Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
March 14, 2011
Radioactive particles from the stricken Fukushima nuclear facility
would take around a week to reach Alaska and eleven days to reach Los
Angeles, according to an Accuweather.com analysis, which highlights the
fact that prevailing winds over the region would send any potential
fallout from the crisis-hit plant drifting towards west coast cities in
the United States.
Given the fact that many analysts believe the Japanese government is
grossly understating the amount of radioactive particles released by
the two separate explosions to affect the Fukushima plant, one which
occurred Saturday and one earlier today, monitoring stations in Alaska
will not know if there is a threat from such radiation until Saturday
at the earliest.
“Radiation detected at the Fukushima plant on Monday is twice the maximum seen so far,” the BBC is reporting, citing Kyodo News.
An Accuweather.com analysis
highlights how prevailing wind trajectories would take the radiation
from a westerly direction towards the west coast of the United States.
“A typical wind trajectory across the Pacific is westerly, since
there is often a large dome of high pressure over the central Pacific
and an area of low pressure in the Gulf of Alaska,” writes meteorologist
Meghan Evans.
Today’s localized winds are set to carry any radiation out into the
Pacific from a north westerly to south easterly direction. However,
“The wind direction will switch to an onshore direction Monday night
into Tuesday, threatening to send the radiation toward the population,”
writes Evans. (CONTINUE READING ARTICLE)
