I am actually freaking out :(

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ok this is weather wise please bare with me :(

I am actually freaking out :(

emmylou 22 Dec 2010 01:33

I live in the UK as most of you know, in Cumbria they had an earthquake here is the link [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12056634] quite common they say far enough.

Sorry about the other link :/ this is the right link to the earthquake that happened on Wed [http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/la-fg-iran-quake-20101222,0,2845573.story]

Then i hear that Japan has also had an earhquake link here [http://www.suite101.com/content/earthquake-of-magnitude-74-strikes-japans-bonin-islands-a323638]

Then to top it all off they have snow in Australia :/

some people think i am stupid because i watch things like this but come on it's wonkie, this is not to scare anybody this is to try and get some here to steady me because i am doing terrible at the minute *cries* has anybody got any ideas what is happening? why is the weather wonkie? and please don't say it ain't because it really is, just a natural cycle? does that sound ok? and right?

Sorry for going on you are seeing for the first time me freaking out big style :(

Emmy

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TheGreatJuju 22 Dec 2010 01:56

Emmy, quakes all around the world are a daily occurrence. There can be dozens to hundreds of earthquakes on any given day, most of them small but not always so.

There are ski resorts in Australia, so I'm not sure what is so disturbing about some snowfall there.

It was a hot summer. There's been a lot of snow in the late year, particularly recently in North America. Maybe that's "wonkie." Even if so, why is "wonkie" weather something to worry about?

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Re: I am actually freaking out :(

emmylou 22 Dec 2010 02:11

It's the UK we don't get many earthquakes :/

As for me freaking out about the wonkie weather I don't know is the answer it's a trigger same with with anything that happens outta balance, I have always had my eye on the weather, I got told last night that maybe i am paying attention to things to much? but is that not what you do when you are scared? worried? feeling weird about something? I help so many people deal with fear yet I can't deal with my own :( that really sucks ugh.

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TheGreatJuju 22 Dec 2010 02:56

It's the UK we don't get many earthquakes :/

I suspect you have more than you realize. ;)

http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk

As for me freaking out about the wonkie weather I don't know is the answer it's a trigger same with with anything that happens outta balance, I have always had my eye on the weather,

Weather is just one of those things for which we can establish trends, but it's always subject to some pretty extreme variation. Where I live (Arkansas, U.S.), we've had winters where we get buried under a layer of ice, and we've had winters where we don't see much ice or snow at all, some years going below freezing only rarely if at all. Those are just some of the perils of living on a planet with an atmosphere. Crazy swings are actually more the norm than consistency, though we can always expect some general patterns to emerge over time.

I got told last night that maybe i am paying attention to things to much? but is that not what you do when you are scared? worried? feeling weird about something?

Maybe, but that doesn't mean doing so is a good thing. The fundamental issue here is figuring out why you're finding so much significance in things that really aren't significant at all. I really wish I could help, but I don't even know where to begin other than say what I've already said about your concerns. :(

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Alene Y 22 Dec 2010 05:43

Ho Emmylou,
You've probably seen this from the USGS before, but it bears repeating.

"we have definitely had an increase in the number of earthquakes we have been able to LOCATE each year. This is because of the tremendous increase in the number of seismograph stations in the world and the many improvements in global communications. In 1931, there were about 350 stations operating in the world; today, there are more than 8,000 stations and the data now comes in rapidly from these stations by electronic mail, internet and satellite. This increase in the number of stations and the more timely receipt of data has allowed us and other seismological centers to locate earthquakes more rapidly and to locate many small earthquakes which were undetected in earlier years. The NEIC now locates about 20,000 earthquakes each year or approximately 50 per day. Also, because of the improvements in communications and the increased interest in the environment and natural disasters, the public now learns about more earthquakes."

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/topics/increase_in_earthquakes.php

I haven't noticed anything unusual about the weather. It has always varied from day to day and year to year. I remember a blizzard on the 27th of April. My grandmother remembered one in July! You are seeing things that seem unusual to you, but they have all happened before, just not that you know of during your lifetime.

Re: I am actually freaking out :(

emmylou 22 Dec 2010 21:09

Thank you all for your replies :)

Sadly I can't get this out of my head :( the heat waves across the globe in the summer, the coldness now, meh I am sure you are all right and i am just worrying about nothing :)

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Laura (guest) 23 Dec 2010 00:20

Did you realize that the 2nd story was written in 2003??? Look at the date that it says it was last updated…… :)

emmylou 23 Dec 2010 01:36

Laura thanks :) I have the right one there now ;) well spotted :D

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UndeadxNurse 23 Dec 2010 17:07

Let's just put it this way..

Weather is an anomaly, and as much as we would like to believe, weather isn't an exact science, it isn't as predictable as we would like it to be, weather, like a volcano, is very volatile, it can explode at any given moment, but unlike a volcano, weather isn't always destructive. Think about it or, as my Kindergarten teacher used to say.. Use your noodle.

If it rains in Arizona. Does that mean that we should be worried?
If it rains in the middle of the ocean, should we be worried?
If there is a thunderstorm where thunderstorms are rare, should we be worried about that, too?

Earthquakes are every bit of volatile and unpredictable, and considering that some form of earthquake is common literally everywhere on the planet, I would say that worrying about a little rumble is nonsense.
Did you know that there are actually tremors (no, not the monsters from the movie) in even Ohio and Michigan?

