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Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 19:40:01 EST
November 20, 2003 6:24 p.m.
The passage of a cold front triggered locally heavy rain on the
Caribbean shores of Honduras late Wednesday night into Thursday. The
city of La Ceiba, for example, was soaked by 4.2 inches of rain within
12 hours as of early Thursday afternoon.
Tropical Cyclone Beni has been steadily weakening over the South
Indian Ocean. As of late Thursday afternoon, EST, Beni's top sustained
winds are down to 40 mph. Centered about 485 miles to the southwest of
Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory, the cyclone is moving
westward at 13 mph. Dissipation on an open-water, westward track is
forecast for Beni within two days.
A new tropical storm is gathering strength over the western North
Pacific Ocean near the eastern Caroline Islands. As of late afternoon
Thursday, EST, the unnamed tropical storm has highest sustained winds
of 40 mph about a center which is about 95 miles southwest of Ujelang
Atoll and 180 miles northeast of Pohnpei Island. The storm has been
moving westward at only 4-5 mph. Forecasts call for this cyclone to
strengthen markedly on a west-northwestward path during the next
several days; indeed, it may become a powerful typhoon before the end
of the weekend. On its projected course, the storm would skirt the
Caroline Islands to the north then pass between Guam and Yap Sunday or
Monday. All islands from Chuuk to the southern Marianas and Yap could
be threatened by this potentially dangerous storm.
Southern British Columbia, Canada, has weathered a bout of
excessive rains in recent days. One particularly rainy spot has been
Hope, a town east of Vancouver on the banks of the Fraser and
Coquihalla Rivers. Here, four-day rainfall ended late Thursday
morning, local time, was 8.2 inches.
For the second time this week, the South Pacific island of
Tutuila, American Samoa, was pelted by downpours Wednesday. Heavy
showers unloaded 3.0 inches of rain at Pago Pago raising the weekly
tally to 8.4 inches.
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