8th Jan @ 11:37

15th Jan @ 19:46

22nd Jan @ 13:35

30th Jan @ 05:03

7th Feb @ 03:44

14th Feb @ 03:34

21st Feb @ 03:31

29th Feb @ 02:18

7th Mar @ 17:14

14th Mar @ 10:46

21st Mar @ 18:40

29th Mar @ 21:47

6th Apr @ 03:55

12th Apr @ 18:32

20th Apr @ 10:25

28th Apr @ 14:12

5th May @ 12:18

12th May @ 03:47

20th May @ 02:11

28th May @ 02:57

3rd Jun @ 19:23

10th Jun @ 15:04

18th Jun @ 17:30

26th Jun @ 12:10

3rd Jul @ 02:19

18th Jul @ 07:59

8th Aug @ 20:20

7th Sep @ 14:04

29th Sep @ 08:12

14th Oct @ 20:03

Last one of a major run of similar spells this week sees the return of
forest fires in California and a variety of similar recent repasts.

Santa Annas anyone not too busy lolling on the floor licking their
gentiles?

On Oct 15, 3:08*am, Weatherlawyer wrote:

15th Jan @ 19:46

22nd Jan @ 13:35

29th Feb @ 02:18

28th Apr @ 14:12

20th May @ 02:11

3rd Jun @ 19:23

3rd Jul @ 02:19

18th Jul @ 07:59

8th Aug @ 20:20

7th Sep @ 14:04

29th Sep @ 08:12

14th Oct @ 20:03

Last one of a major run of similar spells this week sees the return of
forest fires in California and a variety of similar recent repasts.

Dust Storm off Iceland

On September 17, 2008, NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of a
dust storm blowing off the northern coast of Iceland:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/New...3?img_id=18174

The source points for the storm appear immediately north of the
massive Vatnajökull Glacier.

According to reports from the Danish Meteorological Agency, the winds
were linked to a strong low-pressure system located to the west of
Iceland in the Denmark Strait off the south-east coast of Greenland.
The storm harboured the remnants of Hurricane Ike.

In the Northern Hemisphere, winds spiral inward in a counter-clockwise
direction.

Since the remnants of Hurricane Ike were west of Iceland near the time
of this image, strong winds were sweeping in from the south, picking
up the loess, and whisking it northward.

This graphic from the Danish Meteorological Agency shows the location
of the low-pressure area:
http://www.dmi.dk/dmi/orkanen_ike_naar_island_onsdag

While stirring up this dust, the storm bearing the remnants of Ike was
producing gale force winds in south-eastern Greenland and churning up
9-meter (29.5-foot) swells in Denmark Strait.

According to the Danish Meteorological Agency, remnants of hurricanes
and tropical storms only reach Iceland every two to four years.

When Ike came ashore over the Gulf Coast of the United States, much of
the moisture and energy of the storm were swept up by a weather system
heading north-eastward across the country. That system crossed the
North Atlantic, bringing high winds, dangerous surf, and heavy rains
to Greenland and Iceland.

*******

Or to put it another way, the spell of weather responsible for
Hurricane Ike lead to developments in the northern North Atlantic that
provided a wind phenomenon that is common in southern California but
relatively unknown in Iceland.

The sequence occurs there every two to 4 years. I don't know what sort
of average that is the average of the average, though, is once every
three years.

There are 12 spells this year with the same time of phase -in a manner
of speaking, as the one running at the time the storm was running over
Iceland.

But Ike started off Cape Verde towards the end of August 2008 and was
most intense around the 3rd of September. It hit Cuba as a Cat 3
(killing 7 people) on the 7th.

On the 10th the Chimp (a week late and a fortune short (as usual))
declared Texas an emergency area. Ike went ashore there on the 11th
and killed nearly 100 people not counting the over 200 missing.

All of which occurred in spells excluding the type we are enjoying at
present.

*******

As a corollary however it aught to be stated that when it comes to a
stand off between a country widely thought of (until this century) as
the richest one in the world (and still is, to many uneducated
citizens of that country) and a country whose subsistence economy has
been impacted by 50 years of aggressive subversion from that larger
country...

....it is generally best to live in a socialist democracy whose sole
ruler is a 70 or 80 year old man with terminal cancer than to live in
an oilicrazy whose soul owner is a muppet that has never done anything
right... never, since the day they mistook the baby for the the
afterbirth.

I have to hand it to Hollywood. I wouldn't in a billion years have
ever dreamed of replacing Ronald Reagan with his co-star. A work of
brilliance that has given the world Oscar winning entertainment -worth
every drop of Arabian bloodshed.

Oh, hang on... there is going to be decades of come-back on Britain
for that too isn't there... Centuries maybe?

Ah well, apart from all those women raped and children killed he's put
on an excellent performance.

I have an idea that in phases such as this, luni-solar declinations
notwithstanding (or do I mean withstanding?) a North Atlantic Low
reaching Norway above the Arctic Circle (Vestfiorden say) there's a
chance it could be linked with Philippine earthquakes.

Further south, (North and South Utsire say) the relationship with
earthquakes might be with those in Japan.

On Oct 16, 10:16*pm, Weatherlawyer wrote:
I have an idea that in phases such as this, luni-solar declinations
notwithstanding (or do I mean withstanding?) a North Atlantic Low
reaching Norway above the Arctic Circle (Vestfiorden say) there's a
chance it could be linked with Philippine earthquakes.

Further south, (North and South Utsire say) the relationship with
earthquakes might be with those in Japan.

Not quite. Southern North America. The Isthmus of Panama. But at least
I got a 974 going where I want it.

That Mexican quake brought us relief from the wet weather for a day or
so. Might this be true of the forest fires in California?

Or have they reached the sea and have no farther to go? In which case
perhaps the Santa Anas have a role to play in forecasting events
farther afield. Maybe even to step into the realms of tornado
research?

I have been most remiss and failed to report a crick in my neck same
degree of pain and exactly the same place as last time.

If only I could remember what happened next.

Maybe I should look it up but I think I failed to report in last time
too neither.

On Oct 18, 4:24*pm, Weatherlawyer wrote:
I have been most remiss and failed to report a crick in my neck same
degree of pain and exactly the same place as last time.

If only I could remember what happened next.

Maybe I should look it up but I think I failed to report in last time
too neither:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.t...&q=crick+neck#

Reunion:
http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports/us...nt=maps#indian
And something in keeping with all the small Virgin Islands quakes
maybe Montserrat:
http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports/us...ent=maps#monty

Man this crick is a biatche'. Aspirin is too slow and my stronger
tablets too tempting. I wish I had a freezer, some frozen carrots or
something on it now would be nice.

I am convinced it is a rhinitis type virus that is best treated with
good posture, cooling and rest/mild exercise.

But I'd settle for a couple of beers.