Re: [OM] OT: Hurricane??

[John Hudson]

We had pondered going to the Azores in late February for several weeks 
in preference to shovelling snow in eastern Canada. Mainland Portugal 
looks a safer bet !
jh

On 1/15/2016 10:47 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
>       Doubtful.  We've been having our own odd tropical cyclone weather this 
> past season with one almost making landfall at Los Angeles and the first 
> category 5 eastern Pacific storm to make landfall.
>
>       Hurricane Alex is a real oddity, and it's getting odditier and odditier.  
> The NHC 0700 EST forecast now shows that it will get a few hundred miles 
> southeast of Greenland and then make a sharp turn to the west towards 
> Newfoundland, crossing the mouth of the Davis Strait and the Labrador Sea as a 
> post-tropical category 1 storm.
>
> > ..... of any concern to the good folk of Arizona :-)
> >
> > jh
> >
> >
> >
> > On 1/14/2016 8:38 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
> > >        Yes, we have a hurricane in January.  Hurricane Alex is presently
> > > a category 1 storm 300 miles south of the Azores, moving northward.  Looks
> > > like it will make landfall on the south end of Greenland over the weekend.
> > >
> > >        This is the first hurricane to develop in January since 1938.
> > >
> > >        Weird.
> > >
> > >        And we have a nor-easter developing for this coming weekend.
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
>       - Hunter S. Thompson
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