No tropical storms after all according to the MetO charts:
http://gifninja.com/animated-gifs/56...for18-jan-2012

But it looks like a severe series of earthquakes in South America or
the Antarctic peninsulars by Thursday afternoon (19th Jan 2012.) After
that, the spell turns volcanic.

In Britain there maybe thunder. Temperatures will get warmer.

Yesterday's run looked like forming a tropical storm. Today, not. The
air-stream is governed by the nearest High and Low pressure systems.
So Britain will get steadily warmer as both vortices combine to bring
in warm Atlantic air.

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http://gifninja.com/animated-gifs/56...harts-from-bom

Africa is relatively free of earthquakes. But it has the world's
extremes of weather. There does appear to be a stream along which
different cycles of earthquakes travel down the Rim of Fire around the
Pacific.

And now I think I have identified one running up from Antarctica.

When a Low Pressure system splits up, a series of related quakes
occur. I don't know where.
Yet!

If the Low stays intact, the quake it is related to will be so much
larger.

There seems to be a lot of correlation with the Weddel Sea and the
South American and Antarctica Peninsulars, that I have not seen
before.

The Weddel Sea is where all the cold water leaving the Arctic from the
Davis Straight ends up before going to the Aguilera current off S.W.
Africa.

The charts are updated at:
http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/char...rea=SH&model=G

It isn't known what happens next, Yet.

Most of the Low is still intact on the next day's forecast. It may go
around one more time. The Lows move 20 degrees in 30 hours or so.

They harbour in the Weddel Sea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Antarctica.svg

Note the series of quakes on the 15th and 16th Jan 2012, included
South Shetland and South Sandwich Islands (both regions in the channel
between South America and Antarctica.

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