September 11, 2005. The waves of "Ophelia" at Moorehead City, North Carolina.  

September 12, 2005. This was the lightning that preceded the funnel cloud. It struck the tower which is the highest point in town. 

September 12, 2005. Halifax, Canada. Photographer states :: This obviously appears to be a funnel cloud. Picture One of 2. It's wierd because there was a small thunderstorm, and it was cold! Like only 6 or 7 degrees Celcius, or about 38-40 Fr. And from this small short lived storm came this funnel cloud. It only lasted about a minute or two and never did reach the ground, but i was shocked! Cool though!
 

September 12, 2005. Funnel Cloud in Halifax, Canada. 

September 12, 2005. Pacific Global Satellite. Shows the waining effect of carbon dioxide from North America across The Pacific Ocean. 

September 12, 2005. Water Vapor Satellite GOES WEST.  

September 12, 2005. The Western Hemisphere. 

UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite 12 hour loop - click here

September 12, 2005.

I get a bit romantic about water vapor satellites.

Water is what allows life to exist on Earth. Surface water in the way of headwaters, brooks, streams, rivers, lakes, bays, fjords and oceans is where water comes in contact with the chemicals of Earth and the interaction is magical. Earth is a rock and without water it could never sustain life. So to love water in it's proper place on Earth is to love life.

People worship water all the time. I see it a lot in Wilmington. Beach goers, surf, swim, lie at it's edges for hours and hours in a culture that is COMPLETELY 'of self' in every way. Sun tans, strolling, skills with the surf with 'belly boards' or 'surf boards' or 'paragliding' is all about physcial competency mixed with emotions of excitement, danger and fearless pursuit.

If one has a chance to watch children with water they are fascinated by it. Part of the way we as humans learn about our Earth is by repeated exposure to it's physics in ways people don't even think about. With an infant it's a bath. Confusion at first, eventually setting down to a warm and soothing time out of the cradle or a parent's lap. As a child grows water becomes a toy, splashing. Splashing is a POWER. A parent cannot control a child from splashing. A child begins to feel power over their environment by extracting reaction from parents by splashing water EVERYWHERE !!!

So, I could on and on about couples and far away romantic places and what do they dream about? The beach. Water is used a great deal in religious rituals whether one believes or not there is still the 'splashing' quality that is life and sometimes the life after. To life, there is Christian Baptism. To death there is the Hindu Ganges. Water is everywhere in culture.

So, this is my water vapor today along the western hemisphere facing the east coast of North America. There is "Ophelia," the turbulence of the Pacific and the 'hurricane' over the Arctic Ocean.

UNISYS Infrared Satellite 12 hour loop - click here

September 12, 2005. UNISYS Infrared GOES EAST satellite. "Ophelia" is clearly seen as an eddy off the Artic Ocean Vortex. Noted is a very accelerated 'hurricane' at the 1 o'clock position of this satellite. Click on title to view 12 hour loop. Also noted is the realatively 'quiet' Gulf of Mexico as in opposition of the Pacific Ocean of North America. By North America, I mean all of North America clean on down to Panama.

September 12, 2005. "Ophelia" and the new front of carbon dioxide as it moves through from the west. Noted, there is a chronic circumstance with the Upper MidWest states and severe storms.  

The vortex eddy called socially "Hurricane Ophelia"

September 12, 2005.

The Eddy of the Arctic Ocean Vortex, "Ophelia."

I did a drive around to take a look at the periphery of the storm. over Wilmington and eastern NC. It's interesting.

The last 'True Hurricane' I was able to experience in it's duration was "Dennis" in 1999, our first year in Wilmington.

This time I have a different perspective as October 4, 2002, the year the vortices manifested, has brought a very overt understanding of the dynamics that accompany Earth Heating under a human induced carbon dioxide blanket which is regional in many ways and not necessarily global.

The cloud patterns I witnessed today have exact likeness to what I coined as "Heat Transfer Systems" that travel from the equator to the Arctic Circle on any given day in these dynamics.

And why should it not?

These are 'eddied storms' off an Arctic Ocean Vortex that carries the same 'purpose' as the 'Heat Transfer System' clouds will deliver the same results, but, by different methods. The 'streams of heat' transfer heat to the Arctic Ocean resulting in sublimination of the ice from the air. The 'eddies' are an accelerated mechanisms that rapidly deliver heat to the oceans resulting in 'melitng' of the ice from underneath.

The only difference with these storms is that they are concentrated convection systems. So regardless of 'streams' of heat or 'eddies' of heat the purpose and mechanisms seem identical. The eddies are far more ferocious and deadly because they have high energy (heat calories) that drive them, but, in the long run these systems no matter their manifestation will be the end to biotic Earth.

Commemorating September 11, 2001.

One third of the USA is currently equivalent to a Third World Nation. (Creating it's own population open to become terrorists.)

The country is lead by Fundamentalist Incompetents who have created lies and deceptions invading a country, namely Iraq, for it's oil assets. The invasion has not really panned out because the people of Iraq, lead by a Sunni Resistance Movement, truly object to the presence of Americans in their country. Violence within Iraq has persisted from the initial anarchy and show no signs of relenting.

The USA is cannabalizing it's own natural resources in an attempt to 'stay the course' with Bush Cronies rather than mobilizing state of the art technologies to define it's energy and transportation needs.

Afghanistan is still the primary source of Poppies in the world and the violence within Afghanistan continues spinning off warlords such as the Ubeck that funded the Uzbecks who attacked Beslan, Russia. The former Soviet Satellites, such as The Ukraine, have attempted to achieve 'democracy' in free elections but those attempts are failing (Due to the lack of substantial investments in their new infrastruture. Basically, all these so - called democracies are left to fend for themselves and can't do it. The USA has a long and rather proud history of investing in burgeoning freedom but this administration cannot afford it and doesn't believe in social programs abroad. Bush is failing at his own priorities). To some extent Russia's initiatives to maximize global stability regardless of Bush's Global Lawlessness (Creating chaos increases the possibilty of insurgency within a nation. If that should happen in a nation such as Georgia which has oil/gas assets it would be advantageous to Halliburton for the USA to take an aggressive stand for invasion to 'STABILIZE' the situation. It's a strategy. It kills citizens of that country. It creates a possiblity for a change in government but as Iraq as an example it isn't a good strategy.) has been twarted but it would appear not for long.

Basically, Osama bin Laden has gotten away with it while the USA spins on it own axis of evil uncontrollably due to an administration that maintains control by using Osama bin Laden as an icon of fear.