Paleotempestology

Tropical weather has picked up recently and in the course of exploring
some links related to the current meteorological scene, I discovered
the wonderful term, "paleotempestology." It brought me back to my
early geology courses, one of which involved a field course where I
ended up looking at what I normally would have called a rock, but had
learned was a book, and in that book, I read about a storm once upon a
time that had upended bit of stromatolite and piled up some of the
sandy bottom of that shallow sea around it so it is still upended
today, in an exposed rock outcrop far from any coast. I never went
into geology, but that is an experience you don't forget.

So, I looked it up a bit and found a couple of paleotempestology
links, for anyone interested:

A New England weather Usenet repost of an article from 1999 about
researchers in the field: http://preview.tinyurl.com/28ozxa

The NOAA Paleotempestology page: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/hurricane/

Barb
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Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main
And threading the eye of a yellow star...
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes

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