A little weather news for global warming skeptics.
The
cattle are dropping dead by the thousands in
the dustbowl that used to be called Portugal
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1693179,00.html
You seldom
ever hear about snow in the goldfields in
Australia
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200507/s1408137.htm
Meanwhile, it's pushing 50 degrees C 120
degrees F over much of Southern California
http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050714/NEWS09/507140331/1006
Emily: A strong and
dangerous category 4
4:50 p.m. ET Sat.,Jul.16,2005
www.weather.com
With winds of 155 mph, Emily has beaten out Dennis for the honor of the strongest July hurricane on record in the Atlantic Basin. Emily remains a small but very strong and very dangerous major Category 4 hurricane. If the sustained wind were to increase 1 more mph, Emily would become a Category 5 hurricane.
Elsewhere in the tropical Atlantic, an area of
low pressure 650 miles east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands has some
potential to develop into a depression during the next day or so as it pushes
northwestward. Thunderstorms continue to fire in the vicinity of the low.
A powerful typhoon, Haitang, is moving west-northwest at 15 mph and is poised to
plow across Taiwan Sunday night and then into China Monday (eastern U.S. time).
With maximum sustained winds of 184 km/h (114 mph) and gusts of up to 227 km/h
(141 mph), Haitang is a dangerous Category 4 storm on the five-step storm scale
and capable of causing severe damage.
It is expected to strengthen further and become a maximum Category 5 storm on
Sunday.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/TP266302.htm