Tropical Storm Beryl has formed off the US coast in the Atlantic ocean and is expected to head up past New England, where there is an unusual mass of warm ocean water off the coast of Maine at this time, and then move on to Southern Canada. Unless Beryl changes its route, the storm will pass directly over the warm water mass, which will strengthen its force, possibly turning it into a hurricane, especially if it lingers in the area. Beryl could eventually travel to Europe, where it could also land as a hurricane. Right now it looks like Tropical Storm Beryl, presently off the US Atlantic Coast, will move up the coast and then out to sea off Newfoundland. But Unknowncountry.com is saying that there's a new factor present that just might change things, making this storm larger and longer-lived than anybody now expects. This has to do with the fact that over the weekend it will cross an unprecedented area of warm water off the New England coast--with possible consequences that has some scientists worried. A tropical storm should never have formed off the Carolina coast, let alone strengthened as it moved north into cooler waters.But that's what has happened, and it could be, if the storm gets large enough, it's still be intact when it reaches Europe. Could IRELAND experience a hurricane? In this world of rapid climate change, we shall see...