On Mar 17, 9:27 pm, Weatherlawyer wrote:
On Mar 17, 2:24 pm, Weatherlawyer wrote:



Here we go with a spate of ship, air and mining accidents:

Or not as the case now appears.

Nothing online about it but I heard it on the TV just now:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/default.stm

Looking around I see that the world prices for food are going to be
high this year. Australian stocks are down and Egyptians are already
queuing for bread.

I have no idea what the July - August harvest will be like in Britain.
Uncertain to say the least. I wonder what the harvest dates are for
the US and Canada.



* AP foreign
* , Wednesday March 19 2008

By BETSY TAYLOR

Associated Press Writer

PIEDMONT, Mo. (AP) - Flooding forced hundreds of people to flee their
homes and closed scores of roads Wednesday across the nation's
midsection as a storm system poured as much as a foot of rain on the
region. Nine deaths were linked to the weather and four people were
missing.

The National Weather Service posted flood and flash flood warnings
from Texas to Pennsylvania on Wednesday, and evacuations were under
way in parts of Missouri, Arkansas and Ohio.

Heavy rain began falling Monday and just kept coming. A foot of rain
had fallen at Mountain Home, Ark., and at Cape Girardeau in southeast
Missouri, where officials said street flooding marooned some residents
in their homes. The weather service said 6.2 inches had fallen at
Evansville, Ind.

Scott and Marilyne Peterson and their son, Scott Jr., scurried out of
their home near Piedmont after seeing water rise 3 feet in five
minutes. They had just enough time to grab essentials and their dog.

``You didn't have time to worry,'' Scott Peterson Sr. said. ``You just
grab what you can and go and you're glad the people are OK.''

The rain in Missouri was expected to finally end by late Wednesday as
the weather system crawled toward the northeast.

Four deaths were linked to the flooding in Missouri, and five people
were killed in a highway wreck in heavy rain in Kentucky. Searches
were under way in Texas for a teenager washed down a drainage pipe and
in Missouri for a man missing in a creek, and two people were missing
in Arkansas after their vehicles were swept away by rushing water.

An estimated 300 houses and businesses were flooded in Piedmont, a
town of 2,000 residents on McKenzie Creek. Dozens of people were
rescued by boat.

Outside St. Louis, the Meramec River was expected to crest 10 to 15
feet above flood stage at some spots, threatening towns like Eureka
and Valley Park, where residents were urged to evacuate. The Missouri
River was at or near flood stage through much of central and eastern
Missouri.

The James River was approaching record levels of more than 33 feet
above normal at the small Ozarks town of Galena west of Branson,
flooding a commercial strip and numerous homes near the town, Stone
County emergency management chief Tom Martin said. The canoeing and
fishing center of about 450 residents sits mainly on a hill above the
river.

Flooding was widespread in Arkansas, washing out some highways and
leading to evacuations of residents in parts of Baxter, Madison, Sharp
counties, said Tommy Jackson, a spokesman for the Arkansas Department
of Emergency Management. The Highway and Transportation Department
reported state roads blocked in 16 counties.

The Spring River in northeast Arkansas rose at a rate of 6 inches per
hour, carrying debris that included full-size trees.

Two motorists were missing in Arkansas after their vehicles were
washed away by high water, authorities said.

Authorities in southwest Missouri were searching for another man
reported swept away by rushing water. ``He was going down the creek
screaming and hollering,'' Lawrence County emergency management chief
Mike Rowe said.

Emergency officials in Mesquite, Texas, searched for a 14-year-old boy
apparently swept away as he and a friend played in a creek. The friend
swam to safety, authorities said.

Up the Ohio Valley, widespread flooding was reported in parts of
southwest Indiana and parts of Ohio, and schools were closed in parts
of western Kentucky because of flooded roads.

``We've got water rising everywhere,'' said Jeff Korb, president of
the Vanderbugh County, Ind., commissioners. ``We've got more than 70
roads under water.''

Residents of South Lebanon, Ohio - a town of about 2,800 people - were
urged to get out as the Little Miami River was expected to crest at 28
feet, 11 feet above flood stage and the third highest level since
measurements began in 1889, said Frank Young, emergency management
director in Warren County.

``That would put half of South Lebanon under water,'' Young said.

Key roads were closed in the Cincinnati area, where water 4 feet deep
was reported in businesses in the suburb of Sharonwille, police said.
Police contacted at least nine businesses and warned them not to open
Wednesday. Northeast of Cincinnati, two members of a cross-country
team had to be rescued from a rain-swollen creek after falling in.

