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.