Tuesday notes

Still a breezy day, and there are raindrops on the window BUT the sun is coming out. At last. You can only have so much of drab, grey, wet weather.

Over in Russia, Boris Yeltsin has died. He was the one that held a speech, standing on top of a tank outside the Russian Duma, the Parliament. He was also the one that had said building shelled. Yeltsin is credited with killing off communism in Russia, terminating the Soviet Union. He succeeded Michael Gorbatchov, who laid the groundwork for it. Yeltsin was aged 76 and died of heartfailure.

The hurricane season is in a quiet spell, prior to the commencement of the northern hemisphere season on 15 May in the Eastern Pacific. Looking at the satellite picture, things are coming nicely to the boil there. The North Atlantic still has plenty of fronts about, which preclude the formation of hurricanes. Season here will commence on 1 June.