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• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:53:44 -0800 (PST)

Today was a warm  and for the most part sunny day.The
morning started out with some gray Altocumulus
clouds,which is a cloud type I have not seen for some
time.

The clouds brought a eerie,dark look to the morning.It
is usually white or gray, and often occurs in sheets
or patches with wavy, rounded masses or rolls.

Altocumulus often are seen preceding a cold front, and
their presence on a warm, humid, summer morning
frequently signals the development of thunderstorms
later in the day.Which did not happen .As the day
progressed they broke up and allowed some sun.

Outside Mobay
On the radar I am only seeing some spotty showers over
the mountainous interior so the remainder of Jamaica
was sunny.

Across the region 
a strong cold front moved through the Northern Bahamas
today.Freeport reported heavy rain and 24kt
winds(27mph) .

The temperature at my location (about 12 km east of
Montego Bay)got up to 30.3 deg C(86.5 deg F) Which is
the highest temperature this week.The low fell to a
seasonal23.1 deg C(73.6 deg F)

Forecast
There is currently there is a surface trough to our nw
which will move across northern parishes tomorrow.

Monday
Partly cloudy skies (surface trough)light showers over
Western and Central parishes.

Tuesday
Partly Cloudy (cold front)showers over eastern
parishes

Wednesday
Mainly sunny chance for showers over Central parishes.

Thursday
Mainly sunny

Friday
Mainly sunny


Below
1st Typical altocumlus clouds

2nd  Doppler radar of Jamaica


3rd  48 hr surface forecast


 
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• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:12:01 -0800 (PST)

For the last few days we have been having really quiet
weather.Cloudless skies,little if no wind.
The city (Montego Bay) is current hosting the Air
Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival,which has brought many
vistors to our city.

Forecast
Last Week I mentioned a cold front would affect us on
Saturday 27th(tommorrow).That cold Front has cleared
the Cayman Islands and is currently just northwest of
us.
It is becoming stationery and will stay to our
northwest. Saturday night the cold front will retreat
north toward the Bahamas as a warm front.

A new cold front will emerge off the Florida Coast
Sunday .This cold front will move SEward and be just
nw of Jamaica,Monday afternoon.

For the next week.for partly cloudy conditions with an
increased chance of showers Monday afternoon.


 
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• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:02:36 -0800 (PST)

 A warm welcome to our special correspondent Thea,Who
was   away for a couple weeks.Glad to have you back.

  Today was another great weather day in Montego
Bay,but like the  past couple of days the mornings 
started nippy in the low 20s(c),but by 9 a.m things
are nice and pleasant around 27c.

Our weather is currently been influenced by a high
pressure system located over the north central
Atlantic.Which will move into the Northeastern
Atlantic tomorrow.It  will be supplemented by a weaker
but broad high pressure system now over the Central
United States.It will move east,exiting the Virgina
coast Sunday, then into the Southwest Atlantic between
Bermuda and the Bahamas in the earlier  part of next
week.
This will afford us moderate easterly trades ( wind)
which will probably get stronger next week.

Further down the road (includes changes to last
monday's forecast)

Computer Forecast models are suggesting that a series
of Cold Fronts will move SEward into the Caribbean
over the next couple of weeks.

On Monday,I mentioned the first one which will affect
us next Thursday and would reach as far as Puerto Rico
in that weekend,The forecast models are NOW saying the
cold front will enter the NW Caribbean on Friday and
stall over Jamaica Next Saturday,So It seems us in the
Western and Central Caribbean will be the only ones
getting a taste of winter.We are expecting from this
cold front  light - moderate showers,strong northerly
winds and cooler temperature Ill giving more info next
week .

The second expected to be arriving a two weeks from
today.

So for the next six days look for partly cloudy
conditions with a 20% chance of scattered showers
mainly early morning and in the afternoons.

Huricane Like storm Grips Europe. source jeff masters
blog

Europe's strange winter weather continues to generate
headlines, as a powerful low pressure system brought
hurricane-force wind gusts to England, Germany, the
Czech Republic, and many other European countries on
Thursday. The powerful extratropical cyclone, now
centered over western Russia, has a central pressure
of 960 mb--the kind of pressures commonly seen in
Category 1 and 2 hurricanes! At least 41 people have
been killed in the storm, mostly motorists in England
and Germany. The storm shut down the German train
system for the first time in history. The last winter
storm with comparable winds in Europe occurred in
January 1990. The latest computer forecast models
point to the first significant snows and cold for
Europe next week, when a major low pressure system is
expected to finally tap into some cold Artic air and
pull it southwards over much of Europe.

Extraordinary warmth in Europe
The European storm was a warm and rainy one, and
record warmth continues to affect both Europe and most
of northern Asia (Figure 1). January 10, with a
temperature of 8 °C, was the warmest in the first 10
days of January in Moscow, Russia, according to the
hydro-meteorological bureau for Moscow. Record keeping
began in 1870. St. Petersburg reported their warmest
January day in 125 years of record keeping the same
day, with a temperature of 8.6 °C. Nighttime minimum
temperatures in London, England, hit 12.6 °C on
January 8, which is warmer than the average July
minimum temperature, 12° C. So far, January
temperatures in London are the warmest since record
keeping began in 1659.

Romanian snowboarders blockade weather office
The lack of snow in Romania has driven snow lovers in
that country to desperation. A group of Romanian
snowboarders blocked traffic in front of the country's
weather institute January 16, and would only budge
when weather officials would agree that their
complaints of a lack of snow "would be passed on to a
higher authority", according to Ananova.

Winter hits the U.S., China, and Bengladesh
Winter cold has hit the western U.S. hard this week,
with California suffering a devastating freeze to its
citrus crop. Heavy snow has affected central
China--the Chinese official state media Xinhua said on
January 16th that more than 1,000 houses have
collapsed and 2,424 damaged in the weather as snow
levels reached 300 millimeters in some regions.
Earlier this month, Bengladesh saw temperatures that
fell from the daily average of 18 °C to between 5 and
8 °C. The government called on affluent people to
donate warm clothes and blankets to the poor, as
doctors reported that more than 100 people had died
from the sudden cold.



 
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• From: Thea van der Elst <thea_1012 at hotmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:49:09 +0000

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:53:25 -0800 (PST)

We have been experiencing Mostly Clear-Partly
conditions today in Montego Bay and generally across
Jamaica.

Yesterday we had a trace of rain which is nothing
compared to what we will experience next week
(discussed below in the forecast).

Forecast 

The great weather being experienced in the Western and
Central Caribbean are compliments of a high pressure
which extends from the Western Caribbean up to
Florida.The Florida portion will break down,the heat
dome in the Caribbean will block any Cold Fronts from
entering the Caribbean this week.So you have this week
to soak up the gorgeous weather.

Next Weeks Big Weather Changes

Next week the computer models take so far this
Winter's Strongest Cold Front into the Caribbean
Basin.It moves through the Northwest Caribbean and
reaches Jamaica (1wk)one  week from this Thursday or
ten days from today(arrives here Thursday,January
25th,)It will then move through the Central Caribbean
making it as far as Puerto Rico later that
weekend,With this being the cases expect a size-able
change  in the weather late next week much  different
than this week's weather.

FOR now
partly cloudy conditions through late next week,only a
20% chance of a shower few and far between,coming
mainly from the east.

LOWEST TEMPERATURE MONDAY...HIGHEST TEMPERATURES
PREVIOUS DAY
TEMPERATURES IN BOTH FAHRENHEIT AND CELSIUS
PRECIPITATION FOR THE PAST 6, 12 OR 24 HOURS AS
INDICATED

CITY              WEATHER        HIGH     LOW     
PCPN    TIME
                                 F/C      F/C       IN
     HR

ACAPULCO          FAIR          93 34    67 19        
      
BARBADOS          FAIR          82 28    75 24        
      
BERMUDA           FAIR          70 21    62 17        
      
BOGOTA            FAIR          66 19    50 10        
      
CURACAO           FAIR          86 30    78 25    
0.16    24
FREEPORT          PTCLDY        77 25    66 19        
      
GUADALAJARA       FAIR          80 26    48  9        
      
GUADELOUPE        FAIR          81 27    71 22    
0.22    24
HAVANA            FAIR          84 29    63 17        
      
KINGSTON          SHOWERS       94 35    77 25   
TRACE    24
MAZATLAN          FAIR          81 27    57 14        
      
MERIDA            FAIR          91 33    72 22        
      
MEXICO CITY       FAIR          75 24    46  8        
      
MONTEGO BAY       PTCLDY        86 30    76 25   
TRACE    24
MONTERREY         CLOUDY        78 26    55 13        
      
NASSAU            RAIN          80 27    71 22    
0.01    24
SAN JUAN PR       FAIR          83 28    73 23    
0.11    24
ST THOMAS         FAIR          87 31    75 24    
0.07    24
TEGUCIGALPA       FAIR          76 25    64 18        
      
TRINIDAD          FAIR          87 30    72 22   
TRACE    24
VERACRUZ          PTCLDY        85 29    73 23        
      




 
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• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 19:31:40 -0800 (PST)

 Today was a windy day with quick shots of
moderate-heavy rainfall.

The winds have finally died down,winds today were
between 18mph(6a.m)-23mph(9a.m-1p.m),like yesterday we
had periods of rain.The rains were very sudden and
popped up out of nowhere,they each lasted a few
minutes then disappeared as sudden as they appeared. 

Today's Rainfall  was 0.3in/7.63mm.This total fell in
three periods just before midnight(actually
yesterday)8am and the heaviest at6p.m.

Weeks Recap

This  week could be considered balanced week we had
adequate rainfall for our crops and enough sunshine to
enjoy the beach,a walk,etc .Our weather was dominated
by a frontal through.Which brought cloudy conditions
and periods of rain this week.

Monday
Monday was sunny until 11a.m,overcat remainder of the
day.no  precipitation

Tuesday
We had sunny conditions a light shower at 10 a.m
rainfall 0.1in/2.54mm 

Wednesday
It was a sunny morning.It became overcast at
11a.m,light intermitten rain followed  until 8p.m.
rainfall 0.27/6.8mm

Thursday
Sunny after 11p.m (mentioned above)
rain:(0.19in/4.8mm)

Friday
Sunny and windy 

RAIN
This weeks total=0.56inch/14.2mm

We had 4 rainy days this week

On average January has 9 rainy days

So far this month we have had 5days  of precipition

Total rainfall amount this month so far
0.66inch/16.77mm.

