Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Meteorology / August 2005

Any one with web sites that are reporting damage to the greater New
Orleans area?

My prediction was based on simple math. Global Warming is increasing
and thus the Gulf water region builds up alot of heat every summer.
This heat energy needs to be released or as thermodynamics says: moves
from hot region to cooler region and the case here is Florida. So as we

The levees are breached at the 17th Street Canal
and in the west near Kenner...the waters are still
rising.
http://www.ansaman.com/katrina.html

With reference to:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1552092,00.html
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v436/n7053/full/436897a.html
I'd like to invite those on both sides of the debate to offer whatever

I just don't get it. New Orleans should have been better prepared...why they
are putting people in a building which was only built for Cat 3 is beyond
me.
Also...the levees (sp) are only built for Cat 3...an official from the

Look at it's shadown off to the right!
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/n/581/2N177950967EFFADNDP0645R0M1.JPG

the light over london 2 nights ago was really amazing - in particular,
after looking at some photos i took of the phenomenon, i noticed a band
of green colour in the clouds, something i've never seen before.  did
anyone else see this or does anyone know what might have caused it?

Not quite meteorology, but have been trying to find my local time at home,
i.e. White Cliffs, NSW, Australia, 143.1°E, 30.9°S.  Given 15 degrees per
hour from Greenwich, Australian Eastern Standard Time should centre on 150
East, making us 28 minutes later.  Is that about right?

Landfall 75 miles westward. Look for lots of damage and causualties.

I need some help. It appears that the National Hurricane Center is not
updating information on hurricane Katrina, at least I am not finding the
information.
Does any one know a web site that is updating barometric pressure on

From:   mears@remss.com
Subject: Re: Fwd: TLT Same format as UAH?
Date: August 25, 2005 11:06:21 AM PDT
To:   rcoppock@XXXXX, brewer@remss.com

Over the last 10 or 15 years research has made several things pretty clear.
1) the earth's climate can change much more rapidly than previously
envisioned (with serious reductions in food productivity etc), real
potentials for problems developing over a few decades that make the ...

I have searched a lot in the internet about sources for historical
weather data.
I have found www.wunderground.com, which provides a great service and
seems to be what I was looking for.

I am fairly certain that this isn't the forum in which to ask this
question, and for that I apologize - however, I wasn't able to find a
better fit in any of my searches - I'm interested in a source to find
weather conditions over the last several years - I am familiar with

The MSU and weather balloon controversies are over.
The ground data, data I have presented here monthly
for the the last three years, were the most accurate
all along.  It looks like the models win one too.