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Oh dear... as has been discussed many times before there is absolutely no link between summer weather and what the winter will be like. Btw what record low temps are you talking about? You mean, the coldest night time temps since last summer?

Yes Accuweather mention that; http://www.accuweather.com/news-top-headli...&traveler=0

Humberto was the fastest developing storm in recorded history, amazing! This taken from TWO WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY FROM THE LATEST DISCUSSION; "BASED ON OPERATIONAL ESTIMATES...HUMBERTO STRENGTHENED FROM A 30 KT DEPRESSION AT 15Z YESTERDAY TO A 75 KT HURRICANE AT 09Z THIS MORNING...AN INCREASE OF 45 KT IN 18 HOURS. TO PUT THIS DEVELOPMENT IN PERSPECTIVE...NO TROPICAL CYCLONE IN THE HISTORICAL RECORD HAS EVER REACHED THIS INTENSITY AT A FASTER RATE NEAR LANDFALL. IT WOULD BE NICE TO KNOW...SOMEDAY...WHY THIS HAPPENED"

The death toll from hurricane Felix has risen to 100; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6982722.stm

Re the earlier debate about whether felix broke the record for 2 cat5's hitting land in one season. Accuweather say it's the first time it's happened in recorded history so I think the BBC may have made a mistake; http://www.accuweather.com/news-top-headli...&traveler=0 Besides, in 1886 did they even have the equipment to measure if a hrricane was a cat 5 or not?

Wow, unbelievable! Chicago and that general area had some amzing storms last week, loads of flooding, tornadoes and severe wind gusts; http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294591,00.html

I was just listening to the jamaican radio and they said Dean is now a category 3, they seemed to be quoting an NHC forecast. Have they made a mistake or has Dean really been downgraded to cat3?

Great close-up high res pic of dean's eye here; http://www.nowpublic.com/more-pics-hurrica...-crew-members-1

He was giving out about how the news station said that "because it was heading more southerly things would be much better for jamaica" which isn't really true as the strongest winds are on the northern side of the eye

Oh dear, I was just listening to jamaican radio and they were saying that things were looking up as the "eye wont be passing over them", they then said "the eye is the worst part". Someone should let them know the worst is actually north of the eye wall and will pass right over them

Thanks for the link, watching it now. Out of interest who runs that site, do they stream through the night? They're talking a lot of sense about how the jamaican people don't seem to realise the threat they face from Dean because their media isn't getting fussed about it

For anyone interested in following Dean; http://www.accuweather.com/news-top-headli...&traveler=0 Is it looking more likely now that it will hit texas? They really don't need any more rain this Summer, especially after TS Erin.

Top post, concise and very nicely explained for learners like me

I came across this link and ,to me, (if i'm reading it right!) this year has already equalled the record minimumt?; http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IM...urrent.area.jpg It comes from the NSIDC, are they the most accurate source? I ask because someone above said 2002 was the record minimum but the chart makes it look like 2006 was.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/08/nyregion...amp;oref=slogin

I agree and if you look at the footage(from bangor aswell) the lights twinkle very vividly with great clarity, a candle in a balloon wouldn't be so bright nor so vivid and be seen so far away.

The footage in the video posted was not a poor shaky camera, it zoomed in quite well IMO but when they're so far away it would be hard to zoom in closer with an average camera; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDEWZq397Lc I'm not saying it's "aliens" but merely pointing out the footage wasn't bad.

Wow, they must have released a ton of them since they were seen across a massive area at random times, from Bristol, Shropshire, Brighton, Heathrow and London to name the few locations given by those who actually rang up radio 5 at around the same period in the late evening.

More discussion: http://theweatheroutlook.com/twocommunity/...ead/297322.aspx The reports are very widespread and are similar to what happened in bangor in May;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzwtSGhTV9o...ated&search

This page has a good clear webcam image of the sea today but it's very slow to update. This one is from Kerry (3webcams), look like the rain only just started there.

The ground has really dried up in the last week(around here anyway) so i dont think flooding will be too much of a problem, so far this summer we've avoided all of those flooding systems that affected the UK (except a flash flood event in south dublin in july) so we are lucky. Meteireann have taken away the "localised flooding" they had in their forecast earlier on;http://www.met.ie/

Pics and video from a uk storm chaser: http://theweatheroutlook.com/twocommunity/...ead/294596.aspx

Didn't drop below 40c in tenerife last night according to this: http://theweatheroutlook.com/twocommunity/...ead.aspx#290124 :blink:

I dont really see a problem with that, our electricity comes from finite resources which are running out so what's wrong with saving some? They dont even mention gw, just the energy crisis so what exactly do you hate about it, they're not making any profit either? A black screen does use less power than a white screen and many people prefer a darker screen if they're in front of a bright monitor for hours on end.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/07/26...e.ap/index.html