Average rainfall for month of January is 85mm/3.34in

below Doppler radar

all times in est(eastern standard time)
posted 10:30p.m


 
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• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:46:53 -0800 (PST)

Today was a mixed day in Montego Bay.Today was for the
most part partly cloudy,but we did have intermittent
light   rain showers which started at 10 a.m this
morning and continued for about fifteen minutes,for
the entire event the sun was shinning brightly.

Fair weather continued until 2p.m,when we again had
light showers which persisted  on and off up to
3p.m.Today's winds have been moderate,the average wind
speed for January(period 18years)is 13mph.Today we had
easterly winds which for most of today was
19mph...31km/h...17kts.

Forecast
The majority of Jamaica had partly cloudy conditions 
today,as we have a high pressure system over the
Atlantic just east of Bermuda,It going to move a
little further east ,It will weaken slightly over the
weekend but it elongate all the way from the Southern
USA through the Central Atlantic into Europe.

This will maintain our stronger than normal easterly
trades up are small craft advisories into the weekend
and beyond into next week.At the same time a heat dome
into the  Central  Gulf of Mexico provide us with dry
northerly winds aloft and that going to keep the
chances of showers down.The our forecast calls for
partly cloudy conditions for the next week along with
a 20% chance of a widely scattered shower mainly
during the afternoon.

High each day 30-31c/86-88f lows...24c/75F.
Small Craft Advisories through to Tuesday winds:20-25kts


 
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• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:33:09 -0800 (PST)

  Effective April 1 Jamaicans will need a visa to
enter the British Virgin Islands.

Chief Minister Dr. Orlando Smith who made the
announcement said while some Jamaicans were making
positive contributions to the BVI there were others
who have committed most of the immigration offences
from 2002-2006.

He said these offences include overstaying and working
illegally and that over the years the situation has
increased.

Dr. Smith says he has been inundated with calls about
the need to take action and as a result all Jamaicans
entering the British territory will need to be in
possession of a visa.

The BVI joins a number of other countries in the
region that have instituted similar requirements for
Jamaicans.

The list of countries include the Cayman Islands,
Anguilla and St. Maarten.

below  is a petition forwarded by a reader I belive
all my readers should take a look at it and sign the
petition



Cockpit Country is a mountainous, forested area of
western Jamaica, rich in biodiversity and home to the
Leeward Maroons of Jamaica.  Its landscape of
steep-sided hills and deep, round valleys eroded from
the limestone bedrock is an outstanding example of
karst topography.  The wet limestone forest of Cockpit
Country is Jamaica?s largest remaining primary forest
and a refuge for rare Jamaican animals such as the
Black-billed parrot and the Giant Swallow-tail
butterfly, and more than 60 endemic plants.  While the
Land of Look Behind is famous in Jamaican history,
each scientific expedition reveals more natural
wonders of this ?biodiversity hotspot? and secrets of
its Taino and Maroon heritage.  A renewed interest in
prospecting for bauxite and limestone in the Cockpit
Country has sparked a campaign led by a wide
cross-section of local and overseas Jamaicans ? the
Cockpit Country Stakeholders? Group ? to protect this
unique area.  Mining in Cockpit Country would destroy
the natural, cultural and archaeological resources of
Cockpit Country that are virtually untapped as a
source of sustainable livelihoods, especially eco- and
heritage tourism, for many rural communities of
Jamaica.

oringinal message

Hi, All

If you would like to help circulate the Save Cockpit
Country Petition, here is a brief note you can send to
your contacts.  Just copy and paste it.  Also, if you
bookmark the Petition link you can revisit it and read
some wonderful comments.  It?s up to 169 signatures
already, in just a couple days!

-- Wendy

 

 

The PETITION to Save Cockpit Country is now online at:

 
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/848967167
.
    It takes just a few seconds to sign it!   Read the
comments, add your voice.

 

1. We call on the Prime Minister of Jamaica to ensure
that the Cockpit Country and environs, as described by
the Cockpit Country Stakeholders? Group, is declared
CLOSED to mining and commercial prospecting. 

2. We urge the Government of Jamaica to take steps to
declare the Cockpit Country a Protected National Area
as a matter of priority, as stipulated in the 1997
Policy for a National System of Protected Areas in
Jamaica . 

3. As organisations and individuals interested in the
conservation of Jamaica ?s unique natural and cultural
heritage, we wish to see the Cockpit Country protected
and managed as a World Heritage Site.

 

 

Northern Jamaica Conservation Association

PO Box 212, Runaway Bay , St. Ann JAMAICA, W.I.

Tel / fax: 876-973-4305

E-mail:  NJCA at cwjamaica.com






 
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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:25:58 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 11:22:04 -0800 (PST)

  This morning as I looked outside it was
cloudless,Bright and Sunny.I went inside and about 10
minutes later the sun was completely obscured,not even
gaps of blue can be seen.

Last Night,was cloudless,lack of  clouds,lack of
insulation result cold night .Last nights low 
was...21.9C/71.F 
 
Clouds
There are only a few clouds at 2200 ft  / 670 m,but
Mostly Cloudy   3000 ft  / 914 m .

The satellite photograph(below) shows a patchy clouds
across the island.

Doppler radar(below) indicates some light showers
across coastal sections of St.Ann and St.Mary,for  the
rest of us what you see is what you get. 

Partly-mostly cloudy conditions,a few light rain
showers few and between, mostly  along northern
coastal areas.
Today's highs...northern coastal areas 28c-29c/82-84F
             ...southern coastal  areas 31c-32c/87-89F
             ...hilly interior          26c-27c/78-80F

Tonights lows ... northern coastal areas 21-22c/69-71F
              ... southern coastal areas 20-22c/68-71F
            ...hilly interior(Mandeville)16-18c/60-64F

Winds   
      10-15kts 11-18mph

 

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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 08:08:42 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 21:19:42 -0800 (PST)

Today was  a pleasant day.Sunny and a nice cool
east-eastnortheasterly breeze to cooldown the  land.

Yesterday was very hot temperature wize,At my location
the high was 31.1c,even more amazing was the airports
high 34c/92f.The average high 27.9/82.2f.

The relative humidity was very low by tropical
standards 38% after 1pm,which was good when the
humidity is that low it actually feels cooler. 

Starting this week I will try to recap the week's
weather.

The majority of this week was under the dominant of a
high pressure system,easterly flow,easterly
winds,Which provided at times strong  winds.

This Week's Rainfall
 Montego Bay had scattered showers early morning on
Wednesday.

I recorded 2.54mm/0.1 inch at home(Ironshore).The
airport recorded only a trace.
 
Mean Number of Rain Days  in January is 9,rain days so
far at my location 1

This weeks  temps
This week was a bit warmer than average.The average
high for January is 27.9c/82.2f (30 year
period1951-1980).Everyday this week was above that
29-30c,and 31-32c .





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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 08:00:16 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 06:35:24 -0800 (PST)

  We picked up some brief  the early morning
hours(2.54mm/0.1 inch),but things cleared up fine
providing a wonderful morning.



currently (10:30 am est)
Temperature 26.9 deg C/80.2 deg F (trend rising) 
Humdity 67%(trend falling)
pressure 1019mb (rising)
Winds  east 13mph (11kts)

Todays Caribbean Forecast

More coastal precipitation is anticipated across the
eastern coast of Central America on Wednesday as
strong easterly trade winds blow moist air into the
land. In the Gulf of Mexico, the winds will not be as
steady, but a weak low pressure system is expected to
develop off the southern Texas coast, bringing squally
conditions to the waters of the western Gulf and rain
to Texas and northeastern Mexico.

Jamaica Forecast

Mainly fair and windy,becoming partly cloudy during
the afternoon with showers across north-western and
central areas.
 Below the blob which gave the early morning showers
moving west away from the island

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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 16:30:35 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 13:13:18 -0800 (PST)

I would like to wish everyone a Happy and Prosperous
2007.I know there willbe alot of events across the
Caribbean today so heres the forecast.

Caribbean Forecast
Minimal shower and thunderstorm development is
expected throughout the Caribbean Sea Monday. The
strongest storms that will develop in the sea will pop
up near the Central American coast from Nicaragua
through Panama.

Weak storms will also develop just south of Cuba,
Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico.

Perhaps the biggest story in the region will be a
strong cold front that will continue sweeping through
the Gulf of Mexico. This feature will focus showers
and thunderstorms along its main boundary. This will
likely be through the central portion of the Gulf and
extending towards the Florida Panhandle. The Bay of
Campeche will also see considerable showers and
thunderstorms throughout the day due to this strong
cold front.

Moderate tradewinds are anticipated in the heart in
the Caribbean Sea, while weaker winds are expected in
the northwest portion of the sea.



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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:37:24 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:39:20 -0800 (PST)

Sunday, Dec 31

Partly sunny. Winds from the ENE at 28 km/h/18 mph.GUSTS UP TO37MPH

Realfeel®: 30 °C

High: 30 °C

Sunday Night, Dec 31

Partly cloudy. Winds from the ENE at 14 km/h./ 9 mph.

Realfeel®: 26 °C

Low: 25 °C

Monday, Jan 1

Times of clouds and sun. Winds from the ENE at 25 km/h/16 mph.

Realfeel®: 30 °C

High: 30 °C

Monday Night, Jan 1

Partly cloudy, warm and humid. Winds from the ENE at 11 km/h./ 7 mph.

Realfeel®: 27 °C

Low: 24 °C

Tuesday, Jan 2

Intervals of clouds and sunshine. Winds from the ENE at 27 km/h./17 mph

Realfeel®: 31 °C

High: 30 °C

Tuesday Night, Jan 2

Partly cloudy, warm and humid. Winds from the ENE at 16 km/h./10 mph

Realfeel®: 26 °C

Low: 24 °C

Periods of clouds and sunshine. Winds from the ENE at 28 km/h./18 mph.

Realfeel®: 31 °C

High: 29 °C

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• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 19:16:45 -0800 (PST)

Saddam Hussein has just been hanged.souce reuters

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S.-backed Iraqi television
station Al Hurra said Saddam Hussein had been executed
by hanging shortly before 6 a.m. (0300 GMT) on Saturday.

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• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:05:59 -0800 (PST)

We are currently experiencing great weather here in
Montego Bay.Mostly Clear skies,winds east throughout
today ranging from 7-20mph.This was not so earlier
this week.

A stationary front brought intermitten rain on
Wednesday.It was not alot though we picked up
5.08mm/0.2inch.The cooling showers made the air
fresher and kept things cooler.

Breaking News
 Its now 9pm est,It is now a hour before Saddam  is
excuted. source fox news 


BAGHDAD, Iraq ? Saddam Hussein's date with death
appears to be just hours away. The former president of
Iraq will be hanged "within a matter of hours," a Bush
administration official told FOX News on Friday.

