Wednesday notes

After a morning of rain, the sun has come out and it is looking quite nice, if a bit breezy.

I posted the entry regarding the clearances on one of my other blogs, and it elicited a response to the tune of: this is still going on today. Over the past few months, a lady from the Isle of Arran, southwest of Glasgow, was forced to leave the island where her ancestors had lived for 500 years. Even though she had a viable business there, no affordable housing is was available for her, and right now she lives in what sounds like a slum in Fife, eastern Scotland. Read her story on BBC Island Blogging.

Not much doing on the hurricane front - there is a tropical storm about in the Pacific, southwest of Baja California, but that is heading out to sea and not threatening land. The remains of tropical depression Cosme are heading west across the Pacific, having crossed the dateline overnight. It looks unlikely that a new cyclone will form out of that system.