So, Bertha is headed to Iceland; she'll probably be only a

tropical storm by then, but still, a tropical storm in Iceland?!?!

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2+shtml/150116.shtml?5day#contents

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It may take only two hours to fly to Greenland from Iceland but it is a world of difference here. The Gulf Stream has bestowed Iceland with much greenery but Greenland, in particular, Kulusuk along the east coast, lies on 65'C 35'’, just south of the Arctic Circle, and way off the warm Gulf Stream. Granite rock, massive icebergs, bare haunting landscape with tiny pockets of greenery which in any case comprise of mainly grass and algae, and loaming inland is the Greenland Icecap, which covers more than 85% of the world’s largest island.

The Inuit people (previously known as the Eskimos, these days denounced as a depredatory term, for it means people who eat raw meat) were the first peoples of this island. In the 980's, Eric the Red, a Norwegian Viking who got into repeated trouble (real serious ones like murder and vandalism) in Norway and then Iceland, fled here where he founded a colony. Then he committed one of the greatest frauds in the history of the world property sector by naming the island Greenland so as to attract settlers - all despite the desolate coldness and hostile environment.

http://weecheng.com/europe/greenice/greenland/green1.htm

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I'm not sure Eric the Red committed fraud when he promoted Greenland- he got there during a warming trend.

NOAA's "Query Storm Tracks" interactive map.

http://maps.csc.noaa.gov/hurricanes/viewer.html

extreme in how severe each storm is and how long they last.


;-)

Iceland without telling us if the frequency has changed in recent years.

by the time they get that far. It's just a question of origin and wind speed. Iceland gets its share of wind storms, just few of them that have meandered around in the mid Atlantic long enough to have been named.

... by the time it gets there. The latest:

"SPACE ANALYSES FROM FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY USING THE GFS FORECAST
FIELDS INDICATE THAT BERTHA WILL BECOME AN EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONE
VERY SOON...PROBABLY NOT LONG AFTER 1200 UTC TODAY."