"The final meetings have taken places," the official
said, adding in Iraqis have requested Sddam be turned
over to them. "The process is now in the final stage."

Earlier, the Associated Press reported via a top Iraqi
official that Saddam would be hanged before 10 p.m. ET
Friday night (6 a.m. Saturday in Baghdad).

The official witnesses to the impending execution
gathered Friday in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone in
final preparation for his hanging, and state
television broadcast footage of his regime's
atrocities.

Saddam's chief lawyer said the U.S. had turned over
custody of the mass murderer to Iraqi officials, one
of the last steps necessary before the execution. An
Iraqi parliamentarian, Methal Al Aloser, backed up the
lawyer's claims. Al Aloser said not only had Saddam
been handed over, but all papers and documents were
finalized and the execution will be soon.

But Bush administration sources, apprised of Al
Aloser's remarks, reaffirmed that Saddam Hussein
remains in U.S. custody.

Two State Department officials also told FOX News
Saddam was still being held by Americans. "We are
absolutely certain he has not been handed over," one
official said. The official said the handover might
not happen for a few more hours ? or possibly even for
a few more days.

"There is no reason for delays," said Munir Haddad, an
Iraqi judge on the appeals court that reviewed
Saddam's case. He also said the execution will occur
by Saturday.

An unnamed Iraqi government official in Baghdad told
the Associated Press that Prime Minister Nouri
al-Maliki had signed the Butcher of Baghdad's death
warrant.

Al-Maliki said "our respect for human rights requires
us to execute him, and there will be no review or
delay in carrying out the sentence."

Meanwhile, Saddam's attorneys asked a U.S. judge to
block his transfer to the custody of Iraqi officials
poised to carry out his execution.

Hussein's lawyers asked for an emergency restraining
order aimed at stopping the U.S. government from
relinquishing custody of the condemned former Iraqi
leader to Iraqi officials, a spokeswoman for a federal
court in Washington D.C. said.

A similar request by the former chief justice of the
Revolutionary Court, Awad Hamed al-Bandar, was denied
Thursday and is under appeal. Al-Bandar also faces
execution. The Justice Department argued in that case
that U.S. courts have no jurisdiction to interfere
with the judicial process of another country.

A U.S. source in Baghdad said Al-Maliki wanted to
carry out the execution as early as Thursday night,
but that it was delayed for logistical reasons, and
because of confusion over the Iraqi constitution and
the law that governs the tribunal that convicted him
of murder.

The Iraqi prime minister said those who oppose the
execution of Saddam were insulting the honor of his
victims. His office said he made the remarks in a
meeting with families of people who died during
Saddam's rule.

"Nothing and nobody can abrogate the ruling" upholding
Saddam's sentence, al-Maliki said.

Najeed al-Nauimi, a member of Saddam's defense team,
told FOX News that while sentence hasn't yet been
carried out, "we're at a stage where we're requesting
his body be handed over to his family."

Al-Nauimi also predicted Saddam will be defiant until
the end, and go the gallows "smiling, and saying
verses of the Koran."

Saddam was notified Thursday that his death sentence
had been upheld. "His reaction was 'I was expecting
that,' " al-Nauimi quoted Saddam as saying. Saddam
then met with his half brothers and said goodbye to
them.

Iraqi General Abdl Kareem Khalaf told FOX News that
emergency procedures have been implemented in the
former dictator's Salahadin province, where Saddam's
hometown of Tikrit is, as well as Diyala and Mosul
provinces, which have Sunni majorities. The emergency
measures include more Iraqi army and police forces and
more checkpoints.

Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, said U.S. forces
were on high alert.

"They'll obviously take into account social dimensions
that could potentially led to an increase in violence
which certainly would include carrying out the
sentence of Saddam Hussein," Whitman said.


A video of the execution is expected to be released.

In his Friday sermon, a mosque preacher in the Shiite
holy city of Najaf called Saddam's execution "God's
gift to Iraqis."

"Oh, God, you know what Saddam has done! He killed
millions of Iraqis in prisons, in wars with
neighboring countries and he is responsible for mass
graves. Oh God, we ask you to take revenge on Saddam,"
said Sheik Sadralddin al-Qubanji, a member of the
Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq,
known as SCIRI, the dominant party in al-Maliki's
coalition.

One Bush administration official downplayed the
possibility of a "Goering scenario" occurring, a
reference to the high-ranking Nazi official Hermann
Goering, who cheated the hangman at Nuremberg by
swallowing a cyanide capsule slipped to him.
"[Saddam]'s not going to have any friends in the
room," the official said, referring to Saddam at the
moment of his execution.

Iraq's highest court on Tuesday rejected Saddam's
appeal against his conviction and death sentence for
the killing of 148 Shiites in the northern city of
Dujail in 1982. The court said the former dictator
should be hanged within 30 days.

While Saddam's death for the Dujail massacre appears
imminent, he's still facing trial for other
atrocities. Saddam faces genocide charges related to a
coordinated campaign that killed up to 100,000 Kurds,
according to Human Rights Watch. During that campaign,
Saddam used chemical weapons, which killed some 30,000
Iraqis and Iranians.

Al-Nauimi said the timing of Saddam's imminent
execution is "political revenge being carried out by
the present government," adding the trial process was
biased.

Some international legal observers and human rights
groups have called Saddam's trial unfair because of
alleged interference by the Shiite-dominated
government. There has also been internal debate among
Iraqis about legal procedures surrounding the
timeframe and whether the presidency is required to
approve the execution.

"The law does not say within 30 days, it says after
the lapse of 30 days," said Busho Ibrahim, deputy
justice minister. There was no immediate explanation
for the conflicting claims.

  


   








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• Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:30:19 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:31:38 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:43:43 -0800 (PST)

Christmas weather was great. It was mostly sunny until
3pm when we experienced heavy cloud cover,but there
were no complaints,It made the remainder of the day
cooler,the high was 29 C/84.2 F and the low was a cool
22.1(c)/71.1(F)

Today is a public holiday in many CommonWealth
Countries across the world including Jamaica.In
Jamaica,most poeole  dont know the holiday's meaning
or how to celebrate it.If you ask, they may say It a
day boxers fight or the day peopled open presents.

Boxing Day is so called because on this day it was the
customary for tradesmen to collect their Christmas
boxes or gifts in return for good service throughout
the year.

People would aslo "box"up excess food,gifts,clothes
etc,to the less fortunate.

The holiday may date from as early as the Middle Ages,
but the exact origin is not known. It may have begun
with the Lords and Ladies of England, who gave
Christmas boxes/gifts to their servants on December
26, or maybe by priests, who opened the church's alms
(charity boxes), and distributed the contents to the
poor and needy.

Here is the weather some Caribbean/latin american
cities experienced Cities.

CITY              WEATHER        HIGH     LOW     
PCPN    TIME
                                 F/C      F/C       IN
     HR

ACAPULCO          FAIR          88 31    64 18        
      
BARBADOS          PTCLDY        83 29    73 23        
      
BERMUDA           PTCLDY        71 22    66 19        
      
BOGOTA            MISSING       64 18    MM MM        
      
CURACAO           FAIR          88 31    77 25        
      
FREEPORT          SHOWERS       82 28    70 21    
0.19    24
GUADALAJARA       FAIR          73 23    34  1        
      
GUADELOUPE        FAIR          84 29    72 22    
0.06    24
HAVANA            RAIN          84 29    70 21        
      
KINGSTON          FAIR          88 31    79 26    
0.01    24
MAZATLAN          FAIR          79 26    48  9        
      
MERIDA            PTCLDY        81 27    59 15        
      
MEXICO CITY       FAIR          68 20    32  0        
      
MONTEGO BAY       FAIR          89 31    71 22        
      
MONTERREY         FAIR          66 19    43  6        
      
NASSAU            PTCLDY        83 29    74 24        
      
SAN JUAN PR       PTCLDY        83 28    72 22    
0.15    24
ST THOMAS         FAIR          86 30    74 23    
0.02    24
TEGUCIGALPA       DRIZZLE       82 28    64 18        
      
TRINIDAD          PTCLDY        87 30    73 23    
0.09    24
VERACRUZ          CLOUDY        79 26    67 20    
0.04    24



Below latest satellite pictures

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• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:36:21 -0800 (PST)

   Today was a great day.At home was dry,but while I
was downtown we had a quick passing shower.
Tommorrow looks great .High Pressure Ridge across the
central caribbean has been keeping things nice and
dry.

Christmas forecast
Partly cloudy with scattered showers and isolated
thunderstorms especially across inland ares.Windy
conditions along coastal areas.
 There will be many celebrations ,barbeques and feasts
tommorrow and things look great

I would like to wish all Jamaicans at home and abroad
a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year.

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• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:45:05 -0800 (PST)

 Today was a great day for the thousands of Jamaicans
completing last minute Christmas shopping.

In Montego Bay,large crowds of people streamed through
stores trying to find gifts.

We had lots of sunshine,and lots of cumulus clouds
drifting on and offshore


In the center of the town in the vicinity of the Civic
center there is a huge Christmas tree which can be
seen from all over the city.


Today's highs 29.9 deg C(85.8 deg F) humidity 84%
Today's lows 24.8 deg C(76.6 deg F) humidity 63%

Yesterday,I discussed sorrel at Christmas .Today I
will  discuss sorrel's  companion Jamaican Christmas
Cake.

Visit a Jamaican home near the holiday season and,
along with a glass of sorrel, you?ll be served
Jamaican Christmas cake. 

This delicious confection includes raisins, cinnamon,
cherries and, in some cases, prunes.

During the holiday season many Jamaicans bake
Christmas Cake.It is delicious,rich and fruity.

Below is a great recipe 

INGREDIENTS :

    * 6 ounces or 1.5 cup flour
    * 8 ounces margarine or butter
    * 8 ounces sugar
    * 4 eggs
    * 1 pound raisins
    * 1 teaspoon cinnamon
    * 1/2 teaspoon mixed spice
    * 1/2 teaspoon salt
    * 4 ounces mixed peel
    * 4 ounces cherries
    * 1/2 pound prunes (chopped)
    * 1 cup wine/brandy
    * 1 teaspoon baking powder
    * 1 teaspoon vanilla
    * finely grated rind of 1 lime/lemon
    * 2 tablespoons browning



METHOD:

   1. Cream butter, sugar and browning until soft and
fluffy.
   2. Sieve all dry ingredients together
   3. Beat eggs, wine/brandy together.
   4. Add egg mixture to creamed butter and sugar.
   5. Add fruits.
   6. Add flour and fold in. Do no over-beat when
mixing.
   7. Bake at 350F for 1 1/2 hours.
   8. Yield: 9' round cake.

