According to http://www.weather.org.uk/charts/UKCpf120.gif
the unsetled thundery spell that the phase at 09:21 on Saturday 20th
May 2006 is likely to instill, is all set to be rather a splash.

Remember:
You heard it here first.

Weatherlawyer wrote:

According to http://www.weather.org.uk/charts/UKCpf120.gif
the unsetled thundery spell that the phase at 09:21 on Saturday 20th
May 2006 is likely to instill, is all set to be rather a splash.

So with Chanchu heading straihgt for Hong Kong at 204 Kph then on to
the heart of darkness doesn't it seem to you that these disasters seem
to know exacltly who is ruining the balance of the planet and where?

Maybe it is god doing something about it? I mean the real one, it
doesn't quite fit with aepeism. I can't see the god of accidents
instituting a law about clean air.

Beware over there the Beeb has forecast frost here so you'd better take
care.

I have no idea how it works but it seems that this sort of weather is
likely to be the sort of weather that causes tornados accross the pond.

Local effects go like this:

1) a deep layer of dry air aloft (represented by the relative humidity
field at 700 mb)

2) a lower layer of moist air where the mixing ratio is high relative
to the dry air aloft (indicated by the moisture ridge at 850 mb)

3) a core of strong winds in the 10,000-20,000-ft layer (displayed
as the axis of maximum winds), and

4) a low level of free convection normally below 650 mb [level of free
convection (LFC)].

The likelihood of severe weather increases as the strength of these
fields increase.
More especially the way they increase in relation to each other puts it
on the button.

More good stuff on he
http://ams.allenpress.com/amsonline/...ume=87&issue=4

Deep stuff but worth the wade through. (Bloody awful discourse, though.)

Weatherlawyer wrote:

Beware over there the BBC has forecast frost in the UK, so you'd better take care.

I have no idea how it works but it seems that this sort of weather is
likely to be the sort that causes tornados across the pond.

There is an odd disparity with the "windows of prediction" for
meteorology and seismology despite their having the same engine.

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/wwa/ hav put up a couple of windows
the sizes of states in which severe thundestorm activity is slated.
IIRC someone predicting an earthquake must not only get the dimensions
right but the location down to the street corners.

Seems daft to me. All that is really needed is a message that the
planet is due for a bit of a shaking between so and so dates and let
the pieces fall where they will. Invariably there are not only
geophysical disasters globally but some sort of major accident all in
the same spell.

Time and again there are tragic mining or airline and shipping news
bulletins going out the same week that a severe earthquake or storm
hits a completely different part of the planet.

Some sort of fuzzy thinking takes over the brains of those having
oversight. Perhaps such spells are occasion that the watch should be
doubled not troubled? But who is going to listen to me?

Ah well as they say. I've done my bit.

Weatherlawyer wrote:
Weatherlawyer wrote:

Beware over there the BBC has forecast frost in the UK, so you'd better take care.

I have no idea how it works but it seems that this sort of weather is
likely to be the sort that causes tornados across the pond.

Is the way that the warning boxes for severe thunder and tornadic
activity moved ove rth elast few days, from the west to the east in a
peristaltic action, normal behaviour in the States?

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/wwa/

For what it's worth the tornadic activity has killed people despite the
lack of interest in the subject shown by our superiors.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/05/2...on=cnn_latest#
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/05/2...on=cnn_latest#

There were people kiled on the 10th of May too, as it happens. I can't
believe I am the only one who cares. But there you go:

"For as they were in those days before the flood, eating and drinking,
men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that Noah
entered into the ark; and they took no note until the flood came and
swept them all away."

(It explains what George was talking to god about when Katrina came and
washed all those people away. I wonder who was getting married? I know
exactly who was eating cake and taking no note; the bloody monkey!)