Some serious WTF weather going on NZ

[Vulcan]

Swarms of small tornado's are hitting the west coast (all less than F1's). They're doing a fair whack of damage but we rarely see one or two small tornado's a year, nothing on the scale of the monsters you see in the US but its extremely wierd:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4118348a10.html

[Maverick]

You export beer, we export tornado's. Seems fair to me.



Seriously, I hope they have not done much damage there.

[texasmom]

So y'all don't see tornado's often there?

Sorry to hear about all that damage. Hope everyone turns out okay.

[RAIDER14]

The Day After Tomorrow

[Masherbrum]

Taranaki seems like it's on the North Island, no?    I hope no one is injured in this storm Vulcan.

[Vulcan]

Originally posted by Masherbrum
Taranaki seems like it's on the North Island, no?    I hope no one is injured in this storm Vulcan.

No injuries, the bulk of them are small but its extremely odd. Most 'tornado's reported here are mere water spouts. yeah Taranaki is the on the western bit of the north island, but theres been some tornado's reported north of there as well.

Yeah RAIDER14, few people are saying the same thing: The Day After Tommorrow

[Blank]

ya weird weather everywhere, same here in UK year started with a very strange run of easterly winds for about 2 months straight which was amazing for the surf as was offshore Woo!

But now its basically been raining straight for about 1 1/2 months, wtf is going on, the midlands is still under water, millions of pounds of damage and no SunTAN!!!

Plus the surfs been crap with all this stormy weather :-(

Anyway hope nobody got hurt inthe tornados

[Nilsen]

we even had a tornado here in norway and we never have them.. all year so far has been freaky in one way or another

[McFarland]

We are beginning into the end of days. "Storms and earthquakes in diverse places".

[Scherf]

The sports gods are angry.

[Xargos]

Praise "Bob", for X Day is coming.  

Those of you who are still "Pink" have no hope.  

A SubGenius must have Slack.

[4deck]

Its just further testing

http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2001/hr2977.html

and how it works

http://www.fas.org/spp/military/docops/usaf/2025/v3c15/v3c15-2.htm#v3c15--2

Cheers

[Xargos]

The HAARP Program is jointly managed by the US Air Force and the US Navy, and is based in Gakona, Alaska. It is designed to "understand, simulate and control ionospheric processes that might alter the performance of communication and surveillance systems." The HAARP system intends to beam 3.6 Gigawatts of effective radiated power of high frequency radio energy into the ionosphere in order to:

    * Generate extremely low frequency (ELF) waves for communicating with submerged submarines
    * Conduct geophysical probes to identify and characterize natural ionospheric processes so that techniques can be developed to mitigate or control them
    * Generate ionospheric lenses to focus large amounts of high frequency energy, thus providing a means of triggering ionospheric processes that potentially could be exploited for Department of Defense purposes,
    * Electron acceleration for infrared (IR) and other optical emissions which could be used to control radio wave propagation properties
    * Generate geomagnetic field aligned ionization to control the reflection/scattering properties of radio waves,
    * Use oblique heating to produce effects on radio wave propagation, thus broadening the potential military applications of ionospheric enhancement technology.

http://www.earthpulse.com/haarp/background.html