Overnight a new tropical depression got its act together, pulled in tighter and became our next hurricane, Katia. The storm is still way out in the Atlantic, but it’s moving very fast and predicted to become a major hurricane by Sunday, as seen on the 5-day probability cone: Compare this to the 5-day cone from […]
That’s the latest from the National Hurricane Center. The yellow area is a tropical wave that appeared tonight and has less than a 20% probability of becoming a tropical storm. The red area is a storm that has a greater than 50% probability of becoming a tropical depression either tonight or tomorrow. On top of […]
And thank God. After tonight all the states will be counted. This has been a long primary season, but that’s due in a large part to this new crazy schedule. That’s also why I supported sanctions against Florida and Michigan. Without sanctions for violating the timing rule, we could end up with our 2012 primaries […]
Oh to be in the U.K.: Tony Blair has indicated that Gordon Brown is likely to replace him as Prime Minister within a matter of weeks. “Within the next few weeks I won’t be Prime Minister of this country. In all probability, a Scot will become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,” Mr Blair told […]