Jan 22nd and the Full Moon is doing what full moons do when the time
of the phase is at: 13:35.
http://weather.unisys.com/images/sat_sfc_map_loop.html

A band of cloud running from Mexico to Canada, crossing the USA in the
process:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.t...ccbe3a9e0a4aa#

It's nice when I'm on the ball. Muchos kudos to all concerned, not
least among them Fred Espenak:
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclips...se2001gmt.html

On Jan 22, 1:12 pm, Weatherlawyer wrote:
Full Moon . . . . at: 13:35.

A band of cloud running from Mexico to Canada.

It's nice when I'm on the ball.

On the ball? What do you mean? On the ball about posting data from
an astronomical ephemeris calculated by someone else? On the ball in
posting the location of some clouds? Why is that nice? Did you
forget to include some conclusion that we should all draw from these
two, seemingly, unrelated factoids?

mirage

On Jan 23, 5:31 am, mirage wrote:
On Jan 22, 1:12 pm, Weatherlawyer wrote:

Full Moon . . . . at: 13:35.

A band of cloud running from Mexico to Canada.

It's nice when I'm on the ball.

On the ball? What do you mean? On the ball about posting data from
an astronomical ephemeris calculated by someone else? On the ball in
posting the location of some clouds? Why is that nice? Did you
forget to include some conclusion that we should all draw from these
two, seemingly, unrelated factoids?

Yes.

And no.

I didn't forget. I just read my previous stuff. I suggest you make
more effort.

On Jan 23, 10:06 am, Weatherlawyer wrote:
On Jan 23, 5:31 am, mirage wrote:

On Jan 22, 1:12 pm, Weatherlawyer wrote:

Full Moon . . . . at: 13:35.

A band of cloud running from Mexico to Canada.

It's nice when I'm on the ball.

On the ball? What do you mean? On the ball about posting data from
an astronomical ephemeris calculated by someone else? On the ball in
posting the location of some clouds? Why is that nice? Did you
forget to include some conclusion that we should all draw from these
two, seemingly, unrelated factoids?

Yes.

And no.

I didn't forget. I just read my previous stuff. I suggest you make
more effort.

Just in case anyone else should feel dispirited by my recalcitrance
here is some alleviation so that you have less than nothing to do:

On Jan 22, 3:17 am, Weatherlawyer wrote:
On Jan 20, 1:53 am, Weatherlawyer wrote:

On Jan 19, 11:35 am, Weatherlawyer wrote:

On Jan 19, 3:32 am, Weatherlawyer wrote:

Looks like we are in for a sequence of Mag 6 quakes:
http://weather.unisys.com/images/sat_sfc_map_loop.html

Hey dude, where's my seismicity?

In decades to come people will be mulling this break in things as
another one of life's gems.

McNeil's Maxim:

When the largest magnitude that breaks a spell is of less than 7 M,
there will tend to be a supercyclone and the quakes following on from
it will tend to be in the region of 5 to 5.5 mag.

And now the storm is abating. Heading for New Zealand, so perhaps a
large one for Macquarie Island or somewhere down there?

We had a nice day or so here while it lasted. So, by and large, I
can't complain. So back to the wet weather I suppose?

Back to normal here with the floods and what not.

Looks like this is where |i came in with this site, too:

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

We aught to see a strong line of cloud flowing through the US from
southern California to the NE corner.

But that's for later this afternoon and after, with the new spell.

*******

Which seismicity was being reported, meanwhile, as a series of quakes
in the mid to high five range. Then all of a sudden they were
upgraded:


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On Jan 22, 9:40 am, Weatherlawyer wrote:

And finally as the rivers flood and frosts take over from rain, I
thought I had best mention the Channel coast that is awash with timber
following a ship wreck near Worthing.

An interesting kick in the diabolicals:

5.5 2008/01/22 18:43 WESTERN XIZANG
6.1 2008/01/22 17:14 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
6.1 2008/01/22 10:49 TONGA
5.1 2008/01/22 09:09 TARAPACA, CHILE
6.0 2008/01/22 07:55 TONGA
5.8 2008/01/21 12:24 SOUTHERN EAST PACIFIC RISE
5.2 2008/01/21 02:49 COMOROS REGION
6.1 2008/01/20 20:26 MOLUCCA SEA

It's been a red letter day in seimographland as well as Wall and
Threadneedle Streets. And all because the arseholes in charge of the
economy wanted to flood the market with junk mortgages.

