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Date: Fri Jan 23 2004 - 19:40:00 EST
January 23, 2004 7:10 p.m.
A severe winter storm Thursday and Friday spanned a wide area
from Ukraine to the northeastern Sahara and from Greece to northern
Arabia. High winds, and whiteouts in heavy snow and blowing snow
characterized the storm on the eastern Balkan Peninsula northward to
southern Ukraine, and in western Anatolia, Turkey. At Istanbul,
Turkey, the storm began as soaking rain, but this gave way to heavy
snow driven by winds of 40-60 mph. Friday began with 6 inches of snow
on the ground, and the storm's output of rain and snow was equivalent
to 2.3 inches. Worse was the storm's lashing of Bandirma, where winds
at the height of the storm were clocked to 85 mph in gusts. Heavy
rain, then snow, was equivalent to 3.4 inches, and snowfall was about
10 inches. Tekirdag and Qanakkale picked up enough snow for a depth
of 12 inches as of early Friday; Qanakkale had water equivalent from
the storm of 4.6 inches. Farther north, gales, 60-mph gusts and
whiteouts were observed in eastern Romania, also near the Black Sea
coast of Ukraine. Far to the south, gales wheeling about the southern
limb of the storm whipped up unusually widespread and severe
"khamsin" dust storms over Libya and Egypt. Choking dust with
visibility down to 100 yards at times Thursday shrouded Cairo; Friday,
it was less severe. But in Luxor, visibility held between 100 and 300
yards throughout Friday. Winds ferried the dust across the eastern
Mediterranean Sea to Syria, Lebanon, Israel, the West Bank, and
northern Jordan, where in mingled with heavy downpours of rain.
Latakia, Syria, early Friday morning was lashed by wind squalls to 80
mph.
Rainfall over northern India and northeastern Pakistan for the
last two to three days has been substantial, often amounting to 100
to 200 percent of mean monthly rainfall. Near the Himalayan foothills
of India, Dehra Dun picked up 2.9 inches of rain as of Friday
afternoon. Rainfall of 1.9 inches at Patiala and Jabalpur bested
average January rainfall for the respective sites.
Heavy snows off the Sea of Japan have lately blanketed western
and northwestern Honshu, Japan. Aizuwakamatsu picked up more than two
feet of fresh snow within 24 hours ended Friday evening. At Kanazawa,
things were wetter owing to proximity with the sea: snow, some with
thunder, left water equivalent of 3.1 inches and a snow depth near 20
inches as of Friday.
Friday dawned quite chilly in parts of western Cuba, especially
away from the coasts. At the Jose Marti Airport serving Havana, the
temperature dipped to 48 degrees.
Thundery downpours unleashed 5.2 inches of rain upon the South
Pacific island of Vanua Lava, Vanuatu, Thursday to Friday, local time.
Soaking rains have struck parts of northern Mindanao Island,
Philippines, recently. The city of Surigao, for example, was pelted by
about 5.0 inches of rain within six hours early Friday, local time.
Another cloudburst, this one only 6-12 hours earlier, left almost 3.7
inches of rain.
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