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Tiny pinpoint hurricane to be rated very high 

 If there is anything that needs physics in the weather biz, it is the rating of hurricanes.  It's all in the maximum wind speed.  It's like rating a light bulb by the centre speck temperature.This is going to be rated a 4 for a minute.  The warmie press will go nuts.  This will be their vindication of predicting an actual hurricane season.You can see that this speck

ROADSIDE FOSSILS: TRIASSIC PAPER CLAMS FROM PINE PASS 

Triassic Paper clams, Pardonet FormationIn the rugged foothills of Pine Pass, near the small northern British Columbia town of Chetwynd, the rocks tell a story from over 200 million years ago—a story written in shell just a short walk from the main road. Here, in outcrops of the Pardonet Formation, the remains of once-living bivalves called paper clams—or “flat clams”—paint a vivid