The Arctic Tropical Storm? Is that correct? Bill will be an extratropical depression when it passes the Arctic Circle?

...social gaming company Playfish (click title to entry - tahnk you) has an office in the Arctic Circle? According to Chief Operating Officer and co-founder Sebastien de Halleux, Norway, best known for ice hotels and the Northern Lights, is now home base for a cadre of social gaming experts. If you'd like to go off the grid for a while, and you're not afraid of the dark, Playfish happens to be hiring a web and graphics designer for its Tromso.


August 23, 2009
1330z
UNISYS Water Vapor GOES East Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)



The Arctic Circle is approximately 66° 33′ 39″ (or 66.56083°) north of the Equator.

"Bill" is expected to pass 60 degrees north as an Extratropical Depression on August 27, 2009 at 0600 gmt. As a side note, the first storm of the 2009 season was Tropical Depression One that lasted 30 hours between latitudes 37.30 north and 40.30 north. Something tells me that Arctic Ocean Ice and Extratropical Depressions don't mix well. Of course, according to the Republicans there is no such thing as Global Warming. Right. Sure. And I was born yesterday.