Zeta - Just FYI

Tropical Storm Zeta Alive at the 12:45 PM satellite photo January 4, 2006.
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Tropical Storm Zeta Maintaining its IntensityPosted: 4-JAN-2006 08:32am EST
By AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Heather Zehr
Tropical Storm Zeta, which is the 27th named tropical cyclone for the 2005 hurricane season, formed in the east-central Atlantic Friday morning December 30th. Since then, Zeta has maintained tropical storm strength into 2006. Zeta ties with Alice of 1954 for the latest a tropical storm has formed in the Atlantic basin.
At 5:00 A.M. AST, Zeta was located near 22.1 north, 43.1 west, or 1,325 miles east-northeast of the Leeward Islands. Maximum sustained winds are at 65 mph and Zeta is moving slowly to the southwest at 7 mph. The estimated minimum central pressure is 994 millibars, or 29.35 inches. Zeta remains a threat only to ships at sea in the eastern Atlantic. Given its location we expect the storm to go through weakening and intensifying cycles. hurricane has never developed in the month of January in the Atlantic Basin.
Zeta, like Delta, is located in an area where water temperatures are just warm enough to sustain the storm, and the strong upper-level wind flow is staying just west and north. It will take a stronger and deeper upper-level system to come along and shove it farther north into stronger shear and into colder waters to substantially weaken the system. Another characteristic of Zeta is that the thunderstorms are low-topped and therefore the stronger upper-level winds are not reaching the thunderstorm tops. In fact, the stronger upper-level winds are helping to vent this system and that is why it is intensifying in pulses. If the storm intensifies too much, the thunderstorm tops will grow high enough for the shear to affect the system. Until that happens, Zeta will remain a well-organized storm.
Note: Any storms named in early 2006 will use the 2006 Atlantic Basin Tropical Cyclone list shown below.
2006 TROPICAL CYCLONE NAMES:
Alberto Beryl Chris Debby Ernesto Florence Gordon Helene Isaac Joyce Kirk Leslie Michael Nadine Oscar Patty Rafael Sandy Tony Valerie William
The hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin, which includes the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean officially begins June 1.-->
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There has not been a named tropical storm in the Atlantic Basin at this time of year since 1954.
We've reached the 27 mark in named storms.
Interesting data, to muse upon with our spiritual senses. The Continent of Africa keeps on spewing out storms. Perhaps it is connected to the fact that her people are all dying?

I think the Earth is Speaking.
So does Dr. Emoto - from Dr. Emoto's Christmas message at www.hado.net
"....this century looks as if it is creeping closer and closer to a big disaster. I think each one of you must have had some type of personal feeling that something is going wrong these days.
As that threat became more and more realistic, more and more people started to come to me. As you may know, for the past five years, I have been traveling to overseas more than staying within my home country.
Even still, I had doubts in myself until about three years ago. “What can I do? Am I really supposed to do something?” However, that doubt disappeared two years ago when my daughter had her first son, my first grandson. I never knew that a grandchild can be so adorable. The more I adored him, the more I started to worry about his future. “How would this earth look like when he turns 20, or 30? Will the humanity still exist?”
This is when I made up my mind. “I need to take a responsibility as a grandpa. I want to do something so that I will not regret what I see from above when I pass away.” Since then, I saw myself not just as a water researcher but a person with a commitment for world peace.
So the promise I made on May 26 th at the United Nations was a promise as a grandpa to dedicate all my life for. I take this opportunity here to ask for your understanding and support for the next decade starting from next year.
December 24, 2005
Masaru Emoto

His Holiness the Dalai Lama is in India now starting a period of prayer.

GUNTUR (AP): The Dalai Lama will take part in 12-day "Kalachakra", a Buddist religious programe beginning on Thursday, in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. The Buddhist spiritual leader, who arrived at Amaravathi in the district, was welcomed at the helipad by state Finance Minister K Rosiah and Tourism Minister Geetha Reddy. Earlier, the Dalai Lama, during his visit to Nagarjunasagar project in Guntur district, said Buddhist philosophy would promote peace. He also planted saplings in Nagarjunasagar project and went round the island museum in the huge reservoir.

We all have to do our part in our own way to promote the peaceful way.

All of us, together. It does seem a daunting task, doesn't it.

But remember, the sum of the parts is greater than the whole.
And a piece of peace helps to make the puzzle fit together.