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• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:17:37 -0800 (PST)

 For the past week we have been having great
weather.Mostly dry and Sunny.On Wednesday, a surface
trough brought us 7.6mm(0.3inches)of rain.Which the
earth quickly devoured and within 2 hours there was
almost no indication that the rain had fallen.

December is traditionally Jamaica's driest month and
this   December seems it will live up  to that title,
We may even be below normal precipitation wise.

Christmas Forecast

Christmas weather this year looks great for Jamaica
even up to the New Year.We will have no fronts for the
remainder of 2007.

A cold front will make it as far as Caymans on
Christmas Eve ,but will not impact our weather .

Look for partly cloudy skies with barely a chance of a
shower. 

Sorrel
Sorrel is Jamaica's Christmas drink,It is one of those
things distinctly Jamaican.No Jamaican Christmas is
complete without sorrel.

The sorrel plant produces in the month of December and
people can be seen selling the fruit for $120ja in
most towns .If your lucky you can get ginger included
at no extra cost .I cannot even describe to you the
taste .It is a out of body experience.It is most
commonly red,but there is also a white variety.

Below is a recipe

INGREDIENTS :

    * 1 pound sorrel
    * 2-4 oz. ginger
    * 2 quarts water
    * sugar
    * rum (optional)
    * 8-12 pimento grains

.
METHOD:

   1. Wash sorrel thoroughly, using the fingers to
lift it from the water.
   2. Put into stainless steel container.
   3. Scrape and wash ginger. Grate and Add to the
sorrel. Add pimento grains.
   4. Boil water and pour over sorrel.
   5. Allow to stand 4-6 hours. Strain.
   6. Sweeten to taste and add rum to taste.
   7. Add optional wine.
   8. Serve with ice cubes.

Below is a two pictures of sorrel

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• From: "Thea van der Elst" <thea_1012 at hotmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:09:55 +0000

One Love and much Light in the holiday season to you all.
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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 05:22:40 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 18:56:41 -0800 (PST)

Today was another great day.Mostly clear skies,winds
10-15kts

Many Jamaicans take for granted how blessed we are to
have a country like ours filled with immense
beauty.Many people across the world have never seen
the beach,or a waterfall.Many are stuck indoors as
outside is cold and snowy.

Below are some pictures from across our island paradise.

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• Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:36:22 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:36:07 -0800 (PST)

Great weather has been the order of this week.This
week has been so quiet,There has no precipitation or
even overcast conditions since the start of the
week,and today is no exception.

Today winds have been from the east ranging between
13-17mph.You could count on your fingers the amount of
clouds there are in the sky.The only activity I have
seen from my house on the over looking the sea are
fishermen pulling there boats out to see.

Many Montegoians have been taking advantage of the
great weather.Many are christmas "holiday" shopping.
or at the beach etc.While others are working and  and
excited about a possible Christmas bonus.

Forecast

This week our weather has been under the domination of
two High Pressure systems.One in the Sw caribbean
sea,which has and will continue to block cold fronts
from entering the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean for the
next two weeks.The other is located in the northeast
Atlantic.Which will move Se and weaken through the
next 48hrs,While a new high pressure system moves off
the Carolinas Late Saturday.

In simple terms look for Mostly sunny conditions for
the next seven days,with winds through the weekend
10-15kts (11-17mph).Waves 1-2 meters.Temperatures will
get up a high of 31 deg C/88 deg F and lows of 23 deg
c/73 deg F.

Below 
(1)latest visible satellite

(2)latest Ir satellite

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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:58:54 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:01:00 -0800 (PST)

Colorado State & TSR Release Their First 2007 Hurricane Season Forecast
To: jam at stormcarib.com
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  Today has been a great weather day,bright sunny
skies,winds from the east at 15kts.Just a good day for
a walk ,or a day to hit one of  the cities many
beaches.

Both the Tropical Storm Risk group (TSR) and Colorado
State University's Phil Klotzbach and Bill Gray have
released their 2007 Hurricane Season Forecast.  The
bottom line from both forecasts are that it could be
an active season with the current El Nino fading away
within the next three to six months and this would put
the Atlantic in a state of neutral Nino conditions,
which would allow a better chance for an above normal
Hurricane Season. 

Below is the Tsr report link
http://tsr.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/

Colorado State forecast
ATLANTIC BASIN SEASONAL HURRICANE FORECAST FOR 2007

 

Forecast Parameter and 1950-2000

Climatology (in parentheses)

8 December 2006

 Forecast for 2007

Named Storms (NS) 

14

Named Storm Days (NSD) 

70

Hurricanes (H) (5.9)

7

Hurricane Days (HD)

35

Intense Hurricanes (IH) 

3

Intense Hurricane Days (IHD) 

8

Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) 

130

Net Tropical Cyclone Activity (NTC) 

140
 Below Colorado State link


http://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/Forecasts/2006/dec2006/



 
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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:07:30 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:27:31 -0800 (PST)

Since sunday we have been having great weather .Sunny
and  windy.

Whenever there is something negative happens in
Jamaica it is broadcasted all over the place,some
extrodinary news came out of the country and I have
not heard it in the media so i,ll do my part in
contributing positive new  from our Island paradise



Jamaican cancer drug found - Scientific findings
surround endemic plants
 source the gleaner

Jamaican biochemist Dr. Henry Lowe (left) and research
partner Dr. Joseph Bryant of the University of
Maryland Institute of Human Virology (IHV), examine
transgenic mice used to test the effect of two
Jamaican plants on cancer tumours. - Contributed

Two scientists will present research findings today
showing that a pair of endemic Jamaican plants can
help cure five cancers, potentially giving the country
a lucrative share of the global chemotherapy drug
market.

Jamaican biochemist Dr. Henry Lowe discovered the
plants, while his American research partner Joseph
Bryant, laboratory animal veterinarian at the
University of Maryland Institute of Human Virology
(IHV), conducted the tests on cancer tumour cells in
test tubes and then transgenic mice - whose DNA has
been modified to incorporate human genes.

An alternative

What Dr. Lowe told The Gleaner could be a "new
Jamaican brand" could begin commercial production
within three to five years as an alternative to
existing cancer drug Taxol, but Dr. Bryant said one to
three years. Taxol had worldwide sales of US$764
million in 2005 before generic alternatives became
available this year.

"This has huge financial implications both for the
country in terms of tax revenues and foreign exchange
earnings, and for the scientific community," said Dr.
Lowe. "We also look to form an institute (from the
profits) as well as fund training and to research the
further exploitation of Jamaica's plants."

They said an international patent was submitted last
week but that they could not reveal the names of the
plants for reasons of industrial secrecy but would do
so once they identify the compounds involved and
understand how they work.

The plants were tested in a semi-purified state
individually and as a 1:4 combination with Taxol and
reportedly killed cancer cells at the same rate as the
control test of pure Taxol. Taxol can be toxic to some
patients while cancer cells can develop resistance.
However it has been determined that their drug is
non-toxic while levels of resistance will take further
study.

Their presentation will take place this morning at
Eden Gardens Wellness Centre; the business that Dr.
Lowe founded and where the offices of the
Environmental Health Foundation (EHJ), which he
chairs, are located.

He said he would be encouraging local investors and
government to become involved in a company to be
established for trial of the drug and to develop and
market the drug which would ultimately require
partnership with an international pharmaceutical
company.

He stressed that the discovery should be left to the
same fate as periwinkle which was used traditionally
to treat diabetes in Jamaica but was then exploited by
foreign pharmaceutical companies to treat leukaemia.

But with a prospective partnership with so-called 'big
pharma' their cancer drug could be produced locally,
added Dr. Bryant.

"The Caribbean islands, and particularly down to the
Amazon, the poor Third World countries; I don't want
to use the word rape, but they have not been treated
very fairly in (terms of) the taking of natural
resources out of their country. My observation is that
if this turns out to be worth anything ... it would be
great for Jamaica," he said.



Cancers tested:

B-16 melanoma, breast cancer, prostrate cancer, kaposi
sarcoma and a b-cell lymphona.

The cancers were chosen as representative of the
majority of cancers while the latter two are the two
most common affecting AIDS patients. Dr. Bryant's
research team at the University of Maryland Institute
of Human Virology (IHV) is the first in the world to
create transgenic rats whose DNA has been manipulated
to incorporate HIV-1 genes



 
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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:46:10 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:33:19 -0800 (PST)

    A dissapting stationary front is right across the
island.The light rain showers assiociated with the
stationary front started affecting us(in the western
parishes) at about 9 p.m last night,It was on and off
and continued until even this morning.

    The morning tricked some people,it started out
with streaks of sunlight but it was quite
overcast,then at between 1-2:30p.m.We have been having
some squally weather .Look towards my east I saw a
impresive looking line of dark cumlonibus clouds
moving ata pretty quick clip,It started to rain
heavily but the winds were worst they were gusting to
30  mph.Within 5 minutes the dark cloud,rain and wind
was gone and the sky is almost cloudy  except for a
few to my west.

 We only picked up 7.61mm(0.3inches) of rain because
the so windy aslo what  as been amazing has been the
pressure at 9am, this morning it got up to 1019mb,It
is has been falling and currently is at 1015mb .

The stationery front is dissapating as I speak so
tommorrow will be back to normal.  

Below satellite picture showing stationary front


 
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• Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 11:07:10 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 08:47:09 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 22:55:56 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 19:26:19 -0800 (PST)

• From: <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 10:54:16 -0500

We are so happy to see the sun and the clear skies.

Gonna try to send this while I can

Sue M

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 09:03:49 -0800 (PST)

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 06:47:23 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:04:48 -0800 (PST)

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:11:46 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:42:42 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 07:03:10 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 18:50:51 -0800 (PST)

  Iam sorry to report that one person has been killed
from this weeks killer rains.I wanted to blog
yesterday,but a rare event, happen the electricity
went, my situtated near all the hotels so the light
goinging rarely happens anyway ill be giving you an
update on what   has been happening sources The
Gleaner&Observer
      
    In Port Antonio, Portland, the two-bedroom
hillside residence on Red Hassel Road belonging to
53-year-old Pauline 'Junie' Shalland and Cecil 'Bully'
Cover, 50, was almost totally destroyed by a landslide
that occurred after 1:00 a.m. Mr. Cover was retrieved
from the debris in the early hours by neighbours after
the landslide carried him down the hill.(Residence dug
for ten hours with axes,and shovels before her body
was found.She was found in the house in a green
T-shirt, curlers in her hair, with her back against a
column in her bedroom, covered with a bedspread and a
concrete column across her face.

