Texas faces “potentially catastrophic” damage when Hurricane Ike hits in the next few hours, US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has warned.
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If it soon vanishes for a while, you’ll know why. It is going to get wet.
It seems that the most brutal of the summer temperatures are coming to an end here in the Algarve, with the present temperature sitting at 26ºC and a forecast high today of 28ºC.
This may not sound too cool but compared to the past few months, when 35ºC+ has been the norm, I can tell you that this feels a whole lot more comfortable.
Soon enough the temperatures at night here will plummet down to around 13-15ºC, this is something that always happens around the beginning of October, and then things will go from being comfortable to feeling downright cold, but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.
The tension is mounting here in the Rogi Castle as with each new Olympic news broadcast from Beijing I peer ever more intently skywards.
Come on, China, just for me; rain like you have never rained before.