Four Hurricanes and a Funeral: Quantum dynamics at the macro-scale?

    Does quantum phenomena--Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle--apply at the macro-scale?  Do we alter phenomena by observing it?  Certainly it could be pointed out that our modern day ability to be aware of phenomena has been drastically increased.  From my desk in what has been a perfectly sunny day with no apparent storm in sight, I can actually "see" four hurricanes all occurring at the same time (August 15, 2007, 11 p.m.): Sepat (Philippines), Erin (Texas), Dean (Atlantic), and Flossie (Hawaii). (See image below.)   "Primitive man", and nineteenth century philosophers for that matter, would have been completely oblivious to these global trends.  Certainly, while my personal ability to perceive these events obviously did not create these phenomena, one could claim that the very existence of satellites, computers, and telecommunications systems which allow me to see these hurricanes have contributed to global warming, and hence to the unusual phenomenon.  Satellites had to get there by burning drastic amounts of fuels. The manufacture of silicon chips in computer uses up a lot of water, and the electricity increasingly needed to run vast databanks continually increases exponentially.  While Charles Darwin would not have been able to know that there were four concurrent hurricanes worldwide, he would not have needed to--because the incidence (and likelihood) would have been much lower.   Does the "uncertainty principle" of the very small apply to the very large?  It doesn't.  But it is very surprising that four hurricanes are globally occurring at the same time.