It was a gruesome sight for many, as despite the
frantic search, in which assistance was given by the
National Works Agency, Portland Parish Council,
Portland Parish Disaster Committee and Alcar
Construction, family, friends and neighbours were
clinging to the hope that Shalland would have come out
alive.

"It is really sad to see," said one of Shalland's son,
who gave his name only as Danzel. "I was not here and
them tell me that landslide come down and me mother
trap in there," he said, a look of grief on his face.

Shalland's spouse, Cecil "Butty" Cover, 51, who was
with her on the bed, said he tried to save her, but
was overcome by the thick mud and water.

"I lie down with her in the house and I hear movement
outside 'wooooo.', and so I got up and went outside,
then something hit me and pinned my foot against the
wall, then me just start slide down to the bottom of
the road," said Cover, as tears flowed down his cheeks
while one of his daughters combed his hair as he lay
on his bed at the Port Antonio Hospital. "I couldn't
save her, me did a try to save her," said Cover.

However it was not until after 11 a.m. that Mrs.
Shalland was found dead, trapped by a fallen beam
against a wall. Mr. Cover is recovering in the Port
Antonio Hospital from injuries.

PM condolences

In a statement Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller
offered her condolences to the family of Mrs. Shalland
and said she had instructed Dean Peart, Minister of
Local Government and Environment, to lead a team to
visit the area and prepare a damage report.

Corporal Angella McTaggart, Constabulary Communication
Network (CCN) liaison officer for St. Mary, said the
police are now on the hunt for the goods that were
taken from the Courts Furniture store.Some were
recovered from a empty house ,there were no arrest

Daryl Vaz, Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) caretaker for
West Portland, yesterday called for emergency funding
to rehabilitate the area. Mr. Vaz said there had been
poor maintenance of drains and a lack of river
training over the years.

In Portland, a reported 60 persons were staying with
relatives after rivers overflowed their banks forcing
them to evacuate their homes at Shoesbury, Commodore,
Orange Bay and Fruitful Vale.

Denise Lewis, parish coordinator at the Office of
Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management
(ODPEM), said only one disaster shelter is now opened
in East Portland and that emergency teams remained in
a state of readiness.

In St. Ann, the Ocho Rios Health Centre had to be
closed for a second day due to flooding. A
representative from the facility said that, while most
sections of of the health centre are expected to be
operational by Monday, the dental section will have to
cancel all appointments because of water damage to its
only dental chair.

Arthur Hosang, Superintendent of Road and Works at the
St. Ann Parish Council, appealed for emergency funds
to begin drain cleaning work on a number of roads in
the parish.

Mr. Hosang said that, with most of the drains blocked,
further heavy rain could cause worse flooding
especially in the lower sections of St. Ann's Bay and
Ocho Rios.

Mayor of Port Maria, Bobby Montague said that, in
Jacks River alone, 30 houses were flooded. There was
also flooding in Annotto Bay, Boscobel and Heywood
Hall where a bridge collapsed and several farms were
flooded.

The Weather and Forecast
     Today was mostly sunny,but we had a few periods
of light showers,the stationary front that has caused
so much rain is currently west of the island(midway
Jamaica and Cayman) it has weakened considerable,and
will dissipate in the next 36hrs,So we will be in for
mostly sunny days,but keep the umbrellas near there is
a area of Low pressure which could induce showers and
thunderstorms especially over southern parishes
through late Sunday after this great weather week
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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 07:17:44 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 07:34:13 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 07:13:00 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:29:52 -0800 (PST)

Jamaica is in a frantic situation right now, I do not
know where to start as each minute passes more reports
come through the radio of people stranded in
business,numerous roads and  have been cut dangerous
landslides have occurred of and worst of all the rains
will continue through Saturday and rainfall with
intensify and affect all parishes tonight.

   The town of Port Maria (capital of St.Mary) is
under up to 4ft water and the water is fast
rising,people are marooned in business as it getting
dark people are getting scaried.The odpem is currently
organizing rescue operations with the fire
department,also one house has been washed away and six
flooded.The orabessa-Islington main road is in
passable,haughton bridge in Orange River is also
flooded  the George-Highgate Juction road is blocked
in 8!places,many other roads are also but I haven't
got the names as yet.

   In St Ann,the capital of St.Ann's Bay is
flooded,The flooding is blamed on a over flooding
manhole across from the police stations.In ocho Rious
the city is flooding is report which has caused
horrendous traffic maybe Sue can give us more info.

    Portland is currently the worst affected parish
numerous rivers are in spate,One house has so  far
been was away,the Member of Parliament Mr.Darl Vaz
says if the rain continues their will be utter
devastation.Numerous Communities in the Rio Grande
Valley are under flood waters.
In Montego Bay Bay there is a temporary calm right
now.I just checked my rain gauge,It says we picked up
43.18/1.70inches today.

The forecast
The "stationary front" will continue to slowly drift
West and will be just west of Montego Bay,
tommorrow,the rain associated with the front will
spread across the Central and Western sections of the
island tonight through tomorrow,So the entire island
will experience moderate-heavy rainfall through the
next 24hrs.Improvement in the weather will start on
Saturday.


 
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• Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:31:08 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:16:06 -0800 (PST)

    The past two days have been bitterly cold by
Jamaican standards.Yesterday,There was no rain,but it
was windy and cold.The temperature only got up to
23.4C/74.3F,The low 20.6/69.8F.Everyone was bundled
local and tourist a like.
     Today,light rain started from the early morning
hours and have been continuous even at this time.The
temperature is barely higher than yesterday today's
high got up to 23.5c/74.4f.

Cooler temperatures were not the only problem,the
winds which for the past 2 days have been gusting to
20-25knots making it feel chiller.In more than one
occasion I saw the wind blow peoples umbrellas inside
out.
 We picked up 0.5inches today and has just started
tearing,and as i am typing i am hearing some breaking
news about severe flooding people stranded in
business,rivers in spate.When the news is finished
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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:04:04 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:16:39 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:02:13 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:43:31 -0800 (PST)

 Wow,It amazing how active the last 48hrs have
been,especially when compare with the last couple of
weeks.

  Yesterday,(Monday,November20th)there was continuous
light rain through most of the day,until 3:50 the rain
kicked up in intensity,the rain became so loud and
deafen I could not hear anything . very heavy rain ,so
heavy in fact,We picked up 1.5in of rain that hour.In
all 58.42(2.30)inches fell yesterday(my
location),2.27inches fell at the airport.

     This morning I was awaken by what sounded like
very heavy rain,I looked through the window and
surprizing it was only drizzling but the noise was
actually the wind.It was very cool,in fact today was
the coolest day since the start of the year.At
7.am(est)It was only 21.9celsius/71.4(f)(5 degrees
below normal).The temperature fell further throughout
the day to today's low of 20.7celsius/69.3(f),the high
only got up to 23.3c/73.9f at my location(a bit higher
at airport).

  There was some minor wind damage.My yard is littered
with leaves,as I have a mango tree,ackee tree and a
coconut tree.The winds ripped off  some of the medium
sized branches off the ackee tree,and also the coconot
tree and traveling around was the same story branches
around the city,The wind were sustained between
20-25mph today,with a few gust of 30,35mph.

  People adjusted well, the entire city was in
sweaters,jackets some even went extreme and wore
winter coats (they must be hot instead).Jamaica is not
used to cold weather,but we are quite accustomed to
Cold front or northers , and are normally a indication
that Christmas is near.

For the past 48 hrs we have been under flash flood
watch.It was issued yesterday at 5pm for the entire
island.It is now extended as of 5pm today ,but now
only includes Western and Southern parishes.The opdem
and disaster planning officials have been put on alert
for prompt action if necessary.The odpem says there
has no reports of extended flooding although water has
risen moderately in some areas.The Montpelier main
road(In S in my parish was an exception news reports
said It was closed due to heavy rain which fell Monday
night,motorist had to seek alternate routes.It was
opened this afternoon.I recorded 12.7mm/0.30inches of
rain

The Forecast,
Today's cold front will stall just east of Jamaica
over the next 24hrs.Tommorow will continue to be
windy,but less  than today.The front that will stall
east of Jamaica will be forced by building high
pressure to retreat back into us on Thursday as a warm
front so if we have a break ,the next 24hrs will be
that break.It will be just West of Negril on Friday so
we will return to the rain Thursday and Friday and
possibly the weekend.The temperatures will start to
rebound a little tomorrow but more Thursday.
Below (radar of cold front now east of the island near
approaching haiti)


 
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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:53:47 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:30:33 -0500

• From: "Thea van der Elst" <thea_1012 at hotmail.com>
• Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:00:37 +0000

I'm glad i have 2 suitcases packed with sunshine ready!

One Love from Negril
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• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 05:54:27 -0800 (PST)

It started raining on and off in the early morning
hours around 2,3am.This morning I woke to very
dark,skies.There is no sunlight,and looks more like
night than morning.We are only experiencing overcast
skies but that can change at any moment.Currently
sections of the Island are experiencing ,heavy
rainfall and others, dark cloudy skies.Do not be
fooled because the entire Island will experience bad
weather for at least the next five days.

A area of low pressure has been developing in the
Western Caribbean ,centered about 120mi ssw of
Kingston.It will persist  over the next 24hrs
especally to the areas West of us.,It follows a cold
front now coming out of the United States will reach
the Central Bahamas southward to just West of
Jamaica,by daybreak tomorrow and will move across
Jamaica on Wednesday.Temperatures will be 4-5 degrees
below normal,with wicked winds which could gust up to
26 kts(30mph/48kph).The rain associated with the front
will not move much and will be just South of us on
Friday.If there are any changes I will give an update
this evening.


 
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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:18:37 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 13:25:28 -0800 (PST)

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:09:00 -0800 (PST)

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 18:40:02 -0800 (PST)

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 07:08:04 -0500

• From: "Thea van der Elst" <thea_1012 at hotmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:02:32 +0000

Yo Blayze, what's up with the big fonts?

One Love from Negril
Thea

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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:05:22 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 03:59:44 -0800 (PST)

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:11:17 -0800 (PST)

• From: "Thea van der Elst" <thea_1012 at hotmail.com>
• Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:33:38 +0000

One Love from sunny Negril
Thea

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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:45:06 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 22:19:01 -0800 (PST)

Conditions seemed to be improving as when I checked the skies they had changed from mostly cloudy to partly cloudy and patches of stars could be seen. The pressure was up to 1015mb and the humidity is going down. The satel;lite shows clear skiesandTomorrow or by time most would have seen this today will be great.

