Tag: meteor

Signs 55 – Start Looking Up
Over the last few months, Yowusa.com researcher J.P. Jones has been heavily mining our database for indicators as to how the remainder of this year will play out. Although the numbers for July 2021 are slightly down let’s not break out the champagne because August is when we enter a historically active period. In September, […]

Signs 53 – Divergent Trends Emerge
The numbers for May 2021 show the emergence of divergent trends for fireballs on one hand, and earthquakes of all magnitudes on the other. While fireballs continue to rise, we’re now seeing small monthly drops in earthquakes this year. However, given the current earthquake activity on the West Coast and Hawaii this month, let’s not […]

Signs 52 – A Small Reprieve
The numbers for April 2021 are the best this year and show a small reprieve from the mind-numbing trends seen so far. As Yowusa.com researcher J.P. Jones explains it, we should not view this reprieve as the reversal of the overall, ominous trends we’re observing. Rather, we see April as either the end of a […]

Signs 51 – Oh Crap!
As the March 2021 data began to come in, Yowusa.com researcher J.P. Jones sent me a mid-month heads-up on the number of observed fireballs. We could see that another all-time record was taking shape. It left us both with a foreboding sense of how the rest of March would play out, given our last […]

Signs 45 – A Quiet Holiday Season?
The Signs data for October 2019 is an odd mix as compared with previous months. Overall, the impression is that we’ve entered a period of transition as compared with trends previously reported. On the one hand, we could be approaching a stabilization point where these troubling upticks could begin to level off somewhat. On the […]

Signs 42 – Beware of Falling Rocks
In terms of fireballs and earthquakes, August 2019 was a record-breaking month. Of the two trends, the more disturbing (and they’re both awful) last month was fireballs. Also, we saw two more very large earthquake (VLE) swarms, and this confirms a pattern dating back to the VLE swarms in Hawaii. Another new development are purple […]

Signs 40 – Crustal Undulation and Planet X
A 7.1 rocked Southern California on July 5, 2019, and it was a wake-up call for savvy Americans. However, given the lack of a respectable death toll, it was another nothing burger Earth event despite the somewhat dark and guarded prognostications of scientists. Is this another case of blah, blah, blah, buy some fresh flashlight […]

Signs 39 – Is There a Breaking Point?
The numbers are in for June 2019, and forget about wondering if we are seeing an alarming trend taking shape with our fireball data, because there is something new and even more worrisome to ponder. Now we have six solid months of record-breaking monthly fireball observations in all of recorded history, is there a breaking […]

Signs 38 – Beta Taurids Stowaway Alert #2
Most asteroid stories are one-trick ponies. They come, make a splash and go. This is a story with legs because it is about a clear and present danger. Namely, the stowaways in the Beta Taurid stream, some of which could be as big as ~100m. In our previous alert, Signs 37 – Beta Taurid Stowaway […]