Pat Weakening, 98, 99!

Pat has recently weakened from a category 4 (AUS) to a category 3 (AUS). 98 is almost a cyclone... It will be named Rene. 99 is predicted to form by Sunday.

In other subjects... School is still boring as always,

2 new invests

More tropical activity may be around the corner as 91S.INVEST and 92P.INVEST have formed near Australia.

Pacific Extratropical Storm Five Update!

We're getting the rain from it!!! Just 5 minutes ago I heard it on my window!

Powerful Aftershocks

Yes, from the Haiti earthquake. There have been many aftershocks since the earthquake, OVER 25! Many of the aftershocks were small, but seismologists warn people in the area to be prepared, because "the Earth may shake at anytime". Some of the first aftershocks ranked at over 5.0 on the Richter Scale!

Pacific Extratropical Storm Five and Six

Five did not bring us any rain but from reports in California, it brought heavy rain and thunderstorms to most of California. Six has begun a rapid intensification within the past 6 hours, which may, well... what I mean is it WILL, bring rain to parts of the West Coast.

7.0 Major earthquake in Haiti

It was triggered of the coast of Haiti yesterday (UTC time) at 21:53:09. Officials have put out tsunami warnings for the area. Aftershocks may follow.

More information here

Oh by the way

Happy new year!!!

Edzani weakens!

*special effects - long "nooo!"*

Lately, nothing has been really active. The strong Edzani has! It was teh first South Indian cyclone to reach Very Intense Tropical Cyclone status since Cyclone Juliet in 2004! Just a few hours ago, it became extratropical.

Invest 99 | School

Invest 99 is up and running... Errr... I don't know.

We got school e-mails today, and I sent some e-mails. That will be all.

Dust devils

They are awesome. I made a category system for them

E - unorganized

D - Rotation

C - At least 2 rotations

B - At least 5 seconds in the C stage

A - Strong

They earn a designation at first... Until the B stage. Then they earn a sequencial greek letter.

These two are

Category B - Zeta

and well... I forgot the other one...

The one (single) in the image on the right is category A Sigma.

These images were on my trip back from California.

I also got this cool iridescence image.

Sadly, I have never gotten upclose and personal to a dust devil... With a camera at least...

I want to do that soon. Go out to the fields and wait... with a camera and snacks. Designate them, and get images of [almost] everyone...

I'll update you if I ever do that. For now...

BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE