Category Archives: weather

– 8 Centrigrade in Luxembourg

February 1, 2012 – 5:57 am

Last evening Madame l’Ambassador drove from Oxford to Luxembourg in frigid temperature. The interior of the Porsche Boxster was well-heated and I dozed off several times in the passenger seat. Upon waking each time I asked, if she wanted me to drive. Thankfully Madame l’Ambassador refused every offer, as the Porsche ate the motorways of […]

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Worse Than A Bad Hand

November 14, 2011 – 7:15 am

The epic monsoon floods on 2011 are slowly receding from the record highwater marks throughout the country. Hundreds of Thai citizens have perished from the inundation. Industry and agriculture have suffered from the disruption of the infrastructure. Inner Bangkok escaped the catastrophe as promised by the government, but the outskirts joined the Central Thailand underwater. […]

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The Fury of the Unnature

August 31, 2011 – 9:08 am

I had expected my flight from Tokyo to JFK to be delayed by the storm. I landed ahead of schedule. The A train was running on time. The sky was beautiful. Walking down my street from the subway station, I saw little sign of the storm’s passing. I thought New York had been lucky, for […]

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Arrigato Irene

August 27, 2011 – 9:39 pm

Autumn is not known for storms blowing up the Eastern Seaboard, but in late october 1991 a tempestuous Nor’easter combined with a cyclone off the the Maritime Provinces and a sputtering hurricane. This unusual triad formed what is now known as the Halloween Storm or the Perfect Storm. The latter title was made famous by […]

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Never No Hotter

July 25, 2011 – 9:01 am

Hottest temperature ever recorded on the surface of this planet was 57.8 °C (136 °F) at Al ‘Aziziyah, Libya on September 9, 1922 Having been in 117 F, I can’t imagine how much hotter is 136 F. Damn hot.

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