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Google News’ Lead Story “It was like Iraq — the front line,” one man told NY1, the city’s all-news television station. Iraq? No even worse – Kansas “It felt like the Wizard of Oz,” a woman told the station.

Britain facing a new wave of terrorist attacks, MI5 warns Britain is facing a wave of terrorist attacks on two fronts from a new generation of al-Qaeda extremists and Irish Republican militants who could strike on the mainland, the head … Continue reading →

Word out of the Atlantic : Igor and Julia left Africa together, but Igor took off ahead trying to attract all the attention for himself. If that wasn’t bad enough, apparently Igor also used up all the warm water and … Continue reading →

The press discovered this summer that Moscow makes up a good 90% of the planet. At least it did for a few weeks, while it was hot.

Google Docs has limits on spreadsheet size, and my spreadsheet ends on September 15. (Lame excuse, I know.)

From CSU, via Andy Revkin’s Blog With Karl becoming a hurricane, we have three hurricanes at the same time. This is a pretty rare occurrence. The only other years that this has occurred are 1893, 1926, 1950, 1961, 1967, 1980, … Continue reading →

The Arctic ice extent graphs are bouncing around, as Julienne mentioned yesterday. Competing factors of wind compaction and freeze-up cause the extent numbers to vary a little from day to day. There has been a lot of wind over the … Continue reading →

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/NWS-TPC-5.pdf The peaks occurred in the 1930s and 1960s.

According to Kerry Emanuel : “Most of the models suggest that the more powerful storms become more numerous.”

Accuweather reports : At 5 a.m. Wednesday, Hurricane Julia was upgraded to a Category 4 storm, while her brother, Hurricane Igor, maintained his Category 4 status. In doing so, Julia also became the strongest hurricane on record so far east. … Continue reading →