If you haven't already noticed, there is now an About section on the blog, as well as a Coming Soon section. The weather headlines are below, followed by the weather for next week.
Oil Spill In Australia
Authorities declared a disaster zone Friday along a stretch of some of Australia's most popular beaches after tons of fuel oil that leaked from a cargo ship blackened the creamy white sand for miles.
The National Parks at Moreton and Bribie islands just north of the state capital of Brisbane were hardest hit by oil spilled Wednesday from the container ship Pacific Adventurer, and oil washed ashore in pockets along the Sunshine Coast.
Swire Shipping Ltd., the Hong Kong-registered ship's owner, said containers of fertilizer had slipped from the ship's deck as it rocked in rough seas, ripping a hole in a fuel tank and spilling more than 11,000 gallons (42,500 liters) of heavy fuel oil into the sea. Later, the company said an inspection of the hull led it to conclude the amount of spilled oil was "significantly more" than that, but did not give a figure.
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Flood Safety Awareness Week Is March 16-20, 2009
The Weather Next Week
The weather next week should be mostly sunny and warm, with the possibilty of rain on Tuesday. Highs will be in the low to mid 80s, and high 70s after a cold front moves through on Tuesday. Lows will be in the low to high 50s, and maybe low to mid 60s.
Something I Thought I Should Mention
As Hurricane Season draws closer, only three-and-a-half months away, I wanted to give some information that hopefully you will all enjoy, and that might help make people more aware.....
Back in December, I was given a tour of the Aircraft Operations Center's hanger and got to tour one of the Hurricane Hunter planes, "Miss Piggy". The AOC is at Macdill AFB, not to be confused with the National Hurricane Center.
The Hurricane Hunters are based at Macdill, and apart from flying through hurricanes, they also go on reseach flights all over the world. In fact, the meteorologist who gave me the tour was recently in Alaska for 27 days. They were trying to estimate the wind speed at the sea surface based on the roughness of the ocean waves. They cooridinated the flight with satellites that were overhead at the time. Some of the winds they measured were just below hurricane force, so we're talking some major wind!
I would have posted about the tour back in December, but I really hadn't gotten into blogging then.
Pictures are at the end of the post. (Each Image Links To Larger Version)
Also, something I found last night on Yahoo! Sports that some of you might find funny.
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