I'm just collating today's BOM charts (and subject to the usual
waivers) it looks like there is a surge in the tornado strikes for
this spell.

It is not repeated in today's North Atlantic though, so...

The lunar phase is a perfect one for thunderstorms. (Also no longer
shown on the North Atlantic today.)

What is shown on the MetO's chart run is a northerly High moving to
southern Europe, allowing dying Lows to pass through an anticyclonic
sandwich (with the other High sitting on the shores of Norway.)

Activity seems low on the NEIC list so far today.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...quakes_big.php

The main reason for posting with this headline is that the belt of
stormy weather that surrounds Antarctica is holding off from the
coast.
http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/char...Refresh+ View

The black palls of depression that Do hit the line don't seem (to me
at least) to contain much threat of earthquakes. It is of course
summer so there is no daylight on the dark side of those storms.

So presumably the precipitation is lifting too soon?
That's enough for the dullards on here to struggle with for now. I'll
post my reasoning on the finding in a subsequent post.