Well, welcome back everyone...I'm in the saddle blogging for the moment, and later today, Sheril and I are going to be hanging out here in LA together. We'll try to post a picture or something.
In the meantime, though, I wanted to post a link to a fun "storm pundit" item I did for the Daily Green recently, entitled the "Most Superlative Storms of 2007." I went through the year's many hurricanes and identified the following: Most Deadly, Most Intense, Most Surprising, Hardest to Forecast, Wettest, and Most Political.
Follow the links to see which storms I picked for each category. And here's to much blogging, about storms and all else, in 2008!
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