On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:30:34 -0700, in a place far, far away, Tudor
Hughes made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such
a way as to indicate that:

On Aug 23, 12:47 am, "Jonathan" wrote:
...for an Atlantic landfalling hurricane.

And btw, coming a good month earlier than most of the competition.

"Hurricane Dean made its first landfall around 3:30 am (Central Time)
Tuesday with 165 mile per hour winds near Costa Maya, Mexico.
It is the first landfalling category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic basin
since Hurricane Andrew struck South Florida in 1992.
Its pressure of 906 millibars is the third lowest pressure at landfall
behind the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane in the Florida Keys and
Hurricane Gilbert in 1988 in Cancun, Mexico."http://www.weather.com/newscenter/tropical/?from=wxcenter_news

Just another global warming 'anecdote' that seems to happen
all too regularly these days.

Strongest Atlantic Hurricanes on Record

Wilma 882 mb Oct, 2005

Gilbert 888mb Sep, 1988

Florida Keys 892 mb Sep,1935

Allen 899 mb Oct, 1998

Mitch 905mb Oct, 1969

Camille 909 mb Aug, 1969

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/reports/mitch/mitch.html

I don't see how one could deduce Global Warming, or any
other type of climate change, from those data.

It requires one to be an illogical loon, like Jonathan.