I am still not up to date processing the wonderful support which has come in. Some have received their access passwords but not all. I should finish the process by tomorrow night at the latest.

About June 12, 2002, the Solar Flux Index dropped to about 140 and thereafter the daily sunspot count dropped down, with some ups and downs, to as low as 85. About June 20 it looked as if the counts would go low enough to drop the monthly average to about 100 and begin to move the curve of Solar Cycle 23 in the direction of the predictions supported by NASA, which showed that June 2002 was the last month of the sunspot peak about 100. But at the beginning of July the counts shot back up again, to as high as 175. During this past 28 days, the Flux average has remained fairly stable at 140, which means that already by now there should be little illusion that the NASA supported predictions can come close to the mark, most definitely not for July. Doubtless, the peak of Solar Cycle 23 is far from over and it would seem that the best estimate, by comparing the past several sunspot cycles, that this cycle is going to be as long as we predicted in the Oak Tree Memo: till very close to December/January.. It could last longer, out to close to the middle of next year, and we could still have another major peak surge lasting a month or two or three into the 200 numbers. The Solar Flares are also still quite pronounced, as they have been through much of this Sunspot Peak period which began in 1999.

We have been in the stream of this wind since early last week. It is flowing out of one of the Sun’s coronal hole and this condition may remain for several more days. This is energizing the earth’s atmosphere keeping the distorted wind flow patterns of the Jet Stream fully charged. Despite enormously heavy thunderheads which flew over the Southwest during the past 24 hours, almost none of the moisture is dropping on land. The air masses are so energized they are flowing far out of normal patterns and they refuse to drop their immense load of moisture. This air over Phoenix today is from the Caribbean just North of Venezuela. IT IS MOVING OVER INTO NEVADA AND CALIFORNIA IN AN EXTREMELY RARE REVERSE FLOW INTO THE PACIFIC OCEAN.

On the 9^th, the number of quakes 3.0 plus in mag finally increased to 13, but for the most part, quakes remained muted as during the Full Moon. However, two quakes, 4.4 and 4.9 struck during the past 24 ours high in the Arctic, at Latitudes North 76 and 86, right in the middle of the Great Oceanic Rift which divides the crust of the Earth across the North Pole. The Arctic is highly quiescent, few quakes occur here above 3.0 and I think that these are the first ones this high North in at least the three years I have been watching. I have been watching for quakes in this area because of the Cayce prediction which warned of (this is paraphrased) "upheavals in the Arctic zones which would make for volcanism in the tropical zones). He gave this prediction specifically to show what would signal that the shifting in the poles was imminent.

Look therefore for these quakes and a subsequent pick-up in volcanic activity in the tropics. Current levels are well defined by the counts being made weekly here from the Southwest Volcanic Center. A rise in activity will be easy to detect.

Another highly interesting pattern was, except for these two in the Arctic, almost all of the quakes (3.0 mag plus) during the past 48 hours have been in the West Pacific, from Japan down to Indonesia. But perhaps the most interesting quake was the 6.0 quake some 150 miles to the West of Coos Bay Oregon on July 9. I made a call to the Chamber of Commerce in Coos Bay and a TV station to learn whether or not people had heard of it but no one had felt it. This brings us to within a whisper of fulfilling one the important beginning points for the Cosa Nostra Damus predictions, but a miss remains as good as a mile. We can breathe easy because it looks like it will be on a later lunar cycle.

Quake activity in California and Nevada continues muted for this syzygy. There were only 298 quakes of all sizes above 1.0 during the last seven days shown on the USGS charts, all under 3.0 in mag. During the last two weeks, there were 100 quakes above 1.0 shown in the USGS charts of the PNW, all small, 70 of them at Mt. Hood. (The Coos Bay quakes are out to sea off the chart).