The Ohio River at Cincinnati was expected to rise about 2 feet above
flood stage by Friday, enough to flood some neighborhoods outside the
city.

---

Associated Press writers Terry Kinney in Cincinnati; Paul Weber in
Dallas; Chuck Bartels in Little Rock, Ark.; Marcus Kabel in
Springfield; Jim Salter, Cheryl Wittenauer and Christopher Leonard in
St. Louis; and Chris Blank in Jefferson City contributed to this
report.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7397730

(I bet the chimp is on an early Easter weekend off. Probably started
last month.)

On Mar 20, 1:08 am, Weatherlawyer wrote:

There is an huge high pressure area stretching all the way across the
Pacific at the moment. I don't know how common such a phenomenon is
but if there is a record of one it would be damned easy to see how it
falls apart into a massive earthquake or whatever.
http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/data/analysis/947_50.gif

That's a warm ocean at the moment only 1/12th of a period required to
make it an El Nino event but it won't have stoke the figures.

This spell ends on the 21st which is around the time of the spring equinox..
Mar 21 18:40
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclips...se2001gmt.html

That's tomorrow. That Unisys chart will already be showing the first
stages of the event: http://weather.unisys.com/images/sat_sfc_map_loop.html

When the establishment are getting their sums right and I am in the
wrong, it is meteorological catastrophe

If they are wrong and I am too then it is more likely seismological.

If we are both right and there appears to an extensive or long lasting
spell, when it breaks it will be catastrophic.

There is a lot of consecutive stuff going on he
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/...uakes_all.html

And this is the Smithsonian volcano report for 12 to 18 March 2008:

New Activity/Unrest: | Batu Tara, Komba Island (Indonesia) | Garbuna
Group, New Britain (SW Pacific) | Karymsky, Eastern Kamchatka |
Kilauea, Hawaii (USA)

Ongoing Activity: | Anatahan, Mariana Islands (Central Pacific) |
Colima, México | Ol Doinyo Lengai, Tanzania | Popocatépetl, México |
Rabaul, New Britain (SW Pacific) | Shiveluch, Central Kamchatka
(Russia) | Soufrière Hills, Montserrat | Tungurahua, Ecuador | Ubinas,
Perú

http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports/us...rweek=20080312

Best I can do y'all. I tried to locate stories about rain or storms in
South America but there is nothing since 3 weeks ago:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt...39498120080222

So.

Nobody wants to pull apart old Weatherlawyer on this huh?

Can't say I blame anyone. Kind of reminds me of an early evangelist
who berated a judge for slapping him. He said that god would pay him
back 40 times then the judges having been proven impotent swore 40
murderers in a deadly oath that they wouldn't eat until the evangelist
was dead.

Nice one god!

So this spell is almost over and it appears I wasn't that far out with
my prognosis. And so many people had to suffer for want of a listening
ear.

Who is going to pay for their ferryman?

*******

What's done is done. Something interesting in the storm system that
swept the Atlantic in the last spell:

It stuck on the east of the Baltic through most of this one rather
than dissipate into the earthquake it should have. And now it is
deepening.
http://meteonet.nl/aktueel/brackall.htm

Meanwhile another Low of about the same pressure is heading for
Norway. Could these be the big crescendo to this series of spells?

On Mar 20, 7:45 pm, Weatherlawyer wrote:

Something interesting in the storm system that swept the Atlantic
in the last spell:

It stuck on the east of the Baltic through most of this one rather
than dissipate into the earthquake it should have. And now it is
deepening.http://meteonet.nl/aktueel/brackall.htm

Meanwhile another Low of about the same pressure is heading for
Norway. Could these be the big crescendo to this series of spells?

Couple that with the extensive High across the Pacific over the last
few days and the fact that none of the Atlantic Lows have behaved as
they should according to that remarkable thaumaturge Weatherlawyer...
....and the fact this spell is due to end tomorrow (and perhaps the
fact it is equinox will cap it all.)

And there just might be a devastating earthquake to bring things back
to normal. Of course a lot will depend on how far astray weather
models go over
the next few hours or days.

Pushing the boat out, an expert on traffic control over Heath Row
Airport stated on the news that safety margins are being routinely
breached because of the heavy traffic into London.

It would be an astute move to avoid all airports at peak times this
holiday -being by way of an ultimatum to zen a phrase. Heathrow in
particular.

