Re: Mt St Helens Activity

From: Michael Mcneil (weatherlawyer_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 09:16:49 +0000 (UTC)

"Tadapope" <tadapope@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20040925190352.15758.00001040@mb-m13.aol.com

> It's getting ready to blow again!

(I thought August was the Harvest Moon.) Here is an interesting run of
lunar spells. (If you are new to thaumaturgy, the time of the spell is
everything.)

While it erupted on the 18th May 1980 there was plenty of warning about
it for months in advance. I believe the tremours started some 2 or three
months prior. March wasn't it?

These are the times of the phases for that year:

2 Jan 09:02 Thundery

10 Jan 11:50 Windy and overcast

17 Jan 21:19 Humid and breezy

24 Jan 13:58 Fine

1 Feb 02:21 Unsettled with a spell half way between ho hum to thundery.
(Earthquakey weather if ever I saw one.)

9 Feb 07:35 Unsettled with a spell half way between wet to fine. Usually
bloody awful or there is trouble brewing.

16 Feb 08:51 Breezy & humid. Another bad one for the earth sciences.
 
(All after the fact of course but interesting in that this sort of
weather spell is not dissimilar to recent events.)

23 Feb 00:14 Windy and overcast

1 Mar 21:00 Here we go then. Thundery.

9 Mar 23:49 Similar to 23rd Feb, nothing to write home about.

16 Mar 18:56 Wet.

23 Mar 12:31 Unsettled with a spell half way between dull and overcast,
with a tendency to mist or light drizzle and wet.

I think the type of thing this produces is of the Levant variety. Those
readers with records of their own* may dismiss this as a load of tosh
but
when things don't occur as the code predicts then the system starts to
overload and we all know what that means, don't we children?

31 Mar 15:14 Humid and breezy. (These humid and breezy ones count as
thundery weather world wide by the way. And unsetled spells to boot.)

8 Apr 12:06 Cassic: dull and overcast, with a tendency to mist or light
drizzle

15 Apr 03 46 Unsettled with wind and rain in profusion.

22 Apr 02 59 Thundery.

30 Apr 07:35 9 Feb 07:35 Unsettled with a spell half way between wet to
fine. Usually bloody awful or there is trouble brewing.

7 May 20:51 1 Mar 21:00 Here we go then. Thundery.

14 May 12:00 8 Apr 12:06 Cassic: dull and overcast, with a tendency to
mist or light drizzle

21 May 19:16 Interesting repetition. So now you know what to look for.

*I gather the weather inthat part of the world is not too dissimilar to
the type I enjoy over here. What is important is the digression between
this folklore (new though it appears) and weather model runs. 

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