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Yesterday's issue of Science is a special hydrogen fueled issue, which
may be of interest to those thinking about energy futures.
The Science section of today's N Y Times notes that hurricane
forecasters don't have an explanation for what happened yesterday in
Florida.
> Yesterday morning, the center had predicted that the storm
> would strike Florida as a Category 2. But then something
> happened over the Gulf of Mexico 100 miles south of Fort
> Myers, Fla., Dr. Beven said - possibly some extra pulse
> of energy from warm gulf waters, some shift in winds that
> might otherwise hinder the storm, or some chaotic change
> in the walls of clouds around its eye.
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> The changes occurred at a pace rarely seen in such giant
> swirling storms. The forecast at 11 A.M. was for the storm
> to strike Florida with winds of 100 miles an hour. By 2
> p.m., the fresh forecast put the anticipated winds at
> landfall at 125 miles an hour. By 3:50 p.m., the storm's
> tightly wound core was shredding Florida's west coast with
> sustained winds of 145 miles an hour, just 10 miles an hour
> below that of a Category 5 storm, the most destructive.
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