“NSIDC’s Web site is currently unavailable because of severe weather and flooding. We expect to be online again this Monday, 16 September, around noon (USA Mountain Time). We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.”
Hehe – i guess there’s a message from them in that!
It’s not hard to see why that place floods: the setup is like London, where a city has grown around a river-crossing because of it’s military and commercial importance. Wuchang, Hanyang and Hankow seem to be parts of the city of Hubei, built where the river narrows from 1.2 miles wide down to 0.67 miles wide – a bottle neck.
Now that was a flood.
Steve, Did you notice NSIDC website status:
“NSIDC’s Web site is currently unavailable because of severe weather and flooding. We expect to be online again this Monday, 16 September, around noon (USA Mountain Time). We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.”
Hehe – i guess there’s a message from them in that!
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/S_stddev_timeseries.png
It’s not hard to see why that place floods: the setup is like London, where a city has grown around a river-crossing because of it’s military and commercial importance. Wuchang, Hanyang and Hankow seem to be parts of the city of Hubei, built where the river narrows from 1.2 miles wide down to 0.67 miles wide – a bottle neck.