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A tropical storm that became a hurricane off the North Carolina coast is rapidly gaining strength. As of yesterday the Hurricane was at sea a few hundred miles off the Canadian coastline headed northeast. It's winds increased from 110 to over 120mph durring the day.

This sets a new record as the most northerly formed hurricane on record. This (theorised) the result of the waters in the area being 5*F above normal temps. Interesting......

It should be interesting to see how much of this storm makes it to the Britsh Isles. The last one (that I recall) that made it was Cleo (in 1966)which had disintegrated to depression level.

Frank
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"The luxury of not getting involved departed with the last lifeboat Skipper..."

` If you have a fast enough connection, check out this satellite video of Alex.
vortex.plymouth.edu/atl_sat.mpg link opens default .mpg player

` Plymouth State has a good Tropical Weather section.
vortex.plymouth.edu/tropical.html

` I feared that this one would go N/NW and end up hitting New England, like The Great New England Hurricane of 1938. That one ended up in upstate New York, and into Canada!
` Alex now looks like it might run due East.
` The weather gets more interesting every year.
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My mother was in Old Saybrook when the "38" storm hit. We almost lost one of my aunt's (who was an infant) when a tree fell through the roof onto the bed she was lying on momments before.

Frank
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"The luxury of not getting involved departed with the last lifeboat Skipper..."