Richard Griffith wrote:
Dear All,

Just got back from holiday so playing catch up on some data - am I right in
thinking that the very warm, humid conditions on 21st were due to ex
Hurricane Gordon
Recorded a max of 28.7'C for the 21st.

I believe it starts he
In a related study, scientists from Goddard Space Flight Center fed
satellite data on the area and type of forest conversion in Mato Grosso
into computer models to predict the effect on climate. Leaving the
ground bare has the most significant influence, raising temperatures up
to 3 degrees Fahrenheit. Croplands have the second most significant
impact, followed by pastures
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/New...3?img_id=17404

But more images of Gordon crossing the Azores are on the same site ATM.

For an hurricane to cross the Azoes takes a fairly large degree of
imbalance in the WWWeather. But the prerogative that applies to British
water still stands as for the Northern water's cyclones that hit the
Hebrides and Southern Iceland regions:

When they remain on that side of the country and at that distance from
it, we in the southern latitues get fine weather. This scenario also
applied to cyclones off what I believe they used to call Trafalgar.
North of Biscay and south of the Hebrides we get significan rainfall.

The same goes for longitude. For example (IIRC) Rockall is good but
Shannon is bad. So it is a distance thingummie.