Thinking back, I really see no difference between the weather when I was a kid, and the weather now, aside from the slight intensity of the storms today, but I'm used to strong storms.

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emmylou 24 Dec 2010 02:06

If there is one thing I have learned over the past year and a bit is to use my noodle :)

But what happens when even though you know what you are thinking is completely stupid you can't help it? what happens when the logic is there that tells you you're being silly but your brain is refusing to deal with that so no mater how hard you try and steady yourself it's always gonna freak you out?

I am sorry if i sounds like a complete retard with this, but i have been obsessed with the weather since i was a kid and things are changing ok so it might no mean much at all, but the fact remains it's gonna get so much worse before it gets any better.

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UndeadxNurse 24 Dec 2010 18:35

But what happens when even though you know what you are thinking is completely stupid you can't help it? what happens when the logic is there that tells you you're being silly but your brain is refusing to deal with that so no mater how hard you try and steady yourself it's always gonna freak you out?

What happens? Usually not the best of outcomes, usually when you continue to think about something that affects you in a very negative way, it can result in social disorders such as agoraphobia¹ or, it can result in an emotional relapse of sorts. In simple word, it isn't healthy for you, physically, mentally or, emotionally.

I find that the positive effects of rationality vs. logic are greater than that of trying to think logically, contrary to popular belief, it's easier to think rationally, as apposed to attempting to think logically in a time when your logical views are slowly becoming more pessimistic in nature.

I am sorry if i sounds like a complete retard with this, but i have been obsessed with the weather since i was a kid and things are changing ok so it might no mean much at all, but the fact remains it's gonna get so much worse before it gets any better.

There's nothing to be sorry for.
Things could get worse, but that fact still remains to be proven, there may be plenty of "data", but in the end, our Earth has, and always will throw unexpected curve-balls at us.

I've said this a million times before. The weather isn't doing anything unusual, this time around, there are just more people in its way.

Footnotes

1. Fear of going outside, usually triggered by a traumatic experience.

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Monica (guest) 22 Dec 2010 23:48

I've actually been really concerned about the weather. There's mudslides and stuff in California. All those earthquakes….I saw in another thread about 2010's weather beinf really weird. Stuff like this scares me also. Why shouldn't we be worried when the weather is very strange??????

(account deleted) 23 Dec 2010 00:20

Monica,

As you'll see in previous posts, the earthquakes and weather that worrying you aren't unprecedented, and (if we look at more than just the last few decades) aren't that unusual.

One thing that is unprecedented is the number of people living in places that are in harm's way, in buildings that aren't constructed to handle what nature throws at them. We (i.e., humankind) need to address this problem. Doing so will require much attention, resource, and cooperation between governments and their people. Fear-mongering 2012 "entertainment" and the various conspiracy theorists are ruinous to taking care of this and every other real problem.

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Laura (guest) 23 Dec 2010 00:30

Something that alarmed me, a little… was that we've had 19 7.0+ quakes this year…more than any other year. I guess maybe I'll reading too much into it, but since I've heard about this 2012 stuff, everything different seems to scare me,

TheGreatJuju 23 Dec 2010 02:37

Something that alarmed me, a little… was that we've had 19 7.0+ quakes this year…more than any other year.

That is simply not true. There were twenty in 1970 and nineteen in 1971. 1990, 1995 and 1999 all had eighteen.

http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/other/quake1.html

There's nothing unusual about nineteen quakes in that magnitude range. Also, as I've explained before, an average by definition will see roughly half of the values below the mean and half of the values above it.

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Keith the Gamer Geek 23 Dec 2010 02:58

Hi Monica,

There's a joke that states that the four seasons of California are Earthquake, Fire, Flood, and Riot. This stuff happens to them occasionally and sometimes it gets pretty hairy, but the world just keeps on rolling. Did the world end two years after the Northridge quake in '89? Obviously not. So there's no reason to believe the world will end two years hence either.

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Amber Smith (guest) 23 Dec 2010 01:27

The weird weather has me worried too. I started another thread on my fears.

emmylou 23 Dec 2010 01:30

hey there Amber :)

I replied on your thread, I thought i was going mad but it's a comfort in a way to know people are concerned as well as me, I have to say though my weather obsessions and fears have nothing to do with 2012, it's just that and i am sticking to my guns on this one, the weather is wrong these days and I think everybody can see this.

Emmy

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

Amber Smith (guest) 23 Dec 2010 04:14

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1340436/Why-cold-warm-Greenland-Diverted-jet-stream-l/index.html

Here is an explanation of why it's snowing on the 2nd day of Summer in Australia!!!

emmylou 23 Dec 2010 06:40

I need to get a hobbie i think :D

Sometimes I think I have way to much time on my hands *blushes*

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

bikenbeer2000 23 Dec 2010 13:17

Here in England in 1975, we had a cricket match stopped by snow in June: http://www.espncricinfo.com/derbyshire/content/image/462042.html
We just thought it was amusing, not the end of the world. The remainder of the summer of '75 turned out to be one of the hottest on record but was eclipsed by an even hotter summer in '76.
There are always strange variations in the weather. In England we welcome them because it gives us something to talk about.