960 mb now and rising. Time for a rethink about how these things
behave. It is something to do with the acoustics and the depths of the
relatively shallow waters. Without looking at just how deep the deeps
are on these courses. And the relationship with depth to storm
pressures.

Or maybe the frequencies likely to be obtained before reverberation
impacts the waves of whatever it is involved.

Looking at the sea floor of the Atlantic; it appears that there are
ridges and troughs in the floor that run parallel from the south coast
of Iceland in almost perfectly straight lines to the centre of
Newfoundland (south of the Strait of Belle Isle) and on past Nova
Scotia to Virginia and the Carolinas.

Well; not really.
The stretch doesn't seem to extend much past the bottom of Greenland.
But it is an interesting area:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl...8968/img/1.jpg

Perhaps it may explain certain behavioural traits. If it extended as
far as the southern 'States, perhaps the weather we know and love
would be entirely changed and there be no chance of the Arctic ever
recooling?

Meanwhile it seems that pressures in that Low are approaching levels
that will allow it to move north.

Which of course further highlights the questions about which comes
first:
Movement or pressure change; Cause and effect.

OT for the most part
The financial crisis:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SIHw7C73s3E
.....is going to have an unfortunate impact on international services
that have served mankind faithfully for decades.

However...
It will be a terrible shame if the stuff available he
http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/i...008psguide.pdf
....is curtailed in any way.

Knowing a little bit of human behaviour, I can only forecast that it
will -in the worst imaginable and most easily avoidable way and at the
most inopportune time possible.

Let's hear it for the Chimpanzee.

This all started with the deregulation of a B movie star whose legacy
was a film about a chimpanzee and massive deregulation in both the
petrol chemical industries (think Donald Rumsfeld and Aspartame) and
the economy.

How exquisitely whatzit!
The mills of god's bio-chemicals grind slow...
but they grind fine.