Budapest Downpour Triggers Flash Floods

A downpour in Budapest triggered flash floods in the Hungarian capital, triggering power failures, while extreme weather elsewhere further damaged the country's already weakened agricultural industry. Firefighters rescued stranded passengers from cars and helped pump water from flooded basements and subway stations across the city on Monday evening, the Emergency Services agency said in a statement on its website. No injuries were reported. Some people were evacuated from their homes. The storm dumped more than 80 millimeters (3 inches) of rain in the span of an hour on Monday evening, more than the monthly average of 55 millimeters to 60 millimeters for August, the National Weather Service said on its website. August 18; http://goo.gl/OI7n2x

As we have seen before on this blogsite, eclipses become active at least three months prior to their actual occurrence. Shown here is the chart for the total lunar eclipse of September 28 at Budapest. A prominent Mars-Jupiter-Neptune opposition occupies the horizon and is also the square the meridian.  One simple interpretation of Jupiter-Neptune is “too much” or  “excess” (Jupiter) of “rain” (Neptune). Kim Farnell associates Neptune with, “freakish weather events, flooding. Neptune's power lies in its ability to lower the barometer and provoke torrential downpours and flooding conditions” [1].

In addition, Neptune is conjunct stars in the  Waters of Aquarius and the Southern Fish. The following extract from Skyscript is, therefore, relevant here:

The area in which it lies has an heavy emphasis upon constellations with watery imagery, the goat-fish (Capricorn), the whale (Cetus), the water-pourer (Aquarius), the fishes (Pisces), and the dolphin (Delphinus) all located nearby, obviously earmarking this region as one that related to the rainy season of the ancient year, by which many of its stars are associated with floods or troubles at sea. The Southern Fish is usually depicted on star maps at the feet of Aquarius, where it swallows up the water poured from his urn (see image) [2].

Finally, notice that on the MC [9ge] are stars of the Hyades. The word “hyades” means “rainers” and the constellation is linked to torrential rain and stormy weather.

So what was the trigger to the eclipse chart that caused the downpour? On August 18, transit Jupiter [1vi30] touched Mars [1vi53] triggering the leading edge of the Mars-Jupiter-Neptune opposition and bringing the combination into manifestation.

[1] http://www.skyscript.co.uk/meteorology1.html

[2]  http://www.skyscript.co.uk/pis_aus.html#formalhaut