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Just a mile down from where the last Tornado struck, Birmingham today sees another blow. Coming at a time when most of the region was stuck in traffic jams due to heavy rain and flooding.

“Commuters sat in traffic jams for hours as the city’s main roads ground to a halt - Birmingham once again under siege from the elements.”Source

“We all felt the wind blow right through the building and wondered what was going on, then we heard a big bang. The worst damage was to a business across the road, something like a wooden pallet was picked up and hurled through the roof. It is still sticking out of it.

The weather conditions are similar to those of the afternoon 28 July when a tornado struck the Moseley and Kings Heath parts of the city. ” Source

With no major solar activity to report after Septembers fist-o-flares the weather conditions in the area must have been just right.

Huston we have a …. well no not a problem as such, more of an emergency I would say:

Rita is up to category four five four. Totally won’t be suprising in the US at least for pump prices to go back up. Urbansurvival.com have also called a nuclear power plant not to mention GWB’s Crawford ranch within the storm track, not that you will hear that officially of course until the headlines are written, but Texas could take quite a hamering from this one. NASA managed to weather Katrina, I think the space shuttle tanks escaped unharmed by Katrina but not much was made of that.

We’ve got the global warming crew out in force on this issue, noting that America’s view on Kyoto and atitude is causing these hurricanes *sigh*.

It’s one to watch, a few days after the geomagnetic storms subside, I’m begining to see paterns that major weather is effected by the extra energy from solar storms usually a few days or a week after the event, for example now.

As for the human cost, damm that is gonna cut right up through Texas with Tornados popping off here and there, flash flooding and the like wouldn’t be unexpected I guess.

As I read reports of climate change on Mars, can we not for one second consider that the sun maybe connected to all of this somehow?

“What further proof could I possibly provide th[a]n the “fact” that Mars, where not one single human exist is experiencing so-called “global warming”. So step up hot-shot global warming zealot. Tell us why “Mars” is experiencing a warming trend?” Mitch Battros, BBC Article

If global warming is happening elsewhere in the *solar* system, yes the solar system and assuming that our technology isn’t causing the release of Carbon Dioxide on Mars and assuming there are no roads, heavy industries, comercial air craft and gas powered power stations … how do you explain what is happening to Mars is it not the same thing we are seeing here …… nature in action?

How do you explain dust devils on Mars that occured at the same time as Tornados on Earth that occured at the same time that a massive flare was released from the sun. The Ozone layer is at record lows, as it was in January when a massive sunspot caused many flares. Facts are there, world opinion is focused on the fraud of Global Warming .. go figure!

Three major storms were tracked after Katrina, Maria was on track for Iceland, but instead hit norway. In the UK last nights awful weather could have been the edges of such a storm. Fact is a (downgraded) Hurricane has just hit Europe after tracking a unusual path, that swa it drop off American radars last week and was downgraded to a tropical depression.

“The two storms sprung out of the Caribbean last week but headed northeast instead of towards the US mainland. By the time they hit the Nordic area, they’re expected to have lost much of their punch.” Source

Question remains now, if this happens again will there be a hand over of data from American agencies to European ones, noting Norway isn’t too far away from where I am now (in the scheme of things), noting that a hurricane tracked to Europe and noting recent solar events, it makes for an interesting story.

“Maria hit the western shores of Scandinavia with south-southwestern winds blowing at an average speed of between 75 and 90 kilometers (47 to 56 miles) per hour.”

Channel 4 just aired a documentary about the Tornado that hit South Birmingham, UK back at the end of July. Facinating, bizare to think it happened down the road. I’d be well up for retraining as a meteorologist, obviously with a space weather interest. The F scale relates to major tornados and as most non-US tornadoes only reach F2 or F3 another scale is used for non-US events, and the Birmingham event rated at the higher end of the T Scale.

There was a defence of the Met Office not issuing a warning, yeah totaly acceptable, very hard to predict, although a group of amatuers called the tornado before it hit. Following a theme of preparing for more extreme weather I just looked at our house and found the places to best avoid collapse, be that wind or earthquake, changes in our environment are occuring, we can’t stop them or even predict them, we can only prepare to weather the storms.

All this couldn’t come at a more timely moment for me as I have been reading about how solar storms can impact the weather here. We are currently expriencing an extreme amount of solar storming, at a solar minimum where such large scale events are rare, which makes it even more interesting.

With continued interest in recent high scoring solar activity, I read from urbansurvival.com that they are calling a close call for Iceland with ….. a hurricane. Seems that Maria is increasingly bending that way at the moment, hopefully cold water will force it to weaken, but with that extra energy from the sun, their guess is as good as anyone elses. I have no idea on this, perhaps it could harmlessly hit the Artic circle, but could that chance of some stormy weather affect the UK slighly? Middle of the month we should know!

Check this image if anyone is in doubt, this image sums it all up, gets even more interesting when you see that nate is following a similar shape and track.

Maria means “bitter” in Hebrew, just throwing that one in as an interest point.