On Mar 20, 10:36 pm, Weatherlawyer wrote:
On Mar 20, 7:45 pm, Weatherlawyer wrote:



Something interesting in the storm system that swept the Atlantic
in the last spell:

It stuck on the east of the Baltic through most of this one rather
than dissipate into the earthquake it should have. And now it is
deepening.http://meteonet.nl/aktueel/brackall.htm

Meanwhile another Low of about the same pressure is heading for
Norway. Could these be the big crescendo to this series of spells?

Couple that with the extensive High across the Pacific over the last
few days and the fact that none of the Atlantic Lows have behaved as
they should according to that remarkable thaumaturge Weatherlawyer...
...and the fact this spell is due to end tomorrow (and perhaps the
fact it is equinox will cap it all.)

And there just might be a devastating earthquake to bring things back
to normal. Of course a lot will depend on how far astray weather
models go over
the next few hours or days.

Pushing the boat out, an expert on traffic control over Heath Row
Airport stated on the news that safety margins are being routinely
breached because of the heavy traffic into London.

It would be an astute move to avoid all airports at peak times this
holiday -being by way of an ultimatum to zen a phrase. Heathrow in
particular.

Or maybe Hotan China:

7.2 M. 2008/03/20 22:33 XINJIANG-XIZANG BORDER REGION

On Mar 20, 11:32 pm, Weatherlawyer wrote:

It would be an astute move to avoid all airports at peak times this
holiday -being by way of an ultimatum to zen a phrase. Heathrow in
particular.

Or maybe Hotan China:

7.2 M. 2008/03/20 22:33 XINJIANG-XIZANG BORDER REGION

And here we go with the tropicals:
http://205.85.40.22/jtwc/warnings/sh2408.gif

Cue the next spell please.

On Mar 20, 10:36 pm, Weatherlawyer wrote:
On Mar 20, 7:45 pm, Weatherlawyer wrote:



Something interesting in the storm system that swept the Atlantic
in the last spell:

It stuck on the east of the Baltic through most of this one rather
than dissipate into the earthquake it should have. And now it is
deepening.http://meteonet.nl/aktueel/brackall.htm

Meanwhile another Low of about the same pressure is heading for
Norway. Could these be the big crescendo to this series of spells?

Couple that with the extensive High across the Pacific over the last
few days and the fact that none of the Atlantic Lows have behaved as
they should according to that remarkable thaumaturge Weatherlawyer...
...and the fact this spell is due to end tomorrow (and perhaps the
fact it is equinox will cap it all.)

And there just might be a devastating earthquake to bring things back
to normal. Of course a lot will depend on how far astray weather
models go over
the next few hours or days.

Pushing the boat out, an expert on traffic control over Heath Row
Airport stated on the news that safety margins are being routinely
breached because of the heavy traffic into London.

It would be an astute move to avoid all airports at peak times this
holiday -being by way of an ultimatum to zen a phrase. Heathrow in
particular.

I was looking at this site for another thread and lost track of why in
my urge to get an html readable version. Adobe seems to have fixed the
ability of Firefox to copy text from a pdf and Firefox wants paying
for me to use their code breaker.

And I have a scanner and a printer I'd rather set up to do things the
hard way than pay either. But I can't be bothered since the pdf is
reasonably readable.

And I doubt very much the authors intended to keep their effort secret
or why publish it in the first place.

I blame Universities needing to spend wastes of money on software that
can be had for free or just use the old stuff. Why the hell did they
need the latest version of Adobe?

They just have to have it because they aren't paying for it and it is
available most likely. Stupid *******s!

/rant

Anyway, the picture along with the text on page 15 shows what might
have happened to those people killed and otherwise variously ruined in
the US over the last spell and going into this one.

I have written about above cloud lighning storms and their place in my
forecasts along side mega-quakes and super-cyclones. So I can't blame
anyone but me for not getting it in time to make a warning. even
though no one would have seen it and if any one had seen it, made any
effort to do something about it.

(Shoot a monkey for example.)

Anyway. There you go. I doubt I would have seen the article in time to
point anyone to it if it had been more readily available. Maybe next
time.

I always had an inkling that spells that should be Highs tended not to
produce tropical storms. So now I know what to look for when things go
wrong with them.

One I told you so: I did say.... ah well, never mind. You can read for
yourself what I wrote and any conclusions about what they are worth
you can come to on your own.

Or not, as is most likely.

Fools!