30 Jul 00:48. Last week should have been a wet one but there were a
number of tropical or subtropical events going on along with a
negative block to the weat of the North Atlantic. Some volcanic
activity and a large magnitude quake too.

Despite that some parts of the UK did get wet weather. Just not the
place where I live which was extremely nice.

The phase that starts this spell (5 Aug, 21:20,
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclips...se2001gmt.html) is an
odd one. Normally -and in the absence of tropical storms, if the time
of phase is 21:00, there will be a lot of thunderstorms.

However the harmonic (or whatever) for this one is right on some sort
of a cusp -unless I have missed my mark from other similar times. Some
misty weather showed up on forecasts yesterday and someone on another
weather newsgroup has reported thick fog.

Thick fog portends more West Pacific cyclonic activity. And by
inference from them, some magnificent dust storms. If you want to use
a search engine to check that out against the Met Office's archive of
such storms:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...2007/july.html
and the above link to lunar phases might try this input:

"dust ~storms" -Mars
or
~"dust storms" -Mars

The quotes keeps the phrase dust storms together while the ~ character
makes some engines look for similar meanings or alternative words and
the negative command stops the results from holding too many
references to Martian dust storms.

For some odd reason Usenet is populated with arguments about Martian
dust storms. God knows why. Their speculation might be informative one
day but not yet. Earth's dust storm on the other hand....

But there is no accounting for people and no reconciliation between
democracy and sense. (I have never heard of a crowd making a wise
decision when mustered to come to one.)

On Aug 5, 11:31 am, Weatherlawyer wrote:
30 Jul 00:48. Last week should have been a wet one but there were a
number of tropical or subtropical events going on along with a
negative block to the weat of the North Atlantic. Some volcanic
activity and a large magnitude quake too.

Despite that some parts of the UK did get wet weather. Just not the
place where I live which was extremely nice.

The phase that starts this spell (5 Aug, 21:20,http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclips...se2001gmt.html) is an
odd one. Normally -and in the absence of tropical storms, if the time
of phase is 21:00, there will be a lot of thunderstorms.

However the harmonic (or whatever) for this one is right on some sort
of a cusp -unless I have missed my mark from other similar times. Some
misty weather showed up on forecasts yesterday and someone on another
weather newsgroup has reported thick fog.

Thick fog portends more West Pacific cyclonic activity. And by
inference from them, some magnificent dust storms. If you want to use
a search engine to check that out against the Met Office's archive of
such storms:http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...ulletins/2007/...
and the above link to lunar phases might try this input:

"dust ~storms" -Mars
or
~"dust storms" -Mars

The quotes keeps the phrase dust storms together while the ~ character
makes some engines look for similar meanings or alternative words and
the negative command stops the results from holding too many
references to Martian dust storms.

For some odd reason Usenet is populated with arguments about Martian
dust storms. God knows why. Their speculation might be informative one
day but not yet. Earth's dust storm on the other hand....

But there is no accounting for people and no reconciliation between
democracy and sense. (I have never heard of a crowd making a wise
decision when mustered to come to one.)

More bang for the buck.

An earlier storm has returned almost 3 hours later marking the times
of high tide or something similar here. It would have been thundering
some half to a full hour earlier in Abergele I imagine.

I think if it isn't more than a few peals of thunder just now there
will be a full frontal roarer just after midnight or maybe just after
3 am.

I'd been toying with the idea of looking back at a fairly recent post
to see just how far back a tropical or extra tropical cyclone in the
West Pacific would turn the clock on this phase.

Now it might have to wait while I switch off the box again.