Volcano showers sand and ash over Guatemala

April 27, 2010

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/volcano-showers-sand-and-ash-over-guatemala/story-fn3dxity-1225859029132

THE Santiaguito volcano showered sand and ash on Monday over a large area of western Guatemala in an “unusual”‘ and “violent”‘ eruption, the national seismological institute said.

Winds were carrying the ash in a northeasterly direction from the volcano, 2500 metres above sea level in the province of Quetzaltenango, 206km west of the capital, it said.

The ash plume spread across six provinces, raising fears of damage to crops, the institute said, while classes were suspended at schools in three provinces.

The national disaster reduction coordination agency CONRED increased its alert level to orange, one level below the maximum red, its director Alejandro Maldonado said.

The volcanic activity propelled gray ash more than 8300m into the air, and Conred advised civil aviation authorities to ban flying within 15km of the volcano.

Santiaguito’s worst eruption occurred in 1929 when 2500 people were killed.

Another magnetic storm, other earthquakes ??

Salutations,

Many believe that there is a correlation between geomagnetic storm and earthquakes and volcanic activities.

On this april 23rd 2010 we are a gain in a geomagnetic storm.  We then should expect earthaquakes and volcanic activities if this theory still prove its righteousness.

U.S. Northeast May Have Coldest Winter in a Decade (Update2)

U.S. Northeast May Have Coldest Winter in a Decade (Update2)

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p…d=amm7GJfWypJE

By Todd Zeranski and Erik Schatzker

Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Northeast may have the coldest winter in a decade because of a weak El Nino, a warming current in the Pacific Ocean, according to Matt Rogers, a forecaster at Commodity Weather Group.

“Weak El Ninos are notorious for cold and snowy weather on the Eastern seaboard,” Rogers said in a Bloomberg Television interview from Washington. “About 70 percent to 75 percent of the time a weak El Nino will deliver the goods in terms of above-normal heating demand and cold weather. It’s pretty good odds.”

Warming in the Pacific often means fewer Atlantic hurricanes and higher temperatures in the U.S. Northeast during January, February and March, according to the National Weather Service. El Nino occurs every two to five years, on average, and lasts about 12 months, according to the service.

Hedge-fund managers and other large speculators increased their net-long positions, or bets prices will rise, in New York heating oil futures in the week ended Sep. 22, according to U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data Sept. 25.

“It could be one of the coldest winters, or the coldest, winter of the decade,” Rogers said.

U.S. inventories of distillate fuels, which include heating oil, are at their highest since January 1983, the U.S. Energy Department said Sept. 23. Stockpiles of 170.8 million barrels in the week ended Sept. 18 are 28 percent above the five-year average.

Heating oil for October delivery rose 1.38 cents, or 0.8 percent, to settle at $1.6909 a gallon on the New York Mercantile Exchange.