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However, PAGASA also names tropical cyclones that occur or develop into tropical depressions within their self-defined area of responsibility between 5°N–25°N and 115°E–135°E.

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n'An American artist, Kristen Alvanson – out of curiosity or simply boredom, it's not clear – travels to Istanbul to meet a mysterious online contact. The names of significant tropical cyclones are retired from the lists, with a replacement name selected at the next meeting of the Hurricane Committee.Unmanned drones of the sort used against the Taliban are described elsewhere in the book as “mechanical dread”; the language linking these devices to the Lamassu evokes exactly this “ultra-modern ancientness”.

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A cyclone's track is guided over the course of its 2 to 6 day life cycle by the steering flow of the subtropical jet stream. There are six lists of names which rotate every six years and begin with the letters A—Z used, skipping Q and U, with each name alternating between a male or a female name. A tropical cyclone feeds on heat released when moist air rises, resulting in condensation of water vapour contained in the moist air. Nick Land, author of The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism)n'Partly genius, partly quite mad .This five-legged bull-sphinx or centaur is described as an “occult-drone” in language seemingly more suited to the specification of some cutting-edge autonomous mechanised weapon. The earth is produced as a living artifact, gutted and hollowed out by nomadic war tactics, the practices of extreme archaeology and the logic of petroleum extraction. To find a comparable work, one would have to look back to Von Junzt’s Unaussprechlichen Kulten, the prose poems of Olanus Wormius, or to the recent “Neophagist” commentaries on the Book of Eribon.

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Formal naming schemes and lists have subsequently been used for major storms in the Eastern, Central, Western and Southern Pacific basins, and the Australian region, Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean. Apart from Parsani, observations on the modern-day Middle East are also made by a reflective, deserting American colonel named Jackson West (geddit?

Credit for the first usage of personal names for weather systems is generally given to Queensland Government Meteorologist Clement Wragge, who named systems between 1887 and 1907. An avowed atheist, he took absolutely to heart the discoveries of Copernicus, Cuvier, Darwin and (in his own lifetime) Hubble, which progressively decentred humanity from its perceived place in both space and time and did so much to undermine the notion of a Creator with a special place for us in His great Plan.

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P. Lovecraft, and from ancient Islamic (and pre-Islamic) wisdom to the terrifying realities of postmodern asymmetrical warfare, Negarestani excavates the hidden prehistory of global culture in the 21st century. A particularly intense type of extratropical cyclone that strikes during winter is known colloquially as a nor'easter. These bacterial colonies, assuming they really do predate the formation of the Earth itself, are unavoidably connected to the “Outside” – Negarestani’s catch-all term for that overwhelmingly vast sector of existence and process “ delineated not by distance or region but by its exterior functionality of activity”. One is unavoidably reminded of the fascinating ‘impossible figures’ beloved of the surrealist artist M. The best we can hope for is to blinker ourselves and get on with our lives, and not think too hard about the encroaching night.Polar lows were first identified on the meteorological satellite imagery that became available in the 1960s, which revealed many small-scale cloud vortices at high latitudes. A waterspout is a columnar vortex forming over water that is, in its most common form, a non- supercell tornado over water that is connected to a cumuliform cloud.