I hate to think of the burden the federal reserves have to take on
board to float not only the USA but Europe, China and Japan...

Whilst waging a pointless war in two countries that can't lose.

Who is this obscuring wisdom?
He who is overturning the inhabited world and shaking out its good
things.

Here's to interesting times.

*******

Now do try to keep up, you in the back there!

Hardly any rain in Britain since this spell started. Look out for at
least one major earthquake as the series ends.

On Jan 23, 9:46 am, Weatherlawyer wrote:
Hardly any rain in Britain since this spell started. Look out for at
least one major earthquake as the series ends.

I know you enjoy the vagaries of language, but since the goal of most
language is communication, I'm really curious about what you mean
'series'? Do you mean a series of lunar phases from, perhaps, full
moon to full moon? Do you mean a series of storms, where each is
separated from the previous by less than a certain time period, like a
day? Or do you simply just string words together in interesting ways
as a form of self-entertainment with no underlying intention to
elucidate or educate?

mirage

On Jan 23, 6:57 pm, mirage wrote:
On Jan 23, 9:46 am, Weatherlawyer wrote:

Hardly any rain in Britain since this spell started. Look out for at
least one major earthquake as the series ends.

I know you enjoy the vagaries of language, but since the goal of most
language is communication, I'm really curious about what you mean
'series'? Do you mean a series of lunar phases from, perhaps, full
moon to full moon? Do you mean a series of storms, where each is
separated from the previous by less than a certain time period, like a
day? Or do you simply just string words together in interesting ways
as a form of self-entertainment with no underlying intention to
elucidate or educate?

This was sequence of events from the end of November. A series of
lunar phases that were broadly similar.

They all held a degree of difficulty for me as they are or were all
quite unstable spells.

As it turns out they were more of a stable variety than I was alluding
to in that they induced between them a series of singularities most
noticeably, blocking highs.

I did forecast they were a series early on but as usual I can't find
the damned post.

You will just have to plough through the lot of them if you want to
study the technique.

These are they, starting with one that should have produced an
anticyclonic spell over the UK going on to one that is only an half
hour different in its induced harmonic.

Nov 9 23:03 Fine
Nov 17 22:32 Unstable
Nov 24 14:30 Unstable
Dec 1 12:44 Unstable
Dec 9 17:40 Unstable
Dec 17 10:17 Unstable
Dec 24 01:16 Unstable
Dec 31 07:51 Unstable
Jan 8 11:37 Unstable
Jan 15 19:46 Unstable
Jan 22 13:35 Unstable
Jan 30 05:03 Fine.

It is customary for such a long series to run through the following
phase whatever its time. So that the last one here too may be a spell
similar to the above.

But in this case it would appear not as this spell from the 22nd isn't
as wet as it should be. However it is still early days yet.

Broadly speaking a time of phase at 11 or 5 o'clock am or pm induces
fine weather and one at 7 or 1 o'clock induces wet.

Spels at 20 past or 20 to the hour are always a bloody nuisance for
some reason and it all goes to cock when a supert-yphoon or as in one
instance a very powerful storm in the northern latitudes takes place.

The sequence has roughly the same effect as the building of an
earthquake has.

So far as I am able to ascertain, a Mag 6 quake is the equivalent of a
normal hurricane. A Mag 7 to an SF 2 or 3, a Mag 8 to an SF 4 and I
suppose a Mag 9 quake would equal an SF 5.

I don't really have much experience with all that as I have only
recently put the coincidentae together. And of course such events are
rather scarce.

It would help if past data was properly archived but the sites hosting
storm values are not what they might be. Hence I find it easier to
work through them as they happen.

I am not able to discern a great deal of difference from what the
weather should be doing to what it is doing during an SF 1 event but
an SF 3 or 4 can knock the clock back by 3 or 4 hours.

As for the lunar phases per se, I have never been able to see a
significant difference in the percentage of visibility. 0 or 100%
looks the same as either of the 50%s. (I am of course sufficiently
familiar with the changes of the phases so as to be able to tell the
time from them.)

