On Jan 13, 9:28 am, Weatherlawyer wrote:

http://weather.unisys.com/images/sat_sfc_map_loop.html

Looks like there are two Mag 6 quakes pending, going by the current chart
on the above link. Maybe only one will be an M 6 and one just an high 5.

Now it looks like those Highs are heading inland to the Great Lakes.

It seems that the highs might slough off from the Canadian border or
maybe even further north.

Should be interesting.

This spell's tribulations were flooding in the UK and central Africa
as well as tornadoes in the US and Philippines. Perhaps interesting
was not the best word to use.

Something mor academic in these though:

2008/01/14
5.4 01:20. SOUTH WEST INDIAN RIDGE

2008/01/13
5.3 12:15. LUZON, PHILIPPINES
5.1 11:16:36 -16.000 -173.063 10.0 TONGA

2008/01/12
5.0 22:44. INDIA-BANGLADESH BORDER REGION
5.2 10:13. KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA
5.5 08:32. SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION

2008/01/11
5.0 04:43. SOUTH OF JAVA, INDONESIA

2008/01/10
6.3 01:37. OFF THE COAST OF OREGON
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/...quakes_big.php

The Oregon quake occurred on the last day that an high left the east
coast of the USA. (That's as near as I can tell from the Unisys site.)

If I am right, it is more circumstantial evidence that there is a
direct relationship between the two phenomena. What is a problem is
that the times involved don't seem to tie them in all that closely.

However the Unisys charts are filled in by meteorologist working to
schedules and data that is not as demanding as whatever it is in them
that relates to seismic activity.

15th Jan (19:46) So this is the last day of a most interesting spell.

Unfortunately the next one is somewhat similar, so expect very little
change in the GEM and GFS charts.

11:37 is as near to noon as 19:46 is to 18:00 as damn it is to
swearing. And the expected situation on this chart:
http://weather.unisys.com/images/sat_sfc_map_loop.html
at these times is:
A standing Low Pressure area situated somewhat to the left of the
Great Lakes.
With a complex set of High pressure areas trying to break through from
the west.

And I know what you are all thinking...
"Why don't the two of them get together and blow each other out?"

And the answer is:
Because if they did that then the weather in the troposphere would be
no different from the weather above the tropopause.

And I know what you are all thinking now......
"Why didn't you think of that?"

And the answer is:

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Because you are all a bunch of lemons.

On Jan 15, 12:00 am, Weatherlawyer wrote:

15th Jan (19:46) So this is the last day of a most interesting spell.

Unfortunately the next one is somewhat similar, so expect very little
change in the GEM and GFS charts.

11:37 is as near to noon as 19:46 is to 18:00 as damn it is to
swearing. And the expected situation on this chart:
http://weather.unisys.com/images/sat_sfc_map_loop.html
at these times is:

A standing Low Pressure area situated somewhat to the left of the
Great Lakes.
With a complex set of High pressure areas trying to break through from
the west.

However it isn't as cut and dried as all that. Consider:

http://meteonet.nl/aktueel/brackall.htm
And all the northern hemisphere seems covered in a double Low pattern
that is balanced by a double High situation that is a macrocosm of
what this type of spell should ordinarily be producing over the UK.

This spell and the next is normally one where two Highs and two Lows
are counterpoised around the UK with the centre of the effect being
known as a "col".

Usually the situation is speared by ridges or troughs from the
dominant air mass.

I am not sure (too inexperienced) to say how unusual this present
situation is but in lieu of a decent hurricane at lower latitudes, I
imagine this pattern is a decent substitute that explains the present
situation in Britain:
Flood Warnings.

Something similar on the Canadian-US border:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/wwa/
where winter weather watches are in effect. (Strong winds, snow and
ice.)

And no sign of things changing much on this:
http://weather.unisys.com/images/sat_sfc_map_loop.html

Which is tantamount to saying that with an East Siberian High, a North
Pacific Low and and Arctic Low in situ; no Highs on the US mainland
are going to find their way into the North Atlantic and.....
No severe earthquakes are going to trouble the Aleutians.

Or not, as the case may be.

On Jan 15, 7:48 am, Weatherlawyer wrote:

11:37 is as near to noon as 19:46 is to 18:00 as damn it is to swearing.

And the swearing being:
"What the hell was I thinking when I wrote that."

(Good job nobody reads my stuff.)

19:00 on this site we lose a significant High:

http://weather.unisys.com/images/sat_sfc_map_loop.html

And just for the purpose of making me look like an even bigger idiot:

2008/01/15
6.5 17:52 FIJI REGION

Well, at least they got the time down to something a little more like
it.