Photographer states :: Every cloud has a silver lining, or so they say. (They must all be mad) This split of land was created yesterday by the flood-water rushing down the gorge. It even managed to stick a couple of trees on it, although it doesn't seem to have grasped the need to put their roots underground. Later we will have a new piece of beach on which to walk. Maybe "they" aren't that mad after all. I just don't see them cleaning the mud out of my living room. 
Photographer states :: My living room is on the first floor of my house as we have a garage at ground level. At the back we have an enclosed yard at first floor level and behind that a garden at second floor level. It come from living on the edge of a mountain. On Saturday morning, in the wee small hours, it rained. Boy did it rain! The back yard filled in about ten minutes and then poured mud and water through the living room. Don't even ask about the basement.
Photographer states :: When I uploaded the first picture taken in my living-room I said that this site would probably reject it because it was not an outside shot. I guess that I was wrong. The site accepts weather related pictures whether they are outside or inside, provided the weather predominates the image! Mea culpa. Not that I am very often correct anyway. This picture is very much an outside shot of the results of the same storm. It is as well that the replacement bridge was repaired only a couple of months ago or nobody would reach Acroyarli (the next village down the road).
Photographer states :: The next morning (today) it was back to normal Greek weather as though nothing had happened. Except for the cars washed away, collapsed walls, ruined roads, and people whose houses were now full of mud. On the bright side: it is at least clean mud.
October 23, 2006. 3:00 PMAntarcticaThe heat over this ice continent is picking up quickly (click on). It's rather surprising actually. There are many sites near zero or warmer than zero Celcius. In the animation it is hard to find a deeply frigid area between the hours of 6AM and 9AM. Even Vostok is moving to a warmer air temperature of 53 degrees C. Heck. I am not optimistic. It looks as though the wonderfully cold temperatures of the Fall and Winter will be for not. But, better to have recovered at least that much in the face of this newly stark reality.
The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
Scott Base
Some cloud
-18.0°
Updated Tuesday 24 Oct 3:15AM
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
41 °F / 5 °C
Overcast
Humidity:
81%
Dew Point:
36 °F / 2 °C
Wind:
10 mph / 17 km/h from the NNW
Pressure:
29.42 in / 996 hPa
Windchill:
35 °F / 2 °C
Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds:
Mostly Cloudy 300 ft / 91 m
Overcast 2600 ft / 792 m
(Above Ground Level)
This is the Enhanced Infrared satelitte of UNISYS. The chronic vortex over the Gulf of Mexico last week has worked up enough moisture content to generate a the storm off the west coast of Mexico. Hurricane Paul is a Cat 2 so far (click on and page down). It's the only storm noted in the north and west hemisphere today. There is a cold air mass which has decended from the Arctic Circle over the North American continent with noted absence of moisture off shore of both coasts below 36 N Latitude. There are drought conditions over the continent.
