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Date: Wed Oct 29 2003 - 19:40:01 EST
October 29, 2003 6:29 p.m.
Typhoon Parma is still over the open North Pacific Ocean, where is
has strengthened into a potentially dangerous storm. Late Wednesday
afternoon, EST, the eye of Parma is 525 miles east-northeast of Iwo
Jima, Japan, and 930 miles north-northeast of Guam. Highest sustained
winds are up to 130 mph; it is heading towards the north-northeast at
10 mph. Parma is beginning to re-trace its earlier steps made last
week as it wheels clock-wise about a strong upper-atmospheric ridge.
Once back on a northeasterly heading, Parma is forecast to get swept
up in the westerly jet stream, which would accelerate the storm
towards the International Date Line and ultimate transformation to a
mid-latitude wave cyclone. No land is anywhere near the forecast path
of Parma.
A strong fall storm has spread unsettled weather from the Black
Sea to northwestern Arabia since last weekend. In northern Turkey,
soaking rains off the Black Sea have amounted to 2 to 4 inches along
much of the shore -- Giresun had 3.7 inches of it -- while snows have
blanketed the nearby North Anatolian Mountains. Inland, enough snow
has fallen to whiten a wide are of middle Turkey, much of which is an
inter-mountain upland. One snowy spot as of Wednesday was the city of
Kayseri. Farther south, the first wetting rains of the season swept
from the Mediterranean Sea to the northern Levant; one spot in the
highlands of Lebanon had 1.5 inches of rain. The storm also unleashed
high winds and dust storms. Tuesday, winds gusting 40-50 mph cut
visibility to a few hundred yards at Dimashq -- Damascus -- Syria.
Much the same, high winds and thick blowing dust hit much of Jordan
on Wednesday.
October's been a warm month along the foot of Canada's Rocky
Mountains. Tuesday and early Wednesday, the reality of the calendar
began to set in as a norther triggered snow, or cold rain that
switched to snow as the temperature dipped. Near daybreak, Tuesday,
snow lay 3 to 6 inches deep over much of Alberta -- it was already 3
inches deep with steady, wind-swept snow falling at Calgary -- and
temperatures were in the 20s, or about average, and were falling.
A fierce windstorm blasted the Fallieres Coast of the Antarctica
Peninsula Tuesday to Tuesday night. At Argentina's San Martin base,
sustained winds were clocked at 70-80 mph for 6-12 hours. Wind-whipped
snow cloaked the outpost cutting the visibility to nil as temperatures
hovered in the middle 10s.
Wednesday, cloudbursts unloaded 6.3 inches of rain within only six
hours on the island of Pohnpei (Ponape). The 12-hour tally was 7.5
inches on this western North Pacific island belonging to the Federated
States of Micronesia.
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