URL: Sent by Member Sharon Kimbleton: http://www.cnn.com/NATURE/9903/25/heat.island.enn/ "A National Aeronautics and Space Administration-sponsored study in Atlanta has found that the swapping of trees and other vegetation for heat-absorbing asphalt, concrete and rooftops has created an urban heat island that can generate its own winds and thunderstorms, warm the city well into the night and dramatically increase the production of harmful ground-level ozone." URL: Sent by Member Jesse Ferrell: http://www.intellicast.com/drdew/library/tornado_lanina_199903/ "La Nina late winters and springs, historically have brought some of the worst tornado outbreaks. Tornadoes in La Nina years tend to be more deadly too. Ironically Today's operational medium range forecast (MRF) prognosis for 10 day or 240 hours is showing a pattern that could produce an outbreak of severe weather close to the 25th anniversary of the Super-Outbreak of '74." -- ============================================================== Jesse Ferrell - Meteorologist/Web Dev. - j{at}weatherwatchers.org Central Atlantic Storm Investigators - www.weatherwatchers.org "Andy Warhol had it wrong, Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes *and* have their own Web page." --William Shatner || ICQ No. 136832 ||