Rodney Blackall wrote:

Date: 03 Jul 2008 1510
Subject: The Met Office Monthly Tropical Cyclone Summary

To: Readers of the Met Office Monthly Summary of Tropical Cyclone
Activity and Forecasts.

The June 2008 edition of this publication has just been released
and is available on the Met Office World Wide Web site
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk under the menu "Weather/World Weather" or go
direct to
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...2008/june.html.

This month's publication contains a preliminary summary of the 2007-8
southern hemisphere season.

Julian Heming Tropical Prediction Scientist
Met Office FitzRoy Road Exeter Devon EX1 3PB United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1392 884494 Fax: +44 (0)1392 885681

Rodney Blackall (retired meteorologist)(BSc, FRMetS, MRI)
Buckingham.

Yet more evidence, if evidence were required, that there is a dearth
of these things at the height of the tornado season.

In keeping with the weather spells of late, I might point out to the
chances of records being viable much past very recent history are not
good. The path of one of these things though precipitant, is the only
place likely to receive any rain in quite a large area.

It's the same with the fall out under these roll clouds, the station
only has to be a few feet out with summer's torrents and the historian
might get the impression that 1066 and all that was a very dry year.

So too with a climatologist's take on the cyclones. They are
considered warm weather features -hence a pointer towards glowballs.
But just a few miles away from where the weather is about 5 degrees
above normal, thousands of tons of snow and hail is falling. For a Cat
2 that would be millions of tons.