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WHY DO URP WORKER GO INTO PEOPLE'S LAND AND THIEF THEIR PRODUCE  LIKE YAM AND DONT EVEN PLANT IT BACK. PLEASE PEOPLE, YOU ARE GETTING PAID TO WORK NOT TO THIEF.

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If you want to see your shadow dissappear then keeping looking at your feet on Thursday 27 August 2009. Just watch out for lamposts!

Excerpt from 'Space News' - Dr. Shirin Haque, Astronomer, University of the West Indies.  

 

' On Thursday August 27, the sun will be directly overhead in Trinidad at 12.07 pm. It is interesting to watch your shadow disappear underneath you - Look out Peter Pan!

An Astronomer colleague of mine from Finland was photographing shadows enthusiastically in Trinidad when he visited and quipped he had never seen such short shadows! In Finland at 60 degrees North latitude, shadows are always much longer. The sun never passes directly overhead anywhere in the world North or South of 23.5 degrees latitude.

 

You may take your shadows for granted, but it was noticing and measuring the different lengths of shadows at different places that the Mathematician and librarian at Alexandria Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth to impressive accuracy over 2000 years ago !

Indeed they knew from  the different lengths of the shadow at the same time in different places that the world was round , thousands of years before the claim of the ‘discovery’ that the world is round from Christopher Columbus.'

 

Subscribe to 'Space News' - local astronomy news and events by emailing Shirin Haque at shirin.haque@sta.uwi.edu

 

The first hurricane of the season has finally formed in the Atlantic Ocean.

Hurricane Bill, tropical storms Ana and Claudette mark the first active weekend of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season.

This year's first hurricane Bill developed out of the Cape Verde islands  off Africa after following in Ana's wake. Ana did a good job of clearing the Atlantic of the dry air making atmospheric conditions more favorable for the Bill to make hurricane strength.

Tropical storm Ana had the Leeward Islands on alert then weakened to a tropical depression before crossing Guadeloupe and Dominica 15 August.

Meanwhile Claudette showed Gulf of Mexico residents that tropical storms can develop in your backyard particularly during this year. 

 

It's August. The Atlantic Hurricane season is here, but we're still waiting for Ana (up to the time of writing) to start the annual procession of tropical storms across the Atlantic Basin which includes the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.

Atmospheric conditions though are forecast to become favorable during the middle of August.

Despite the El Nino rearing its head; the enhanced phase of the Madden Julian Oscillation will favour development of two or possibly three named storms.

So we should have Ana and Bill by the end of August!

Will there be monster of a hurricane threatening the Caribbean-only time will tell.

p.s. The revised forecast released in August from Dr. Gray's team at University of Colorado was downgraded to ten (10) named storms : four (4) of those storms are expected to develop into hurricanes, with winds of at least 74 miles (119 kilometers) an hour. Two will become major hurricanes, with winds exceeding 110 miles (177 kilometers) an hour.