I was intrigued and worried what had happened overnight in north Queensland’s cyclone so I was looking through statistics and reading news reports to find that it had been severe. My regards to anyone who was in it, but at Hamilton Island I found this very very odd temperature reading which just after the height of the cyclone the temperature reached 43 degrees C at 3:45 in the morning! http://www.weatherzone.com.au/station.jsp?lt=site&lc=33106&list=ob
Its previous record was 33 degrees and that was during the day and this was at night! http://www.weatherzone.com.au/station.jsp?lt=site&lc=33106&list=ds
Somebody suggested that this was a misreading but the temperature gauge continued to read into the high thirties right up to one in the afternoon today where it mysteriously cut out (which supports the theory that it was a misreading) Nowhere else around it did it rise above 30C which to me seems odd though temperatures can vary greatly over small distances. If it wasn’t a misreading what weather phenomena caused it? A heat burst? The wind was from a warm direction and when you take into account that it gusted up to 202-5km/h it could have been heat burst. Please answer i find this very weird.

You all should be aware of hurricane preparations, but in case you need a refresher course: We’re about to enter the hurricane season. Any minute now, you’re going to turn on the TV and see a weather person pointing to some radar blob out in the Atlantic Ocean and making two basic meteorological points.

There is no need to panic.
We could all be killed.
Yes, hurricane season is an exciting time to be in Florida. If you’re new to the area, you’re probably wondering what you need to do to prepare for the possibility that we’ll get hit by "the big one."

Based on our insurance industry experiences, we recommend that you follow this simple three-step hurricane preparedness plan:

STEP 1: Buy enough food and bottled water to last your family for at least three days.

STEP 2: Put these supplies into your car.

STEP 3: Drive to Nebraska and remain there until Halloween.

Unfortunately, statistics show that most people will not follow this sensible plan. Most people will foolishly stay here in the coastal states. So, start with step one.

Ok. It’s like this.
You can’t predict if Ichiro is going to get a hit on a certain pitch, but having looked at his stats over a period of seasons, you can predict that he’s going to hit over .320 for the season, and probably over .330 for his career. Sure, he’ll have some bad days and seasons, but you can predict the overall trend based on previous data spanning the seasons. He’s a good hitter even if he struck out 4 times last night. The trend is established by the historical data. And not by what happened in the past few games.

So could you denial freaks please stop expecting scientists to predict "each" hurricane, each day, each month?

Hope the digressive sports reference will help you further understand trends, statistics, and data as they relate to global warming.

You should have learned all of this by the 8th grade anyway.