I have been so bewilrdeed in the past but now it all makes sense!

Daryl..Luckily, Japan is far away (7500 km between Japan and BC), and many weather systems that affect Japan never make it to Canada.. but rather move up over the North Pacific towards Russia or Alaska or just dissipate over the Pacific. Even if there's a strong jet stream and favourable upper air pattern, it would still take a good 3 or 4 days (or more) for a weather system in Japan to reach the West Coast of North America and then another couple of days to reach Manitoba (if at all) Even if it does, the amount of radiation that would be left would be minimal by the time it reached NA as the radioactive material would have been diffused by the wind, or precipitated out. But it would also depend on how much radioactive material was injected into the air, and at what height. I'm not a nuclear fallout expert by any means, but that's what I've read so far.See Jeff Masters blog for some good info on atmospheric circulations and possible radiation cloud trajectories. NY Times has a nice graphic showing a model trajectory from Japan to California this week, requiring 6 days for a plume to cross the Pacific (click my name). What a disaster for the poor Japanese. The earthquake was impressive enough, but that tsunami was something else.. and now a nuclear emergency on top of it all. Hollywood can't even come close to the scenes I've seen out of Japan the past few days. I hope the best for them in the months and years ahead.

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