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Date: Wed Jun 18 2003 - 10:40:01 EDT
June 18, 2003 9:54 a.m.
Wednesday, the powerful Typhoon Soudelor churned into the East
China Sea. Before daybreak, EDT, the eye of Soudelor was about 240
miles northeast of Taipei, Taiwan, or 195 miles west-northwest of
Naha, Okinawa, Japan, Soudelor was headed towards the north-northeast at
17 mph with top sustained winds of 130 mph. Soudelor was forecast to
head for the Korea Strait dividing Korea and southwestern Japan
before entering the Sea of Japan. Such a path would threaten
southeastern Korea and southwestern Japan with high winds and
torrential rains.
Early Wednesday, local time, Typhoon Soudelor whipped the
Sakishima Islands of Japan. Lying east of Taiwan, these tropical
islands weather gales and hurricane gusts.
Well away from Typhoon Soudelor, heavy rains doused southwestern
Japan beginning last weekend. Since Sunday, rainfall was 9.5 inches
at Shimizu, though more than 6 inches of these fell early Wednesday.
Kagoshima had 7.5 inches of rain within the same three-day's span.
Wednesday alone, rainfall was 4.6 inches at Fukue. The rains were
bolstered by moisture and energy out of Soudelor that interacted with
a weak, stalled cold front. Meantime, on the South Korean island of
Cheju, rainfall at Sogwipo was 7.1 inches within 24 hours Wednesday.
The North Pacific Ocean near Mexico was home to a small tropical
storm dubbed "Blanca". Early Wednesday morning, Tropical Storm Blanca
was nearly stationary about 170 miles south-southeast of Manzanillo,
Mexico, its highest winds being a bit over 50 mph. Blanca was forecast
to slip slowly towards the west and the northwest for the next two to
three days; moderate strengthening was also foreseen. Were Blanca to
follow such a path, it would drift away from land.
Drenching rains hit the Bermuda Islands Tuesday. Within 12 hours
to midafternoon, rainfall was 3.8 inches. The average rainfall for all
of June here is 4.4 inches. In contrast, the first 16 days of the
month were quite dry with rainfall only about 30% of the mean. Some
strong winds came with this soaking storm -- gusts to nearly 40 mph
were clocked.
At the Mawson station of East Antarctica, sustained winds reached
70 to 80 mph for several hours Tuesday at temperatures slightly below
the 10-degree mark. Wednesday's weather was about as harsh, as
sustained winds topped 70 mph at times.
Warming waters of the Gulf of Oman have made for some remarkable
observations of humidity along neighboring shores of the Arabian
Peninsula. At Al Fujayrah, UAE, dew points above 90 degrees made for
AccuWeather RealFeel Temperatures (tm) of 135-140 degrees Tuesday and
again Wednesday.
Formosa, in northern Argentina, had rainfall of 4.1 inches early
Tuesday through Wednesday morning.
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