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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 22:45:12 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:32:10 -0500

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• Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:52:49 -0500

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• From: "Thea van der Elst" <thea_1012 at hotmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:18:03 +0000

Was wondering where you went .. Glad to see you are up and running now.

One Love from Negril
Thea

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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 07:57:36 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 19:54:14 -0800 (PST)

Yesterday I spoke about a cold front .It crept towards
us and at the last minute retreated north.Today as a
result of daytime heating a strong area of storms blew
up right over us in western Jamaica around 4pm.It
unleased a very heavy amount of rain.I was Downtown at
the time,After the rain the seemly clean streets were
covered in plastic bottles and forks, litter of every
shape and kind.                

     The airport(nearer to Downtown) picked up a
staggering 54.4mm(2.12inches)which fell for an hour.My
weather only picked up 12.7mm(0.5in).Around what
seemed to be hundreds of people could be seen around
the city on like the Capital of Kingston,Montego Bay
has no form of public transportation,And most people
depend on Taxis,People could not any taxis and when
one taxi came by the entire crowd headed for the one
taxi,pushing and running up to eight persons in one
taxi.
       To make matters worst,The traffic was wicked,It
normally takes 10minutes to reach my home today .It
took 1hour,The North coast Highway is under
construction  .I cant wait till its open It will be
more weather resistant and the problems which we
experience when it rains will be a thing of the past. 
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• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 05:24:44 -0800 (PST)

This morning I woke up to dark threatening skies
especially  looking to the North.The Doppler
radar(below) shows a cold front just north of the
island  Yesterday,(ahead of the front)We picked
up15.26mm (.6inch)of rain.Which fell between 6-7pm.The
front continues to slid SE and should pass over us
along the North Coast in a few hours,So showers and
Thunderstorms are expected today. 


 
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• From: "Thea van der Elst" <thea_1012 at hotmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:07:34 +0000

Hot day today, no cloud in this part of the sky over Jamaica.

I'm finding more and more pretty places in Jamaica.

Give thanks once more.

One Love from Negril
Thea

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• From: "Thea van der Elst" <thea_1012 at hotmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 19:07:50 +0000

It's sunny now and nice an' breezy. A wonderful day in Jamaica.

Yes, we are blessed indeed. Give thanks.

One Love from Negril
Thea

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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 00:07:08 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:21:19 -0800 (PST)

Its amazing what 12hrs can make.This morning I woke up
to strong gusty winds and a light drizzle There were
thin grey clouds high in the atmosphere which seemed
like someone covered us  with a sheet and We were the
lucky ones most of the Island received heavy rain
showers.The brezze made it feel cold.The periods
drizzle continued on and off until midday when the
clouds just vanished.The sun was out in force and the
glare of the sun was unbearable at times.High Pressure
is building south of us which should dry us out and
give a short  well needed break from the rain .The
satellite below shows the clearing condition across
the island and the surface analysis


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• From: "Thea van der Elst" <thea_1012 at hotmail.com>
• Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:07:27 +0000

Nice cool temperatures though for a change, wonderful!

One Love from Negril
Thea

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• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:16:14 -0800 (PST)

Today was  a rainy and stormy day in much of
Jamaica.There were some instances of flooding in
Eastern parish in which roads were innundated with
flood water,wThe waters has since receded except for a
road in (central Jamaica)Manchester were flood waters
are not receding and also a huge boulder which have
been washed into the road in the Above Rocks area of
St Andrew However the National work     Agency is working
on the sitution and motorist are asked to use the
alternate routes.In  Montego Bay,we had more dark and
threathening clouds that anything else light rain fell
in the early morning hours and around 6pm this
afternoon a few sprinkles,but on the good side today
was cool and refreshing the temperature ony got up to
30c at midday but for most of the day It was below
27c.Which is cooled by Jamaican standards.I recorded
only 5.08mm(0.20in).The pressure fell to 1010mb
(located over C29.82hg)
Todays heavy rainfall and gusty winds (sustained
25mph/21kts inKingston at 4pm) were assoicatedwestward 
moving tropical wave interacting with a cold front
located over Central Bahamas and Eastern Cuba,As I
type conditions are improving the presure has been
steadly rising (1012mb/29.88hg)outside the skies are
clearing up but is still cloudy.

The Tropical wave is been torn apart by unfavorable
upper level winds and because of that will be torn in
two partsthe northern part of the wave will be pulled
NE towards the Bahamas and Bermuda over the Next
couple of days and the rest will continue westward
towards the Yucatan Channel.Unsettled Weather will
however  continue over the Western and Central
Caribbean over the next couple of days.The models no
longer develop the system.
Weather Question:Do you know the difference between
Rain and Drizzle                                                                
                                
Drizzle is much lighter and numerous and are less than
0.5mm in sizeare associated with low clouds,fog and
low visibility.Drizzle seem to be floating from the
air and do not splash as it touches surfaces.While
rain is larger than 0.5mm,splashes when comes in
contact with surfaces .
Rain and Drizzle are actually formed in the same way,
i.e. a cloud becoming saturated and the "excess"
falling in the form of rain or drizzle. The difference
between rain and drizzle is simply the size of the
drop. The size of the drop depends upon the depth of
the cloud that it falls out of.  The deeper the cloud,
the bigger the drop. Think of it like this: Drops all
start out the same size(very tiny), but the longer it
takes for the drops to fall out of the cloud, the more
time they have to run into each other and combine to
bigger drops. Example: A thunderstorm can be 10?s of
thousands of feet deep, and big large drops fall from
them. However, the low clouds and fog that form under
the right conditions can be only a few hundred feet
deep! These clouds produce drizzle drops that are so
tiny that you can?t easily see them, but can feel them
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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:36:07 -0500

• From: "Thea van der Elst" <thea_1012 at hotmail.com>
• Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:55:04 +0000

The sun is back, but i see more dark skies ahead. Maybe more rain later.

One Love from Negril
Thea

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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 06:35:12 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:07:39 -0700 (PDT)

      Today was a warm day in  Montego Bay ,but the
humidity made it feel 
hot.The day progressed under mostly partly cloudy
skies until A 
Tropical Wave passed over us Which brought rain 3:18
,We had few 
only a few .
light showers of rain which was on and off for 45
mins.Which cooled us 
off and watered our gardens I recorded
3.85mm(0.15inches).We should 
get some sunshine before Monday (unless some
prefrontal arc clouds 
currently over Cayman drift to us) when the Tropical
Wave currently 
South of Puerto Rico should enhance showers and
thunderstorms across 
the island.Todays high 32.3(90.0)F The low
24.6C(76.3)F.
                                                      
                                                      
                                                    

Yesterday I spoke about a Tropical Disturbance,Which
was at the time 
affecting the Eastern Caribbean.It has since left them
and has it sights 
set on the Central and Western Caribbean.Barbados
picked up 
20.30mm(0.80in) from 8 am yesterday to 8am today and
Guadeloupe  
0.57in.The system looks less organized than yesterday
but still pose a 
threat even If it does not develop
Dom.Republic,Haiti,Cuba and us in 
Jamaica could get some really heavy rain out of it
.The disturbance is 
under 10 kts shear which would allow for some slow
development of the 
system.The models are indicting that if the
disturbance crosses Cuba and 
enters the Bahamas it may develop as early as next
week so we should 
keep a very close eye on it.I leave you with 1....
(Satellite 
showing tropical wave across the island
.)2...18zcaribbean surface analysis 3 satelite showing
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• Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:00:34 -0700 (PDT)

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:56:32 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:34:44 -0500

• From: "Thea van der Elst" <thea_1012 at hotmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:10:36 +0000

One Love from Negril
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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:58:49 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:55:06 -0700 (PDT)

Beautiful weather has been the order of the day in
Montego Bay today.Very few clouds a lone Cumulonimbus
cloud to my east.For most of today the typical winds
from the NE which ranged today from 8-10mph.They have
switched from the east.The satellite shows
thunderstorm to the east . North of MandevilleWest of
Ocho RiousThis is associated with a Surface to Upper
Level Trough west of the island.There is a very weak 
cold front  extending from central Bahamas - Central
Cuba-Belize.The front is stalled and will not affect
us.It will gradually  dissipate as a high Pressure
Ridge pushes into the area late Wednesday.We should
look for mostly partly cloudy conditions with barely a
chance of a shower Elsewhere There is a Tropical wave
east of Lesser Antilles It should continue to creep to
the islands over the next couple days but the heaviest
of it should across the Atlantic I leave you today
with some satellite pictures first the thunderstorms
to my east......2 general Infrared of the
hemisphere.....3 wave east of the Lesser
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• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:58:14 -0700 (PDT)

Today was sunny,The Air pressure up to 1015mb this
morning.Sudenly at 4:15 dark stratus clouds came
unshore clipping us along the coast with rain .It
started out as light rain but at 4:20 It came really
hard.There was no lighting .I
recorded1.50inches(38.1mm) which fell in 15minutes.t
has stopped raining the sky still dark but improving
there is a orange-red clouds in between the dark ones
to the ne.It is now 6:30 the showers are now offshore
to the north and east .A section of the system comes
onshore near Negril but  continues to move to the nw
in general direction of the Caymans. improving
conditions can be expected Tonignt.Todays high got up
to 31.9(c)/89.4(f).The Low 24.5(c)/76.1(f).The
humidity got up to before rain 100% and down to 52%
around 1pm.


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• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:56:32 -0700 (PDT)

Today was sunny,The Air pressure up to 1015mb this
morning.Sudenly at 4:15 dark stratus clouds came
unshore clipping us along the coast with rain .It
started out as light rain but at 4:20 It came really
hard.There was no lighting .I
recorded1.50inches(38.1mm) which fell in 15minutes.t
has stopped raining the sky still dark but improving
there is a orange-red clouds in between the dark ones
to the ne.It is now 6:30 the showers are now offshore
to the north and east .A section of the system comes
onshore near Negril but  continues to move to the nw
in general direction of the Caymans. improving
conditions can be expected Tonignt.Todays high got up
to 31.9(c)/89.4(f).The Low 24.5(c)/76.1(f).The
humidity got up to before rain 100% and down to 52%
around 1pm.


