Re: Mt St Helens Activity

From: Bob Officer (bobofficers_at_invalid.net)
Date: 09/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 11:54:54 -0700

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 10:22:28 GMT, in sci.geo.earthquakes, "Bob Harrington"
<rch.NOS-PAM@blarg.net> wrote:

>Michael Mcneil wrote:
>> "Tadapope" <tadapope@aol.com> wrote in message
>> news:20040925190352.15758.00001040@mb-m13.aol.com
>>
>>> It's getting ready to blow again!
>
>All the folks what know here say that it's just a bit of very shallow
>rock cracking and minor steam explosions from recent weeks of excess
>rain in the region percolating down into the dome and surrounds.
>
>> (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.)
>
>Pretty sure September is the Harvest Moon.

Doesn't that depend on the region? Southern latitudes have a longer growing
period. While the Far north often has killing frosts far short of standard
crops 75-90 day growing period?

>> 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?
>
>First earthquake was on March 20; first steam explosion that brought old
>ash to the surface was on March 27.

McNut often gets his history wrong, but will never admit being wrong or
being corrected.

>> These are the times of the phases for that year:
>>
>> 2 Jan 09:02 Thundery
>
>Thunder is pretty rare in western Washington in January.

McNut thinks his local weather determines or is an indicator of seismic
events world wide. Only a truly ignorant person would think a local thunder
storm, would cause or indicate an impending seismic event would take place
a some distant location.

Then he couples into the his fantasy the lunar phases as observed at his
own location, and makes illogical guesses about world events, both
weather-wise and seismic events, world wide.

He is wrong so often it is pathetic.

>> 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.)
>
>'cept we still don't get much thunder...

Whatever, this is McNut, who is McWrong.

>> 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.
>
>Okay. Now we're getting to the time of year when we get a few
>one-bang-wonders in the unstable air behind a Pacific cold front.

Hey sometimes we get Mid to late fall thunderstorms here. Those are the
left over from a tropical storm that travels up the coast rather than into
the desert.

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

>> *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.
>
>You can poke around at the University of Washington Atmospheric Sciences
>web site for Pacific Northwest weather, as well as temp, pressure, wind,
>and precip records going back about 8 years for many stations.

And there are online records if you hunt hard enough for some locations
that go back far more than 8 years. 

-- 
Ak'toh'di

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