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Date: Tue Jan 27 2004 - 19:40:01 EST
January 27, 2004 6:29 p.m.
The southern Indian Ocean has, as of Tuesday, two tropical
cyclones. First of these is Elita, which is bearing down on Madagascar.
Late Tuesday morning, EST, Elita is 60 miles west-southwest of Besalampy,
Madagascar. Elita, with 40-mph top sustained winds, is drifting
towards the north-northeast at 6 mph. Elita is forecast for the next day
or two to loiter near northwestern Madagascar, even making landfall.
Already, rainfall within the last day or two has been 10.8 inches in
Manintirano, and 9.8 inches in Besalampy. But the most stunning
highlights stemming from Elita flowed from Juan de Nova, an island in
the Mozambique Channel. As gales lashed the island, rainfall within 48
hours reached 28 inches.
The other cyclone is over open waters. Late Tuesday afternoon,
EST, this un-named cyclone is located about 620 miles southwest of
Diego Garcia of the Chagos Archipelago. Its highest winds are above 50
mph and it is drifting to the south-southeast at 6 mph. The cyclone is
forecast to strengthen slowly over open waters for the next two to
three days.
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!
Bitingly-cold "bora" winds lashed western British Columbia,
Canada, Monday night and early Tuesday. Heavy, dense arctic cold,
pooled over western Canada deepened enough to pour over the Coast
Ranges to the sea with a boost from winds aloft, but also from
gravity. At Grey Inlet, temperatures near daybreak hovered in the mid
teens as winds surged above 70 mph. Cathedral Point, tucked up a fjord
cut into the Ranges, observed 70-75 mph northeasterly winds and
temperatures in the lower teens. The city of Prince Rupert shivered
at 15 degrees whereas the average low was 31.
Northwestern Canada early this week had some of its coldest
weather, not only of the winter thus far, but since the start of the
century. Early Tuesday in northern Alberta, the low at High Level was
55 degrees below zero. Peace River dipped to 52 below for its
second-straight -50. Edmonton reached -42 and was still dropping.
Northern Saskatchewan had -57 in Meadow Lake, and -56 in Key Lake.
Yukon Territory had lows of 56 degrees below zero at Mayo and Watson
Lake. Whitehorse, the capital, was clenched in ice fog at -49
degrees, or three degrees shy of the record low for the date.
Soaking rains hit parts of northeastern Brazil Monday night.
Within a little more than twelve hours, for example, 5.5 inches of
rain poured down upon Teresina.
Abnormal wintertime downpours struck India's Andaman Islands on
Monday. Within about six hours, rainfall was 4.1 inches at Port Blair,
South Andaman. The average rainfall for all of January here is about
1.6 inches, so this cloudburst was equal to about 2.5 times the
monthly mean.
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