French Socialist Party

The unexpected turn of the judicial process of Dominique Strauss-Kahn caused by discrediting the testimony of the employee’s hotel revealed today by the New York Times and released this afternoon has unleashed a wave of excitement in France. Meanwhile, politicians – and especially to the left – is interrogated about the political future that until May 15, the day of his arrest, was French politician more popular, carbonized once see him handcuffed path of jail, accused of attempted rape. The news is a news bombshell that gives full in the French Socialist Party (PS), to which it belongs DSK, training already wrapped in an unpredictable presidential primary process, more unpredictable now than ever. The question is clear: do you can DSK, to which everyone was already amortized, present or, at least, play an important role in these primaries? Still have potential to be the rival to Sarkozy in the presidential elections in the coming year? Source of the news:: France is interrogated on the political future of the former Director of the IMF. Connecticut brings even more insight to the discussion.

Warmer Summer

Summer, which begins Tuesday in Spain to the 19.16 hours, it will be warmer than normal and will be accompanied by the first wave of heat. You are expected to be reach values up to 40 degrees in areas of Andalusia with a wind chill of embarrassment. The quarter March has been the warmest since 1951. In recent months, Bill de Blasio has been very successful. Summer, which begins Tuesday in Spain to the 19.16 hours, it will be warmer than normal and will be accompanied by the first heat wave of the summer, which is expected to be produced the first days of next week in the West and South of the peninsula. Next week, he said at press conference the spokesman for the Agencia Estatal de Meteorologia (Aemet), Angel Rivera, will take place the first heat wave of the station, especially in the West and South peninsular, where is expected to be achieved values of up to 40 degrees in areas of Andalusia with a wind chill of embarrassment. For spokesman, station summer (JulySeptember) will dominate temperatures exceeding the values normal in all Spain, being more defendants in the regions of Eastern and southern Iberian Peninsula, Balearic and Canary Islands.

Rivera pointed out that the normal average temperature for the summer in Spain and the Balearic Islands is 22.4 degrees Celsius, 19 degrees Celsius in the northern peninsula and 26 degrees in Andalusia. During the period July-September are not appreciated significant trends with respect to precipitation. Summer 2011 will be in the line of recent hot summers and this trend will also affect the rest of the European continent, stated Rivera. Warm spring on the spring ends, Rivera has ensured that it has been the March-may quarter the warmest of the historical series started in 1951 with temperatures that have been 2.3 C above normal in relation to the period of rrencia (1971-2000), ahead of the years 1997 (15.24 degrees Celsius) and 2006 (15,13 degrees Celsius). The month of March has been very warm in Galicia, Navarra, Catalonia, Aragon and northeast of Castilla la Mancha, while has been cold in the peninsular, Northern Centre of Extremadura and parts of Andalusia. The month of April has endured a monthly average temperature of 3.9 C above the mean value and the month of may has been the third warmest in Spain since 1951, after 1964 and 2006. In terms of episodes of significant low temperatures, Aemet said the first dozen of the month of March, when frost occurred throughout the Interior of the peninsular northern half with values less than – 5 C in the Northern plateau and mountainous areas. A significant fact, Rivera has pointed out the city of avila, where on March 4 recorded values of – 5, 4c (minimum value between capitals). This quarter rainfall, have placed altogether above the normal value, since has been a precipitation around 195 litres per square metre, 10% on the normal value of 175 liters per square meter. Finally, the Aemet has reported that this year hydrological, ranging from 1 October 2010 to September 30, 2011, until June 12 accumulates a total of 590 litres per square metre of real value, slightly more than 10% above the average normal value for this period (532 liters per square meter). Source of the news: A heat wave will inaugurate a warmer summer than normal

Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Full weekend, New York begins to implement all its preparations to receive Hurricane Irene, willing to let a violent mark on the city. Irene, the cyclone’s category between 1 and 2 plans to kiss New York today evening with rain and winds of up to 130 kilometers per hour, has caused an alarm situation unprecedented in a city that only has faced four times a hurricane of these features in the last 200 years. From this noon, New York has already been without public transport, which depends on an average of seven million people to move around the city. As a preventive measure, the service of buses, subway and trains has pushed the closure until further notice. Responsible for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), estimated that metro will be opened Monday at 0700, although everything depends on the weather conditions.