Whilst I was waiting for this event to not happen, Super Typhoon Neoguri 03-10 July, Super Typhoon Rammasun 12-19 July and Typhoon Matmo 17-23 July, had been waving at me. It took me until midnight last night (Sunday the 27th July 2014) to realise what they were trying to say.
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I set the animation at 0.6 seconds, thinking to get it out of the way quickly. I am sorry it is so annoying, I never checked it out.
Some time near the start of this weather spell (19 July 2014. 02:08. A tornadic spell.) I wrote that a significant earthquake was due:
“Obviously there is a cessation in energy going into the tropical storm department of Planetary Resources. Shunted elsewhere… …and next?
Incidents of tornadoes and of volcanic eruptions have been low. Several more mag sixes are on the way according to the NA EFS but nothing major until the 28th when a set of Highs is involved.”
What I had seen was a forecast for a Blocking High in the North Atlantic on the weather charts from the Meteorological Office (as was.)
I collect something like 80 charts on days like these, mostly sea level pressure forecasts from around the world. The bulk of them are from the model runs at BoM, the North America EFS and this one from Climategate Central:
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When I see an abrupt change in the weather, an anomaly, I imagine that something elsewhere is also changing and have developed that idea into a complex study of geomancy.
I assumed, as normally happens when a complex of cyclones abruptly changes to one of anticyclones, that a large earthquake occurs. However I was beset with a variety of conflicting signals.
This was the only run that indicated a large quake, per se. There was stuff looking likely on other charts but things were not as clear as they might have been. As you can see in the animation, the High doesn’t impose itself strongly. (Nor does it last for long.)
Meanwhile in the real world we have been having exceptionally warm weather in Britain. All happening whilst both tornadoes and volcanic activity died down. So something odd is happening. Obviously the timing is off somewhat though.
A large earthquake usually presents a strong signal in the southern hemisphere. Unfortunately, the system down there has got out of hand with a very strong positive cycle in the Antarctic Oscillation. (AAO.) Something I have no experience with. So I am not certain what’s what with the runs from BoM (Australia’s Met Office.)
Ordinarily the cyclones hold close to the central continent in these charts. But this winter the ice has formed early and grown quite widespread allowing the cyclones to spread out to the surrounding continents as far as the subtropics.
When the isobars are as compressed as they are in the first few charts, they cling to the coastline and disperse when an earthquake occurs.
Sometimes they bounce off or break down into their component cyclones and continue to roll around Antarctica. When that happens it is a signal for some other serious event such as tornado cells or phreatic eruptions.
It all starts with the blue or green ribbons coming out to the subtropical regions of the surrounding continents and from Polynesia (not on these charts.) This is water leaving America or Africa. That dark blue line (bottom left) is rain leaving South America at the River Plate. It is running south-east, between the Hadley cell and the cyclones in the Atlantic.
It will dominate the cyclonic system it merges with, turning the centre black with compressed isobars.
But as I said the AAO has forced the doldrums and subtropical anticyclones almost out of the picture.
The knock on effect is that the anticyclones move further north than they normally do in our summer.
I imagine the design is for the improvements engineered, by our creator’s gardeners, in desert areas. So that places like central Australia and the southern half of South America get watered
Hasn’t happened yet of course but on the sixth day god rested. So we had the last 6000 years off to kill each other.
But I digress.
The precipitate from the River Plate will dominate the cyclonic system it merges with, turning the centre black with compressed isobars.
Except that it didn’t.
A line of smaller stuff came out of it. Or is coming out of it at the time of writing. (These are forecasts, remember.)
Large earthquakes take place when a significant amount of compression occurs in the isobars between Highs and Lows.
According to Meteorology these Highs and Lows ought to blow each other out. Sounds more like Climatology to me.
But at the same time when the contours are nicely rounded off, there is a greater chance of a super-cyclone in the tropics.
A large quake occurs when the rain goes directly to Antarctica in an almost due south direction.
This stuff has skirted the outside of the ice all the way to Australia before getting lost in the matrix. That is crossing something like 120 degrees of longitude.
I like that number. 1/3rd of a planet. The Shadow Zone. (Actually it is more like 180 degrees from South America to Australia but let’s not be pedantic.)
In the Great Australian Bight it bounces off the acoustics then flows onto the Ross Ice Shelf. But this is not about that stream nor that forecast.
When a large quake gathers, three of those large dark masses have to hit the coast of Antarctica simultaneously. This almost happened in the first charts of this run. Which is about all that I wanted to show in this thread.
I will leave the rest of these on here for you to see in more detail what was going on in the animation above.
The problem with using this stuff to forecast earthquakes is the mind set of this generation. Having grown up as masters of the universe, the sheeple that advocate the subduction/obduction routines are stuck playing the hand they have been given by a previous generation that knew no better.
Knowing no better they can’t think outside that box. But earthquakes are not subject to their hypotheses. Can you imagine how stupid they are going look to a future generation?
Like we assume people from the dark ages to be: Simple minded dirty bigots. Were people really like that?
People were not just people …that happened to live in the dark ages?
Skinned and abused like lost sheep?
Just like they are today if you pay any attention to the news.
The signals for earthquakes on weather charts are quite plain. You should be looking for anomalies. The one of interest is retrograde motion, especially of cyclones but anticyclones do it too but they are much rarer in northern waters, exponentially so for their anomalous retrograde sequences.
This is the complete run of the 19 to 25 July spell over the North Pacific:
The North Atlantic is very similar but there is an interesting time difference worthy of a thread on its own but since the signal we are looking for appears on neither, I am not going to post the Atlantic run here.
The following is the North American EFS forecasts from the 19th of July 2014:
There is a signal for either a large earthquake or a spate of volcanic eruptions on the 28/29th.
Volcanoes erupt all the time. I am not sure of the exact figure but I believe there are about 60 active at any one time (for an objective description of “active” that is.)
On the NA EFS charts phreatic eruptions that give a VEI warning of 1 or 2 (or more) are signalled with the exact same behaviour as large earthquakes, except that the signal goes on much longer.
In this case the anomaly -such as it is, is a row of adjacent anticyclones in a line. They have to touch one another and for a flat out event, no quibbles, they have to be sharply defined systems. The one on the 28th is not one of them.
A large earthquake only shows the signal for a day, large eruptions keep the signal going for quite some time. As you can see there is some sort signal visible on the following day. There was enough for me to say that a large quake was likely.
Unfortunately the signal evaporated, disappeared into the air it was made of in all subsequent forecasts. So what was going on at the start of the spell in the above Australian charts?
They are composed almost entirely from satellite data so there is no human rectifying them, removing all the butterflies. What you see is what you get, either as weather or as some other thaumagic event. Yet not only was there nothing all that large in the mix but it was virtually bereft of tornadoes and volcanism as well.
As it happens, the third factor is the components for a large earthquake failed to hit the shore at the same time as the first two. And we did have some magnitude 6 ‘quakes. There had been a dearth of those for some time.
By the way, they are also signalled in the NA EFS as a sequence of Highs and Lows in alignment. So at least you came away with something from your effort to stick with this thread to the bitter end.
One final warning before I close it:
When a period of unusual weather occurs, one that brings reports of flood or fire, then when the spell breaks, there will be a large magnitude earthquake. One thing that inevitably happens with a quake is that the weather changes from hot to cold/dry to wet or visa versa. They are weather changers.
In Britain just before a quake it gets hot. With a VEI of 1 or more it gets cold. For a 3 or 4 we might even get a flurry of snow in summer. YMMV.
Thanks to NOAA and the SSEC in Wisconsin for the charts.
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