raden wrote:

Funny how they seem to occur from the north pole to the south pole

http://projects.crustal.ucsb.edu/und...obe/globe.html

strange that ...

And always at or near the surface too. But what has that to do with the
weather?

This present wet spell will end at about the same time that a large
magnitude earthquake strikes in one of the places you mentioned. Keep
your abuse to yourself until then.