15th September - Today's News: Haiti Prepares for Hurricane Igor
Things are hotting up in the Atlantic and Carribean: Julia a Cat 4 hurricane; TS Karl heading for Mexico and forecasters warn conditions are right for more storms in the Gulf. But the immediate concern is the many thousands of Haitians still living in tents after January's big earthquake as Haiti braces for Hurricane Igor. It's not expected to make landfall in Haiti, but track more towards Bermuda. However heavy rain is likely and in Haiti that always means landslides and floods.
In India, Brahmaputra crosses danger mark, Assam flood situation critical
We may not be looking at any snow in Britain for a good while yet - except the odd flurry over the Cairngorms (as fell yesterday), but in Canada Calgarians make the best of it as snow - yes snow - clouds forecasts. And in these case it's a real forecast.
For those looking for a gamble, white christmas betting odds 2010 has London and Dublin looking chilly - though only a fool would take odds this far out of 7/2 for snow to fall in London! Especially since Paddy Power requires there to have been at least 1mm of snow recorded as falling (though I cannot see how this can be measured?) .
Reports only now coming in from N Korea indicate the earlier this month typhoon Kompasu killed dozens of people
Just as we thought the Clovis Comet hypothesis was dead and buried, nanodiamonds discovered in Greenland ice sheet - providing new evidence of an impact.
It wasn't always warm for the dinosaurs as new evidence shows a major fall in temperature 137 million years ago during Cretaceious greenhouse period.
Sun and volcanic eruptions pace North Atlantic climate changes
And finally, on an off topic subject but one I'm greatly concerned about, it's been a busy year for Snowdonia's Ogwen Valley rescue team - and is it any wonder when the two men in thair latest call out
In India, Brahmaputra crosses danger mark, Assam flood situation critical
We may not be looking at any snow in Britain for a good while yet - except the odd flurry over the Cairngorms (as fell yesterday), but in Canada Calgarians make the best of it as snow - yes snow - clouds forecasts. And in these case it's a real forecast.
For those looking for a gamble, white christmas betting odds 2010 has London and Dublin looking chilly - though only a fool would take odds this far out of 7/2 for snow to fall in London! Especially since Paddy Power requires there to have been at least 1mm of snow recorded as falling (though I cannot see how this can be measured?) .
Reports only now coming in from N Korea indicate the earlier this month typhoon Kompasu killed dozens of people
Just as we thought the Clovis Comet hypothesis was dead and buried, nanodiamonds discovered in Greenland ice sheet - providing new evidence of an impact.
It wasn't always warm for the dinosaurs as new evidence shows a major fall in temperature 137 million years ago during Cretaceious greenhouse period.
Sun and volcanic eruptions pace North Atlantic climate changes
And finally, on an off topic subject but one I'm greatly concerned about, it's been a busy year for Snowdonia's Ogwen Valley rescue team - and is it any wonder when the two men in thair latest call out
"were walking from Carnedd Dafydd to Pen yr Olau Wen, got lost in cloud, and found themselves on steep, loose, wet and rocky ground," he said.
"They had no map, no compass, didn't know where they were and their GPS system's battery was flat," he said.
Is it perhaps time GPS system manufacturers started paying a small levy towards Mountain Rescue?
Just thought i'd pop in to say hello and well done.
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