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• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:20:43 -0700 (PDT)

                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                            
Today it rain for the first since October 7th.It
started in the afternoon at 5pm and continued to
6:30.It was a drizzle to a light rain at times I
measured 8 mm(.3 inches) which is a far cry from what
our neighbors in the Leeward Islands have been
experiencing.What have been amazing have been the air
pressure way below normal for the past 2 days between
1006mb-1009mb.I checked the GFS Model Caribbean
http://www.edwards.af.mil/models/avn00/APSFC00.jpg    
Which revealed that the entire basin is about 1010mb,
but across Jamaica and Eastern Dominican Republic to
Puerto Rico is lower.There  is low pressure area near
Hispanola around 18n65w. A weak pressure gradient
persist over the Greater Antilles which has help to
trigger the showers we had today.The gfs has the weak
pressure gradient crumbling  and rising pressures.In
the Greater Antiles the pressure should rise in 48 hrs
to1012 and Lesser to 1014mb. Heavy Rains have continue
to affect the Northern Lesser Antilles.This has been
due to an area of low pressure just northeast of
Puerto Rico (90L).It has been producing heavy Rain and
gusty winds.Five inches 127mmof rain fell in the
Virgin Islands Yesterday and It is still raining the
current observation out of Christiansted, Henry E.
Rohlsen Airport, Virgin Islands
http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/TISX.html
shows heavy rains  sustained winds of 15mph and
gusting to 24mph(21kts).The Radar out of Martinique
http://www.meteo.fr/temps/domtom/antilles/pack-public/animation/animMOSAIC2.html
shows heavy rain (tropical wave)over Martinique and
disorganised shows and thunderstorms over Virgin
Islands .The Puerto Rico out of Puerto Rico has failed
so unfortunetly Ihave no doppler for you.90L is slowly
moving ne and Tropical Development is not impossible
but unlikely.The system should be away from all land
by saturday night so look improving conditions in the
Leeward islands.




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• From: "Thea van der Elst" <thea_1012 at hotmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:48:06 +0000

We are blessed.

One Love from Negril
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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:08:39 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:26:46 -0700 (PDT)

                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                            




Today was a sunny day.A few cumulus clouds here and
there.Lower humidiy a perfect beach day.Only one
noteworthy feature in the Tropics a Tropical
Disturbance off the Texas coast 
http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/post-goes    
     It looks quite impressive but development is
unlikely it is under 15kts of windshear
http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/shr_00.gif  Which
would normally allow for slow strengthing,But the
disturbance should go onshore the Eastern Texas
Soutern Louisana area, dumping 4-8in as it coninues
northward.                                            
      The latest quikscat
http://manati.orbit.nesdis.noaa.gov/dataimages21/cur/zooms/WMBds13.png
shows 30kts/35mph winds off the Texas.The trough
across http://stormcarib.com/mysat.cgi Puerto Rico and
the Virgin Islands is still lingering and should
continue to producer rain in that area.


Earthquake
A series of two dozen
earthquakes and aftershocks rocked the Hawaiian
islands this
morning, knocking out power, startling residents and
tourists
and causing some damage but no reported fatalities.

A series of two dozen
earthquakes and aftershocks rocked the Hawaiian
islands this
morning, knocking out power, startling residents and
tourists
and causing some damage but no reported fatalities. 

A 6.6 magnitude quake hit shortly after 7 a.m. local
time, 10 a.m. Pacific time, and nearly
two dozen aftershocks have followed, including one
measuring 5.8, according to the U.S.
Geological Survey. 

The largest temblor occurred about 10 miles
north-northwest of Kailua Kona, a town on
the west coast of the Big Island. 

The quake caused a landslide that blocked a highway on
Hawaii Island. Power outages
and spotty telephone reception prevented definitive
reports of damage, but unconfirmed
reports included collapsed ceilings and other
structural damage in homes and businesses.
A hospital on the Big Island was reportedly evacuated
because of structural damage.To add fire to fury a
cold front front is affecting the westernt islands and
flood watches have been posted. Lukily there is no
threat of a.Tsunami


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• From: "Thea van der Elst" <thea_1012 at hotmail.com>
• Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:28:19 +0000

One Love from Negril
Thea

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• Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 09:04:34 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:21:37 -0700 (PDT)

High pressure is in control today,  It wonderful day
to hit the beach.It is bright and sunny but not hot a
cool seabreeze from the NE ranging from 3-10mph and
lower than normal humdity (65%) makes today plesant.  
There are no worries in the Tropics,90L has fallen
apart.     A area of disturbed weather in the Western
Gulf of Mexico is
under 40kts of shear and will not develop any time
soon.    Today I will be teaching you about the
climate of my island and the factors that affect our
weather.                                              
                                                      
                            General.......   Jamaica
is an island with an area of 11,244 square
kilometres(or about 4,411 squaremiles).    The island
is surrounded by the warm waters of the Caribbean Sea 
  and is ocated in theTropics at approximately
latitude 18N and longitude 77W,   which is about4.5
degrees south of the Tropic of Cancer or about midway
between the southern tip of Florida and the Panama
Canal.        The Time Meridian is 75degrees West,
hence the Time Zone is Eastern Standard Time with
0000-hours being midnight or 0500-hoursUniversal
Coordinated Time (UTC) and 1200-hours being noon or
1700-hours UTC.           Among the most important 
climatic influences are the Northeast Trade Winds, the
range of mountains which runs east-southeast to
west-southwest along the centre of the island,     the
warm waters of the Caribbean Sea, and weather systems
such as upper-and low-level low-pressure centres,
troughs and cold fronts.         The cold fronts,
usually weak after migrating from the North American
continent, are evident from mid-October to mid-April;
whilst the Tropical Weather
 Systems, namely Tropical Waves, Tropical Depressions,
Tropical Storms and Hurricanes occur from April to
  December. The official hurricane season is from June
to November.The national Meteorological Service in
Jamaica maintains 24-hour communication withthe
National and Regional Hurricane Centre in Florida,
USA, especially during thehurricane season, thereby
ensuring the timely dissemination of forecasts and
warnings.                                             
   Rainfall......     Of theweather parameters,
rainfall is the most variable.Islandwide, during the
period 1951 to 1980, annual rainfall ranged
from a maximum of 2593 millimetres(102.09 inches) in
1963 to a minimum of 1324millimetres (52.13 inches) in
  1976 with an average of1940 millimetres (76.38
inches) annually.               Thehundred-year
(1881-1990) mean annual  rainfall is 1895 millimetres
(74.61 inches).          Historically, the wettest
yearon record was 1933 with an annual rainfall of
2690millimetres (116.54 inches) whilst the driest year
was1920 with an annual rainfall of 1299 millimet 
(51.14inches)       .      Some mountainous areas in
the islands northeastreceive more than 5080
millimetres (200 inches)annually,     whilst coastal
areas to the southeast andsouth-centre receive less
than 889 millimetres (35inches)annually.         
Yearly, most areas of the island have two distinct
wetseasons,     May to June and September
toNovember;these wet seasons occur as regularly yearly
cycles.        Most of the rainfall during the May to
June period is as a result of the periodic march of
solar radiation intensity       ,which peaks at that
time. During the period September
    to November the rainfall is more directly the
result of the lifting and movement of the sub-tropical
high-pressure
 cell in the Atlantic Ocean.      Such behaviour
deepens theeasterly Trades, allowing instability zones
to develop;as
  such, a significant portion of the rainfall during
this period is produced by upper- and low-level
troughs, tropical
  waves, tropical depressions, tropical storms and
hurricanes.             The driest period is usually
December to March. Most
   ofthe rainfall during this period is associated
with coldfronts migrating from North America.         
  Whether during the dry
  or rainy season, however, otherrain-producing
systems are influenced by the seabreeze and orographic
effe which tend to produce short-duration showers,
mainly during mid-afternoon.                      
Temperature ......Temperatures in coastal
  areas are comfortably warm, becoming cooler in the
hilly and mountainous regions in the centre of the
island,               but
  moreso in the Blue Mountain range with a peak of
2256 metres (7,402 feet).                         
Apart from rapid fluctuations
   associated with afternoon showers and/or the
passage of frontal systems, the islands temperatures
remain fairly
 constant throughout the year under the moderating
influence of the warm waters of the Caribbean Sea.    
             In coastal
  areas, daily temperatures average 26.2 degrees
Celsius (79.2F), with an average maximum of 30.3C
(86.5F)
and an average minimum of 22.0C (71.6F).              
         Inland, temperature values are lower,
depending on elevation but,
  regardless of elevation, the warmest months are June
to August and the coolest December to February. The
diurn   range of temperature is much greater than the
annual range and exceeds 11.0C or 20F in mountainous
areas of
 the interior.                      Night-time values
range from 18.9 to 25.6C (66 to 78.1F) in coastal
areas. At elevations above 610 metres (2000 feet),
minimum temperature of the order of 10C (50F) have
been reported occasionally when
 active cold fronts reach the island.                 
           Winds For most of the year, the daily wind
pattern is dominated by the
Northeast Trades. By day on the North Coast, the sea
breeze combines with the Trades to give an
east-northeasterly wind at an average speed of 15
knots (17 miles per hour), and along the South Coast, 
      an
east-southeasterly wind with an average speed of 18
knots (21 miles per hour). In the period December to
March,
 however,            the Trades are lowest and the
local wind regime is a combination of trades, sea
breeze, and a northerly or
  northwesterly component associated with cold fronts
and high-pressure areas from the United States.       
       By night, the
 trades combine with land breezes which blow offshore
down the slopes of the hills near the coasts.         
       As a result, on
 the North Coast, nighttime winds generally have a
southerly component with a mean speed of 5 knots (6
miles per
 hour) and on the South Coast, a northerly component
with a mean speed of 7 knots (8 miles per hour).      
             By day,
  from June to July, mean onshore winds often reach a
maximum of up to 23 knots (26 miles per hour) along
the
   North Coast and 26 knots (30 miles per hour) along
the South Coast during mid-afternoon.                 
However, winds are
 generally lighter inland and towards the west. Calms,
therefore, attain their highest frequency in the
western
   extremity of the island and in the two intervening
periods between the full development of the land and
sea
    breezes.                             
Sunshine..... Variations of sunshine from month to
month in any area are usually small, approximately one
 hour.       Differences, however, are much greater
between coastal and inland stations. Maximum
day-length occurs is June when 13.2 hours of sunshine
are possible and the minimum day-length occurs in
December when 11.0 hours    
   of sunshine are possible.     However, the mean
sunshine in mountainous areas is less than 6 hours per
day, while in
 coastal areas it is near 8 hours per day.    The
shorter duration in the hilly areas is caused mainly
by the persistence of
clouds.                   Relative Humidity.....
Afternoon showers are the major cause of most daily
variations in relative humidity.       Highest values
recorded during the cooler morning hours near dawn,
followed by a decrease until the early
 afternoon when temperatures are highest.     
Although relative humidity in coastal areas average
84% at 7 a.m.
temperatures at this time are in the mid 20s (C),
therefore, little or no discomfort results.      At 1
p.m. the average   relative humidity on the coasts is
71% while values in the plains will average about 77%
reflecting the effects of
afternoon showers in the nearby hills. Credit :Met
office Jamaica 



