HI Mark,   
      
   On Mon 2011-Aug-15 20:06, Mark Hofmann (1:261/1304) wrote to Richard Webb:   
      
   RW> We've been a bit cooler here last few   
   RW> days though, so maybe that's going to help things out a bit.   
      
   MH> I'm going to go on the record with the opposite forecast.. :)      
      
   MH> The strengthening La Nina tends to minimize east coast hurricanes.    
   MH> It also has the tendancy to give us very snowy winters.  The last   
   MH> strong La Nina winter gave us (3) blizzards.  This was just two   
   MH> years ago.     
      
   You could well be right.  Very very strange stuff, but I've   
   been threatening to turn off the darned air conditioning and open windows at   
   night it's been so darned nice around here.   
   Only reason I don't is the humidity and Kathy's breathing   
   difficulties, because if we're on that line humidity or temp wise she wakes up   
   in the night coughing and gasping, where   
   if I just spin the dreaded watt/hourr meter on the back of   
   the house she sleeps good.  I sure like good fresh air for   
   sleeping though.   
      
   Looks like Gert's going to blow herself out over open waters without getting   
   past tropical storm strength which lends   
   even more to your theory on that one I think, they seem to   
   be consistently doing that this year.  I note a lot of the   
   cruisers I work with are keeping the boat tied up at the   
   dock wherever they've landed most recently.  I don't think   
   I've seen one of them file a shiptrak report since last   
   Friday.   
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
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