OK.  I am still planning on moving my blog.  This new format is driving me nuts.  Why couldn't they just leave things alone?

 

Hmm.  Here is an interesting development.  If you recall, I predicted just about the same thing back some months ago.  Now, the experts are saying that they are reducing their estimate of how many tropical cyclones are expected to form in the Atlantic basin.  I rather thought that the estimates made last winter were too high. 

 

Now, I don't want to seem like I am boasting, or anything.  Just, the media really got carried away.  For some reason, people think that just because the weather or climate acts one way one year, it will do the same thing the next year, or next decade, or even next century.  It is really a lot more complex than that.  Last year was probably an anomaly, not something that should be expected to be repeated.  People also forget that just because some weather has not happened in the last 20 years doesn't mean that it won't happen again.

 

I'm keeping this post short, because typing this in under the new format is driving me nuts.

 

(Also, I am trying to write this during lab, and students are coming and asking questions every few minutes.  What do we put in this blank?  I ask them what the lab manual says to measure and record.  They say X.  So, I tell them to write X in that blank.   Between silly questions and this new format that MSN Spaces has dumped on me, I am getting really frustrated!  And, it is getting me even more determined to move my space.)

 

-Astroprof