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• Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:54:53 -0700 (PDT)

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:51:29 -0700 (PDT)

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• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:41:44 -0700 (PDT)

Great weather has been the order of the past few
days,especially today, barely a cloudy in sight.High
pressure is the dominant feature affecting the Central
Caribbean .Which should persist.Allowing a gorgeous
weekend .Todays high got up to 32.6 The low 25.8.The
leeward Island have not been as lucky.The satellite
shows 
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/real-time/atlantic/images/xxirg8n.GIF
a trough extending from the North Atlantic cuts
through Northern leeward through to Venezula.The
trough should hang around providing shattered showers
and thunderstorms in the afternoon s.Also there is a
tropical disturbance 200 miles Nne of Puerto Rico.It
was responsible for the showers and thunderstorms
experienced in the Leeward Islands Wednesday and
Thursday.It was under 5-10 kts of shear and Tropical
development seemed possible .It has since move into a
less favorable environment and development is looking
less and less likely.Westerlies of 20-30 kts has
displaced the thunderstorms and the only significant
feature is a strong swirl. It appears that this system
will move to the west northwest and northwest into an
area of unfavorable conditions for tropical
development over the next couple of days before
turning southwest
and moving over Haiti and the Dominican Republic.This
should serve to destroy the circulation.  This is how
the models handle 90L
http://www.sfwmd.gov/org/omd/ops/weather/plots/storm_90.gif.


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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:08:22 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 05:04:10 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:11:42 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 17:22:00 -0700 (PDT)

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 17:15:57 -0700 (PDT)

Today for the first since last week, sunday,October
1st that Montego Bay has not picked up any
precipitation.This was due to a trough which was
over/near jamaica for most  of last week.This was what
I recorded each day    Sunday Oct 1   0.65inch/16.5mm
Monday 2nd  0.04inch/1 mm...  Tuesday 3rd trace .....
Wednesday 4th 0.15in/3.8mm Thursday 5th....0.85
inch/21.6mm....Friday 6th....0.60inch/
15.2mm....Saturday 7th 0.10/2.5mm  . Today the trough
is west of the island  affording us some
sunshine.There is very weak tropical wave east of
Jamaica along 71w with no associated convection just a
few scattered showers will occur over the eastern end
of the island and the usual  mountainous interior. 
Right now mostly clear  from mostly cloudy an hour
ago.Just a few cirrus clouds to the
northeast.currently (7:00pmTemp 27.8....Humdity 84%
Pressure 1013mb Winds.... calm Today's
high....91.2f/32.9c Low....79.7f/26.5c.                                         
                                In
the tropics                                                                     
The tropics is quiet the only
features is a upper level low  creating a large area
of thunderstorms off the coast of South Carolina.The
wind shear is relatively low (10kts) but will  not
persist long enough over warm waters to develop as
westerly winds will carry the disturbance towards ne
over cooler waters.The other feature is a area of
disturbed weather associated with the trough which has
been giving us so much rain.Wind shear is extremely
high (40kts) and development is impossible.El nino  is
ensuring a quiet time in atlantic Enjoy;


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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 11:48:33 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 22:19:31 -0700 (PDT)

                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                            




For the Third day running we had rain occasionally
which became ocassional heavy at times.Tuesday ,the
fourth of september .I recorded .15in/3.8mm of
rainfall.Yesterday  I recorded a  amazing
.85/21.6mm.What was amazing was the time frame this
fell in 20 min .What was even more impreesive was the
pressure,Which fell from1012 to 1009 mb.The lowest
since Ernesto passed at its closest point near Jamaica
near Haiti peninsula.The results of yesterday's rains
are still evident as pebles and stones are all over
the road.The Airport 5 mi east only recorded 4.5mm.The
Thunderstorm were less intense in that area.Today I
recored .6in/15.2mm of rain .This occured on and of
and started 5pm up to 8pm.All this due to a trough
extending from the Atlantic into the Central
Caribbean.The trough has not moved much,and is not
expected to over the next  4 days.As the days heat up
the air becomes unstable causing a bubbling of
thunderstorms daily between 2pm and 5pm.These rains
have taken a toll
on the roads many pothole riddled roads are now dug
up.On the bright side everywhere has been transformed
with greenry.The air is fresh and cool,and i dont have
to water my garden.


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• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 21:56:47 -0700 (PDT)

                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
           




                            For the Third day running
we had rain occasionally
                            which became ocassional
heavy at times.Tuesday ,the
                            fourth of september .I
recorded .15in/3.8mm of
                            rainfall.Yesterday  I
recorded a  amazing
                            .85/21.6mm.What was
amazing was the time frame this
                            fell in 20 min .What was
even more impreesive was the
                            pressure,Which fell
from1012 to 1009 mb.The lowest
                            since Ernesto passed at
its closest point near Jamaica
                            near Haiti peninsula.The
results of yesterday's rains
                            are still evident as
pebles and stones are all over
                            the road.The Airport 5 mi
east only recorded 4.5mm.The
                            Thunderstorm were less
intense in that area.Today I
                            recored .6in/15.2mm of
rain .This occured on and of
                            and started 5pm up to
8pm.The rains have taken a toll
                            on the roads many pothole
riddled roads are now dug
                            up.On the bright side
everywhere has been transformed
                            with greenry.The air is
fresh and cool,and i dont have
                            to water my garden.

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• From: "Thea van der Elst" <thea_1012 at hotmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:23:36 +0000

One Love from Negril
Thea

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 22:28:47 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 19:00:30 -0700 (PDT)

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 18:53:33 -0700 (PDT)

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 18:50:37 -0700 (PDT)

• From: suew at delja.net
• Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 20:41:45 -0500 (CDT)

After such an amazing dry spell, I sent an e-mail to Sue Morris offering a
trade....I would bring a bucket to her house to catch the few raindrops
coming off her roof... in exchange, I would hang out her laundry at my
house, since there was ABSOLUTELY no chance of precipitation.

Lo and behold, it has rained every day since - accompanied by a lot of
thunder and amazing lightning! All of you who are suffering from lack of
rain need to e-mail Sue and offer to put up her laundry in your yard....a
small offering to the moisture Gods!!

Sue Warnke
Ocho Rios, Jamaica

• From: "Thea van der Elst" <thea_1012 at hotmail.com>
• Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:00:37 +0000

It's not raining now and looks like clear skies approaching ..

One Love from cool cool Negril
Thea

• From: <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:02:36 -0500

Carpe Diem
Sue M

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 13:18:56 -0700 (PDT)

BUOY 44138 IN THE SOUTHWESTERN GRAND BANKS REPORTED PEAK WINDS IN 

EXCESS OF 50 KNOTS FOR TWO CONSECUTIVE HOURS AS ISAAC PASSED JUST TO 

THE WEST OF THE BUOY LO

CATION. SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHTS AT THE BUOY
 

REACHED 5 METRES. IT IS EXPECTED THAT WAVE HEIGHTS OF 6-7 METRES

ARE LIKELY RUNNING FARTHER EAST THROUGH THE GRAND BANKS. 

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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 08:44:20 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 19:24:41 -0700 (PDT)

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 17:29:16 -0500

• From: "Thea van der Elst" <thea_1012 at hotmail.com>
• Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 16:51:28 +0000

Maybe later, you never can tell ..

One Love
Thea

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:48:45 -0500

• From: "Thea van der Elst" <thea_1012 at hotmail.com>
• Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 18:10:53 +0000

Hey, i'm not complaining, just keep it boring, is just fine by me!

One Love from Negril
Thea

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 06:25:49 -0500

• From: <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:38:36 -0500

Sue M

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:27:47 -0700 (PDT)

• From: "Thea van der Elst" <thea_1012 at hotmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:31:46 +0000

One Love from Negril Jamaica
Thea

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:24:14 -0500

• From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
• Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:33:11 -0700 (PDT)

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:37:38 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 05:56:50 -0500

• From: "Thea van der Elst" <thea_1012 at hotmail.com>
• Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:29:16 +0000

Hey Sue, i'll do my best to remember what it is i did and do it again!

One Love from Negril
Thea

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:00:16 -0500

• From: "Thea van der Elst" <thea_1012 at hotmail.com>
• Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 18:49:21 +0000

Will try to send some rain your way, Sue,

One Love
Thea

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 10:47:57 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 23:18:33 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:03:34 -0500

• From: "Thea van der Elst" <thea_1012 at hotmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:10:23 +0000

Love and strength to those in less fortunate areas of the planet.

One Love
Thea

• From: "Thea van der Elst" <thea_1012 at hotmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:36:56 +0000

But today it's peaceful again and I give thanks for that.

One Love
Thea

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:34:09 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:39:24 -0500

• From: "Thea" <thea_1012 at hotmail.com>
• Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 16:17:10 +0200

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 22:08:27 -0500

• From: "O'Neil Clarke" <hurricane_spotter at hotmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:51:29 -0500

Howdy Ya'll,

O'Neil J CLARKE
Kingston, Jamaica

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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:34:23 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:26:02 -0500

• From: sancia hudson <krazydee77 at yahoo.co.uk>
• Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:09:13 -0700 (PDT)

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:54:30 -0500

• From: "O'Neil Clarke" <hurricane_spotter at hotmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:00:07 -0500

O'Neil J CLARKE
Kingston Jamaica

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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:08:12 -0500

• From: "O'Neil Clarke" <hurricane_spotter at hotmail.com>
• Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:58:34 -0500

Sue my dear,

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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:40:21 -0500

• From: "O'Neil Clarke" <hurricane_spotter at hotmail.com>
• Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:49:34 -0500

Howdy Partners,

                       Stay Safe.

O'Neil J CLARKE
Kingston Jamaica

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• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:41:22 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:32:57 -0500

• From: "Andre Marriott-Blake" <sean134 at msn.com>
• Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 22:57:29 +0000

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 09:23:31 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 03:32:51 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 16:04:57 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 22:59:41 -0500

• From: "Andre Marriott-Blake" <sean134 at msn.com>
• Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 20:33:12 +0000

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 13:30:34 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 18:10:12 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:19:35 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:19:29 -0500

• From: "Sue Morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
• Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:09:16 -0500