NEIC list,
no matter how many hours apart they are.
That phenomenon appears to be related to massive storms in general. I
have until recently ascribed them to Tropical Storms alone.
The counterpoint to this phenomenon is that before a powerful storm
brews up, the same list will provide advice of it. In that case the
phenomenon is that no significant earthquake will take place for
perhaps 24 or more hours.
It may prove that the length of time lapsed and maybe the power of the
bracketing quakes will indicate the potential of the storm. And who
knows; maybe even the location.
Here is another one. I am wondering if the pressure of Highs in the
Arctic increases with the severity of such storms.
That forecast of an high of 1058 mb posted midnight Saturday 3rd
May:
http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.p...z51l0j&thumb=6 ...would have been written when the actual storm was at 115 knots.
And to knock it completely out of whack, the warnings posted by this
man:
http://earthquake.itgo.com/today.htm (which have a window of a week or
so) are in the same region as that storm.
Had the man the access to the same data that the rest of us have, I am
sure he would rethink his explanation of the cause. And include
meteorological data and forecasts.