Hurricane Chris...

Yesterday I got a brief hint of what it can look like in your area, when a sudden thunderstorm hit here. It was so strong winds that the sea was flattened!

For all the weather junkies here, you might not be aware that NOAA & NHC utilize a 'consensus' model to form what some wags term the 'Cone of Death'--the National Hurricane Center's anticipated stormtrack-- made up of quite a few other models seen in the link below.

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at200603_model.html

If memory serves, the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory ( GFDL ) model out of Princeton did a yeoman's job during last year's busy season in proferring the best SWAG ( that's Scientific Wild @ss Guess).

Stay safe.

Maybe, but weather experts say this is still within normal variations over long cycles. But politicians are using it to impose all sorts of taxes and regulations, and that is having an effect on us....

I'm of the opinion that Global Warming is a myth. Check out the book "State Of Fear" by Micheal Crichton, really interesting read backed up by lotsa' documentation.

Receding polar icecaps, rising oceans, storm surges, bizarre global weather systems....
Yup, your right, back to science class

I think it is real, but the reason why, is a myth. They say instaed that vulcanos are causing more carbon oxide in a couple of days than all cars in a couple of years, or something like that. Also forest fires and other natural sources can change the climate a lot more than we do.

This has gone forth and back during thousands and millions of years and we have had hot periods as well as glacial long before the industrialism.

Still, we should of course not create more pollution than necessary, since there are more direct health hazards than the global warming to consider.

hm...
weather is a hard thing, we had almost 35°C here for some days, which is nothing to peps of the us - but its too much for some times.

but the last 2 days we had little thunderstorms and rain - it flooded some cellars around here and some flashes hit buildings, but i think nobody was killed...

i made some pictures, but i can't find em now...

I took another picture 20 minutes after the one above, what a difference!

Lars-- what is that castle-looking thing across the water in your photos?

This is an old fortress to protect Stockholm, built in 1540. It was extended in mid 1700, just after my house was built, and got it´s present look in 1863. Eventhough the walls are made out of 2 meter granite, already in 1872 the new canons with rifled pipes were able to shoot a hole through when they tested it. Today it is a museum.

I was just thinking that... Lars has a pretty nice little spot for himself there.

hm..
take a look at googleEarth, and you know where hes living
very nice neighborhood Lars

*g*

I love Michael Crichton's books. However, with 2 weeks of 100F-plus temperatures here in California, Global Warming is a reality.

Thanks for the info regarding your neighborhood-- nice place.

Well, Lars, in an amazing coincidence, we had the same problem over here in the U.S. at roughly the same time.
They started building Fort Jefferson ( about 70 miles off Key West) in 1846 with 8-foot thick walls, but quit construction in 1862 due to the new rifled weaponry of our Civil War period.

All this pales into insignificance, however, when I see that your house was built before there even was a United States!

Sverige!