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  • From: MarianneLuban AT aol.com
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Thera quote
  • Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:08:44 EDT

In a message dated 8/26/2004 12:43:26 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
Banyai AT t-online.de writes:


>
> > Moreover, it is highly unlikely that the Thera cloud
> > ever reached Egypt--given the counter-clockwise direction of winds around
> the
> > Mediterranean--and that anyone in Egypt would have been able to see the
> ash
> > cloud hundreds of miles away no matter how high (the earth is round).

However, the cloud seems to have stopped at Melos, an island only sixty miles
to the west of Thera. But ashes were deposited hundreds of miles to the
east. That means the headwinds from the west must have been very strong at
the
time, these squalls being a September through November occurrence on the
Aegean.




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