UK forecasts are for "much warmer" weather.

The last disaster or two to hit the SW North Atlantic followed a period
of cold weather here giving place to unusually warm weather.

The forecast, in all fairness, is not for exceptional warmth but I
would set the alarm bells ringing.

(Anything to keep the monkey awake.)

Weatherlawyer wrote:
UK forecasts are for "much warmer" weather.

The last disaster or two to hit the SW North Atlantic followed a period
of cold weather here giving place to unusually warm weather.

The forecast, in all fairness, is not for exceptional warmth but I
would set the alarm bells ringing.

(Anything to keep the monkey awake.)

Lucky you:

MEXICO CITY, Oct. 1

The Santa Ana volcano, El Salvador's largest, erupted on Saturday after
being dormant for more than a century, leaving at least two dead and
forcing more than 2,000 others to flee.

Ilamatepec, 66 kilometers west of the capital, San Salvador, started to
belch out thick plumes of ash more than 15 kilometers into the sky on
Saturday morning.

Soon after the volcano began casting hot rocks and ash from its crater,
military emergency sirens signalled an immediate area evacuation of the
hamlets in the coffee growing area, where some 20,000 people live.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_3574692.htm

Then there's is this:

FUZHOU, Oct. 2 (Xinhuanet) -- More than 210,000 people off shore in
east China's Fujian Province have been evacuated Sunday before the
coming of Typhoon Longwang. Local governments are transferring people
on the low lands of the coastal region. They were moved from boats and
aquiculture farms in Ningde, Fuzhou, Putian, Quanzhou, Xiamen and
Zhangzhou.

Typhoon Longwang, the Chinese name for a legendary dragon king which
takes care of the world's rain, has slammed into Taiwan Sunday morning.
The typhoon is moving towards Fujian at a speed of 25 kilometers an
hour and is expected to reach the province on Sunday night. It might
cause serious impact to the province, according to the local
meteorological bureau.

I wonder why they waited so long? They aren't FEMA.

Weatherlawyer wrote:

FUZHOU, Oct. 2 (Xinhuanet) -- More than 210,000 people off shore in
east China's Fujian Province have been evacuated Sunday before the
coming of Typhoon Longwang. Local governments are transferring people
on the low lands of the coastal region. They were moved from boats and
aquiculture farms in Ningde, Fuzhou, Putian, Quanzhou, Xiamen and
Zhangzhou.

The BBC has produced a great deal of coverage of the recent storms in
the USA...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/...na/default.stm
.... making it look like other parts of the world have not also been hit
by similar devastation.

FUZHOU, Oct. 2 (Xinhuanet) -- More than 210,000 people off shore
in east China's Fujian Province have been evacuated Sunday before
the coming of Typhoon Longwang.

If you're gonna get screwed by a Typhoon, might as well call it
LongWang.

Weather Man wrote:

If you're gonna get screwed by a Typhoon, might as well call it
LongWang.

Interesting concept that the name of something is related to the havoc
it causes.

Any guesses why all the "members" of Microsoft groups in the USA are
named after flying lizards?

(Don't take it personally, the Bharatians that can scrape through the
..net tend to call themselves large scorpions. So it's not a racial
thing.)

Moving on; the devastation from the Asian subcontinet seems to relate
the excesses of meteorology to the scatology of seismology fairly
recently:

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake has jolted south Asia on Saturday, and
thousands are feared dead or injured across Pakistan, Afghanistan and
India.

Part of a 10-storey apartment building collapsed in Pakistan's capital,
Islamabad, and dozens of people were feared trapped in the rubble.

Pakistan's private television news station, Geo, said it had received
unconfirmed reports that at least 25 people had died in the
Pakistan-controlled part of Kashmir, where dozens of homes, schools,
mosques and government offices were damaged.

http://channels.aolsvc.co.uk/news/ar...08024209990001

Or do I mean eschatology?

Put it this way; the most dangerous country in the world has a
leadership selection system that would put a Republican idiot in the
Whitehouse in preference to a clever, manipulative, Democrat sleaseball
-no matter what the cost.

Already he has undone something like 100 years of goodwill and je ne
sais quoi. And that's just with God.

Millions depend on the relief efforts put out by the USA. Have they got
a hope, now?

Now see what you have done, Stanley!
Mm-Mm!!

That's another fine mess...