The second meeting of 2011 will be on Monday 7th February at 7pm at The Fighting Cocks.

This meeting has had to be arranged for the first Monday of the month due to St Valentine's Day being on the second Monday.

Professor Arnold Taylor who lives on the Island has very kindly offered to give us a talk on '"How forecastable is the natural world?" which will be about the effect of global weather patterns on the natural world.

This talk will be based on his forthcoming book 'The Dance of Air and Sea: How Oceans, Weather and Life Link Together'' which will be published by Oxford University Press on 10 February.

Professor Taylor is a Fellow of the Plymouth Marine Laboratory.

Café Scientifique evenings are free, but it is customary to ask participants at the end of the evening for a donation towards the cost of the speaker's meal and/or travel expenses.