On Jan 23, 1:09 pm, Weatherlawyer wrote:
On Jan 23, 6:57 pm, mirage wrote:

On Jan 23, 9:46 am, Weatherlawyer wrote:

Hardly any rain in Britain since this spell started. Look out for at
least one major earthquake as the series ends.

I know you enjoy the vagaries of language, but since the goal of most
language is communication, I'm really curious about what you mean
'series'? Do you mean a series of lunar phases from, perhaps, full
moon to full moon? Do you mean a series of storms, where each is
separated from the previous by less than a certain time period, like a
day? Or do you simply just string words together in interesting ways
as a form of self-entertainment with no underlying intention to
elucidate or educate?

This was sequence of events from the end of November. A series of
lunar phases that were broadly similar.

They all held a degree of difficulty for me as they are or were all
quite unstable spells.

As it turns out they were more of a stable variety than I was alluding
to in that they induced between them a series of singularities most
noticeably, blocking highs.

I did forecast they were a series early on but as usual I can't find
the damned post.

You will just have to plough through the lot of them if you want to
study the technique.

These are they, starting with one that should have produced an
anticyclonic spell over the UK going on to one that is only an half
hour different in its induced harmonic.

Nov 9 23:03 Fine
Nov 17 22:32 Unstable
Nov 24 14:30 Unstable
Dec 1 12:44 Unstable
Dec 9 17:40 Unstable
Dec 17 10:17 Unstable
Dec 24 01:16 Unstable
Dec 31 07:51 Unstable
Jan 8 11:37 Unstable
Jan 15 19:46 Unstable
Jan 22 13:35 Unstable
Jan 30 05:03 Fine.

It is customary for such a long series to run through the following
phase whatever its time. So that the last one here too may be a spell
similar to the above.

But in this case it would appear not as this spell from the 22nd isn't
as wet as it should be. However it is still early days yet.

Broadly speaking a time of phase at 11 or 5 o'clock am or pm induces
fine weather and one at 7 or 1 o'clock induces wet.

Spels at 20 past or 20 to the hour are always a bloody nuisance for
some reason and it all goes to cock when a supert-yphoon or as in one
instance a very powerful storm in the northern latitudes takes place.

The sequence has roughly the same effect as the building of an
earthquake has.

So far as I am able to ascertain, a Mag 6 quake is the equivalent of a
normal hurricane. A Mag 7 to an SF 2 or 3, a Mag 8 to an SF 4 and I
suppose a Mag 9 quake would equal an SF 5.

I don't really have much experience with all that as I have only
recently put the coincidentae together. And of course such events are
rather scarce.

It would help if past data was properly archived but the sites hosting
storm values are not what they might be. Hence I find it easier to
work through them as they happen.

I am not able to discern a great deal of difference from what the
weather should be doing to what it is doing during an SF 1 event but
an SF 3 or 4 can knock the clock back by 3 or 4 hours.

As for the lunar phases per se, I have never been able to see a
significant difference in the percentage of visibility. 0 or 100%
looks the same as either of the 50%s. (I am of course sufficiently
familiar with the changes of the phases so as to be able to tell the
time from them.)

I asked, and I received. Thank you. This really is fascinating,
isn't it?

--mirage

On Jan 23, 9:40 pm, mirage wrote:
On Jan 23, 1:09 pm, Weatherlawyer wrote:



On Jan 23, 6:57 pm, mirage wrote:

On Jan 23, 9:46 am, Weatherlawyer wrote:

Hardly any rain in Britain since this spell started. Look out for at
least one major earthquake as the series ends.

I know you enjoy the vagaries of language, but since the goal of most
language is communication, I'm really curious about what you mean
'series'? Do you mean a series of lunar phases from, perhaps, full
moon to full moon? Do you mean a series of storms, where each is
separated from the previous by less than a certain time period, like a
day? Or do you simply just string words together in interesting ways
as a form of self-entertainment with no underlying intention to
elucidate or educate?

This was sequence of events from the end of November. A series of
lunar phases that were broadly similar.

They all held a degree of difficulty for me as they are or were all
quite unstable spells.

