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Date: Mon Jan 26 2004 - 19:40:00 EST
January 26, 2004 7:02 p.m.
A staggering outburst of tropical rain late last week was reported
from the island of Borneo. In Kuching, state of Sarawak, Malaysia,
three-day rainfall was 28 inches. Further, rainfall for the week was
nearly 36 inches -- three feet!
The French-held island of Juan de Nova, between Africa and
Madagascar, Sunday and Monday was lashed by squalls and washed by
heavy rains. Rainfall was 13.8 inches within about 24 hours ended
early Monday afternoon. Culprit behind the squalls seemed to be a
budding tropical cyclone.
Indeed, a tropical cyclone has come to life over the Mozambique
Channel near the shores of western Madagascar. As of late Monday
afternoon, EST, Tropical Cyclone Elita holds highest sustained winds
of 40 mph about a center which is 145 miles north-northwest of
Morondava, Madagascar, and 275 miles west of Antananarivo. The
cyclone is drifting sluggishly toward the southeast at 3-4 mph.
Gradual strengthening and a very slow, erratic drift are forecast for
this cyclone into Wednesday keeping it near the west coast of
Madagascar. Excessive, flooding rains will almost certainly hit
western parts of the country during upcoming days.
Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina, sweltered under searing heat,
high humidity and strong sunshine on Monday. At the inland Ezeiza
airport, the temperature spiked to 99 degrees, a reading which was
well above the 84-degree average high for the date. Even at the
city's waterfront, 95 degrees was reached. Here, winds turned onshore
by early afternoon dropping the temperature several degrees, but also
hiking the humidity.
Nasty weather was felt throughout Toronto, Canada, on Monday.
Arctic air blowing into the city on the heels of strong easterly winds
instigated rare lake effect snows off Lake Ontario. On Toronto Island,
winds blew steadily between 30 and 40 mph and gusted 40-50 mph as
temperatures slowly rose into the upper 10s. The persistent snow held
visibility to one-eighth of a mile most of the day. The AccuWeather
RealFeel Temperature (tm) hovered 15 to 20 degrees below zero.
Snowfall as measured at the inland Pearson airport was 2 inches. Later
in the afternoon, a more widespread, light snow spread over the area
in response to a storm over the American Midwest.
The week has begun on a very rainy note on parts of New Zealand's
South Island. On the island's west coast, the town of Haast was doused
by 6.2 inches of rain within 36 hours ended Monday evening, local time.
A remarkable spike in temperature happened late last weekend in
western Greenland. The site was Sondrestromfjord (Kangerlussuaq in
Inuit) tucked near the head of a long fjord at the toe of the
Greenland icecap. Saturday's range in temperature was from 39 to 28
degrees below zero, or about 30 degrees below average both for high
and for low. Warming from the open Atlantic followed, and late
Sunday, the temperature soared to 50 degrees, including a rise of 40
degrees in four hours. Only about 36 hours separated the opposing
extremes that were 89 degrees apart.
Arctic cold Sunday and Monday gripped Yukon along with a vast
swath of Canada. The territorial capital, Whitehorse, early Monday
reached 45 degrees below zero, the first time it was this cold in five
years. The daily record low of 47 below zero was just missed. Other
readings from Yukon included -56 at Mayo, -54 at Burwash Landing, -56
at Dawson, and -51 at Carmacks.
Snow Monday whitened northern France. About one inch stuck across
greater Paris. Snowfall was 2 inches at Nancy, and 3 inches at
Mulhouse near the Rhine River.
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