“Ophelia Becomes New Atlantic Hurricane”: on the other hand Ophelia is nudging closer to Floria. Something bizzare is happening, not only did some of these storms stall but one may swing round near Iceland as a troppical depression at best.

Glup, which isn’t that far geographically speaking from erm the UK at least Scotland. I’m certainly hoping that the sun is now done with her flares, if not the world maybe in for some rough days as that sunspot takes aim. Earthquakes are prone to magnetic shifts.

As I type this another X Class flare has come from sunspot region 789/808.

In the wake of the extremely large solar flare yesterday, bearing in mind this wasn’t even earth directed, a tornado touches down in North Eastern Spain. I know what I’m thinking, I should give it a rest .. . Noooo! how interesting is the Sun at the moment? One of the largest flares of Cycle 23, I saw it happen almost live through the web, although for some reason :

Soho is still in bakeout mode, makes you wonder if NASA are trying to hide something about Cycle 23 not being in a normal, nice and predictable period of solar activity. Our star is having one hell of a mood swing! This is gonna be an interesting month with 2 X Class flares and M Classes already fired off within only the past 24 hours.

Watch for extreme or strange weather as well as power outages and strange events.

“The tornado, which was on the ground for 10 minutes, had winds estimated at more than 100 kph (60 mph).” Source

Sunspot region 789, renamed 808 is peering over the edge of the sun, this is where the X Class came from

F**kin Jesus Christ : Mega Flare X13+ from 798 …. not long ago! This is serious stuff.

“KATRINA COMMUNICATIONS MAY HAVE BEEN AFFECTED”

With Tropical Depression 16 stalled off the coast of Florida just being named Ophelia, with Tropical Storm Nate out there and Tropical Depression Maria weakning (as Katrina did), I really am thinking of the possibility of Katrina being the opening act, fricken hell if an X Class flare hits the Earth with those kinds of storms stalled or in 1st gear right now, jesus christ you don’t wanna know as for freak weather around the world, watch this space.

“Significant solar eruptions are possible in the coming days. “This flare, the fourth largest in the last 15 years, erupted just as the … sunspot cluster was rotating onto the visible disk of the sun,’ said Larry Combs, solar forecaster at the center. The flare has affected some high-frequency communications on the sunlit side of Earth, NOAA reported.” Source

3 Storms left to right : Ophelia, Nate, Maria, watch for storm intensification in the event of flares hitting the Earth
X13 flare from eastern limb, watch for huge sunspots in coming days
The flare as seen in real conditions from the ground, click for the x-ray flux

I really hate that sunspot region, although not Earth directed yet and still hidden on the very edge of the back of the sun a very nasty solar flare has just been released, in spite of this being a solar minimum. That region might have caused the freak tornado in Birmingham and has been cycling the sun in roughly 20 day periods for a couple of months, waxing and waning, it released an X Class while I was on holiday, but nowhere near X13, highest released so far could have been an X45 during the Halloween storms of 2003.

January, start of the year. I present A few sentences, snapshots of what I have read since the start of the year from the web bot project, keeping it and many other things in the back of my mind. There are blockquotes from the Web Bot reports as seen on urbansurvival.com, behind this excerpt, click the title of this post to see them … I really hope you read them.

“we nonetheless note that the [white flowers] contain, ’spinning’ and ‘rotating’ as primary attributes”, “courage when faced with rising waters’ sort of emotional ’stiffening’ that is coming through”, “here are some rising level of indicators suggesting that our ‘10 years worth of hurricanes’ will start the season early, and will be led by a surprising/shocking/attention gathering] (lightning) storm”, “We also need to note that within the Terra entity, the ’sun’ sub set is a very large area which goes to the idea of ’sun refugees”.

This has been gathering from the start of the year, initially I was too freaked out to even post properly about it, because I have been into this for a while now, and then it happened, months of tid bits playing out on the screens. We need to focus on how to live with such events.

At first it sounds crazy, but these guys talked of the Tunsami before it hit, Earthquake storms and Katrina, previous to that it was the 50million blackedout people, left without power. It’s realy interesting stuff, when added to the Sun Earth connection, you’ll never end with this subject.

“Tropical Storm Maria was gathering strength from warm ocean water but remained over the open Atlantic on Saturday and posed no immediate threat to land. Maria would be the season’s fifth hurricane if its sustained wind speed reaches 74 mph.” Source

These reports within hours of each other

“Its top sustained wind speed was approaching 100 mph, up from 90 mph in the early morning, and the system was expected to continue strengthening until it is sapped of its strength when it reaches cooler water later in the week.” Source

At least over here the shortage of petrol (even to the emergency services) in summer 2000 was a man made event and there was actually tankers ready to roll. With perhaps more than half of America’s oil capacity simply shut down by just one, and it is just one, horendous Atlantic storm, leading to shortage of so called gas, could parts of America feel what we felt in 2000? Sparse shelves and panic buying might, just might become the norm til year end.

“me, I’m trying to stay one step ahead and pick up some food because when the bread and milk trucks can’t fill up, well that’s when it’ll get interesting won’t it” Source