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2 Nov 05 Hello Yes, everything's a bit dead here. Stuff has happened (and in another sense, stuff has not happened). There are a few issues that need to be sorted out, and we're working on those right now. One way or another, I'm hopeful that Rising Slowly will re-emerge, blinking in the damp wintry sunlight, before too long... 10 Oct 05 Virginia lightning Here's a superb lightning shot snapped by sct3 and posted in the Rising Slowly Flickr pool. All the more superb given that it was taken by propping the camera on the steering wheel and doing a 45 second exposure... 10 Oct 05 Hundreds dead in Central America 617 Killed in Central America Rain, Floods: Guatemala has borne the brunt of heavy rains exacerbated by Hurricane Stan, which made landfall Tuesday on the Mexican Gulf Coast before quickly weakening to a tropical depression... 8 Oct 05 The Eye This hole in the sun is three times the size of Earth. And you thought we had big storms.... 7 Oct 05 WX weather app WX is a nice-looking weather monitoring app for Mac OS X. Sadly US-only, but at least it gets its data from the National Weather Service and not from CrappuWeather.... 7 Oct 05 Icon frenzy ... 3 Oct 05 What happens as London gets hotter? If global warming continues as expected, London's going to get somewhat warmer. What will that mean for Londoners?: Construction companies ... must take heed and ensure that designs for transport terminals incorporate design which will help flood water drain away quickly... 3 Oct 05 Eclipse pics The sky was completely overcast above Slowly HQ this morning, so no chance of me getting any eclipse-spotting done, let alone taking pics. Thankfully, other people did manage to get a view through the clouds... 30 Sep 05 Arctic ice disappearing The Arctic ice sheet is getting smaller. Worried yet? "September 2005 will set a new record minimum in the amount of Arctic sea ice cover," said Mark Serreze, of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Boulder, Colorado... 30 Sep 05 Eclipse coming on Monday This is what the view from London should be like A partial annular solar eclipse will be visible from the UK on Monday morning, round about rush hour. Annular means the Moon is a bit further away that usual, so its shadow falls on the Earth as a small circle than during a total eclipse... 30 Sep 05 What the hell is ball lightning, anyway? The short answer is: nobody really knows. Some say it is made of plasma, others that electromagnetics play a part. Spend 10 minutes Googling the subject, and all you get is conjecture and theory. Nobody really knows... 29 Sep 05 AccuWeather are foons You may recall coverage here about AccuWeather, the US commercial weather data provider, and Rick Santorum, a Senator who wants the government-funded National Weather Service to stop handing out competing data for free... 22 Sep 05 New approaches to storm tracking A bunch of scientists are working together on something called the Convective Storm Initiation Project, with the aim of building a better understanding of how storms develop. They have in mind storms like the one that flooded Boscastle just over a year ago, or the one that caused millions of pounds of damage in Birmingham in ... 22 Sep 05 More Rita Rita is now a cat 5 storm, and has become the third most powerful on record. Hurricane Rita blog, "tracking the storm's approach, landfall and aftermath." Hurricane Alley, including a nice world map of all current hurricanes or hurricane-force storms... 21 Sep 05 A cold winter coming? Various news reports in recent days speak of an exceptionally cold winter ahead, forcing excessive demand for fuel and therefore blackouts and sundry other depressing things. The Torygraph, for example: Forecasters are predicting unusually low temperatures and greater than average snowfall from December until the end of January and have sent out an official warning to utility firms...
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