As it turns out they were more of a stable variety than I was alluding
to in that they induced between them a series of singularities most
noticeably, blocking highs.

I did forecast they were a series early on but as usual I can't find
the damned post.

You will just have to plough through the lot of them if you want to
study the technique.

These are they, starting with one that should have produced an
anticyclonic spell over the UK going on to one that is only an half
hour different in its induced harmonic.

Nov 9 23:03 Fine
Nov 17 22:32 Unstable
Nov 24 14:30 Unstable
Dec 1 12:44 Unstable
Dec 9 17:40 Unstable
Dec 17 10:17 Unstable
Dec 24 01:16 Unstable
Dec 31 07:51 Unstable
Jan 8 11:37 Unstable
Jan 15 19:46 Unstable
Jan 22 13:35 Unstable
Jan 30 05:03 Fine.

It is customary for such a long series to run through the following
phase whatever its time. So that the last one here too may be a spell
similar to the above.

But in this case it would appear not as this spell from the 22nd isn't
as wet as it should be. However it is still early days yet.

Broadly speaking a time of phase at 11 or 5 o'clock am or pm induces
fine weather and one at 7 or 1 o'clock induces wet.

Spels at 20 past or 20 to the hour are always a bloody nuisance for
some reason and it all goes to cock when a supert-yphoon or as in one
instance a very powerful storm in the northern latitudes takes place.

The sequence has roughly the same effect as the building of an
earthquake has.

So far as I am able to ascertain, a Mag 6 quake is the equivalent of a
normal hurricane. A Mag 7 to an SF 2 or 3, a Mag 8 to an SF 4 and I
suppose a Mag 9 quake would equal an SF 5.

I don't really have much experience with all that as I have only
recently put the coincidentae together. And of course such events are
rather scarce.

It would help if past data was properly archived but the sites hosting
storm values are not what they might be. Hence I find it easier to
work through them as they happen.

I am not able to discern a great deal of difference from what the
weather should be doing to what it is doing during an SF 1 event but
an SF 3 or 4 can knock the clock back by 3 or 4 hours.

As for the lunar phases per se, I have never been able to see a
significant difference in the

effect produced by the

percentage of visibility. 0 or 100%
looks the same as either of the 50%s. (I am of course sufficiently
familiar with the changes of the phases so as to be able to tell the
time from them.)

Or was
I can't remember when I last spent an evening walking under a moon
looking for signs.

I asked, and I received. Thank you. This really is fascinating,
isn't it?

Yes.

Have you noticed my other posts about the relationship with Highs over
the USA?

They seem to work in exactly the same way as Lows over the North
Atlantic.

I used to say that when an occluded front held off out over the North
Atlantic (usually over the Mid Atlantic Ridge) when it finally broke,
there would be a large earthquake.

Well the USA thing is similar but the anti-type for it.
Whereas the Low is at sea and broached over the European continental
shelf; the High is on land and leaves the continental shelf.

I would like to see an explanation for that.

I am a little ****ed off at the moment, having tried to collate all
the tropical cyclone data from:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...ification.html

and put it into Open Office; Cack.

Someone on their forums told me how to get it to post "as is" by
hitting Paste Special Unformatted Text then choosing "text"
instead of Standard in the bottom selection box that opens.

I had about 4 years worth down when I noticed that some of the stuff
had been formatted the way that the coders who wrote Cack wanted it to
be pasted instead of it pasting the way I wanted it to be pasted.

The moral of the story is if you want a decent office suite, you have
to pay for the damned thing.

The stupid *******s don't seem to have heard of the saying WYSIWYG.
Morons!

On Jan 23, 5:46 pm, Weatherlawyer wrote:

Hardly any rain in Britain since this spell started. Look out for at
least one major earthquake as the series ends.

Lovely day here. Complete opposite of what it should be, blue skies
well maybe some thin ice up aloft but you get the idea.

Gonna be a big one. I wonder what that High over the mid western
United States is going to do when that happens.

OK let's assume this is not a blip.
The spell has been knocked back what?
3 1/2 hours.

That's the equivalent of a SF 3 or 4 tropical cyclone. So that's a Mag
7.5 or maybe more. You can't get a wetter spell than this one and you
can't get a finer one than for 17:00.

All supposition at the moment but interesting.