St. Maarten Private Eye

Several of my flooring ceramic tiles were cracked from one end of the house to the other.I live high in Weymouth Hill so perhaps that is why. Scared the hell out of me. I am from California and the hgihest scale I have had was 6.9, hopefully no aftershocks.

Larry

Please use the blog just posted about the quake for further comments on it, cheers!

Hady

La Nina, which means "little girl" in Spanish, is an unusual cooling of Pacific Ocean surface temperatures and can trigger widespread changes in weather around the world, including a higher-than-normal number of hurricanes in the Atlantic.October-November forecast calls for 4 named storms, 2 hurricanes and 1 major hurricane, the above-average prediction for October-November 2007 activity is largely due to the emergence of a now moderate La Niña event.

Sea Temp Anomalies April 2007

April 2007 was the third warmest April for the globe on record, and the first four months of 2007 were the warmest ever, according to statistics released this week by the National Climatic Data Center.

Read more at Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog

It looks like this year the storm names are a repeat (except for those names retired) from 1995...
TS Barry: July 5-10
TS Chantal: July 12-22
TS Dean: July 28-Aug 2
Hurricane Erin: July 31-Aug 6
Hurricane Felix: Aug 8-25
TS Gabrielle: Aug 9-12
Hurricane Humberto: Aug 22-Sept 1
Hurricane Iris: Aug 22-Sept 7
TS Jerry: Aug 22-Aug 28
TS Karen: Aug 26-Sept 3
Hurricane LUIS: Aug 27- Sept 12 (hit SXM Sept 5)
Hurricane Marilyn: Sept 12-Oct 1
Hurricane Noel: Sept 26-Oct 7
Hurricane Opal: Sept 27-Oct 6
TS Pablo: Oct 4-Oct 8
Hurricane Roxanne: Oct 7-Oct 21
TS Sebastien: Oct 20-Oct 25
Hurricane Tanya: Oct 27-Nov 3
sxmmartini

Six lists are used in rotation:
see NOAA

The Dutch Marines visit SXM....May 21-May 26 for Operation Hurex (Hurricane Exercise) This type of operation is carried out at the beginning of every hurricane season bringing together the Royal Dutch Marines, Police, Fire Department, Voluntary Corps of St. Maarten and several other agencies. If you are on SXM at this time do not be alarmed. Example: a scenario was fabricated , where a Marine, realistically swathed in ketchup, had apparently "lost his leg" in an automobile accident. The "victim" and his leg were transported to hospital ambulance personnel.

The Dutch Marines will allow media onboard the zuiderkruis

The defense of the Dutch islands is the responsibility of the Dutch armed forces, one frigate, at least two maritime patrol aircraft, and part of the third infantry battalion of the Marine Corps are permanently stationed in the Caribbean.