Havoc continues as summer close to a close in the northern hemisphere

In the twelve days since we reported last, we had 472 hits on 48 different ZTBs reported; that is 34% of total active ZTBs out there. Two new countries were affected, Belgium and the United Arab Emirates, as well as twelve other countries and 20 of the states here in the U. S (if you include the District of Columbia. Places with greater than ten hits in this reporting period, which we refer to as hotspots, include Ontario, Canada, Maryland and Pennsylvania (as always), New jersey, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, West Virginia and Kentucky (there was a major outbreak at the Hatfield-McCoy megs event) Spain, and Germany. It will be interesting to see how activity changes as the weather cools down where the ZTBs are most active. We have had intermittent unconfirmed reports that a new outbreak is brewing in New York City; this would make sense as activity in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey has picked up. We’ll do out best to keep you posted.