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Mexico’s Popocatapetl volcano has been active recently, with numerous explosions of ash and gasses being ejected as high as thirty thousand feet.The Mexican Geophysical Institue has put up an excellent volcano monitoring page with two live views of the volcano, renewed every minute. The site is in Spanish. To see the live views click on Tamano A or Tamano B. Depending on atmospheric conditions, the volcano may or may not be visible at any given time. For the last two weeks of daily photos, click here.

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Researcher Jim Marrs, one of the leading experts on the Kennedy assassination, has published an article about the JFK-UFO connection, revealing that Kennedy was aware of the UFO issue and concerned about it. Marrs details numerous points of connection between Kennedy and secret UFO knowledge. He reports that Bill Holden, load supervisor on Air Force One in 1963, has stated that the subject of UFOs came up in conversation aboard the plane. Holden asked the President what he thought about UFOs. The reply was “I’d like to tell the public about the alien situation, but my hands are tied.” Visit Jim at The View From Marrs.

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The highly regarded forecast team led by Dr. William Gray at Colorado State University’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences issued an updated forecast for the 2000 hurricane season on June 7. Previous forecasts had called for moderating hurricane activity in the Atlantic as a result of an anticipated lessening of La Nina conditions in the Pacific. However, the state of the Pacific has not changed as much as anticipated, and, according to the forecasters, “the Atlantic hurricane season in 2000 is expected to be slightly less active than the four recent very busy years” but “should notably be more active than the mean for the recent period of 1970 through 1994.” Eight hurricanes are expected this year, with half of them expected to be intense. For forecast details, click here.
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The National Climatic Data Center reported yesterday that meteorological spring – March through May – averaged 55.5 degrees Fahrenheit over theUnited States. That’s 0.4 degrees warmer than the previous record, set in 1910. The agency also noted that the United States experienced the hottestJanuary-May in 106 years of record-keeping, a report sure to stir the debate over the potential threat of global warming.

On a global basis, land and ocean surface temperature readings also were warmer than normal, tying 1990 as the second warmest spring on record. Heat waves swept China, India and Europe, with 90 degree temperatures reached inParis and London.

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