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Date: Thu Jan 29 2004 - 19:40:01 EST
January 29, 2004 7:06 p.m.
Thursday, Cyclone Elita is inland and dissipating over rugged
northern Madagascar. Landfall happened Wednesday near Majunga, where
rainfall was more than one foot within 36 hours; at the time, highest
sustained winds were about 70 mph.
Cyclone Frank Thursday is becoming a storm to be reckoned with,
albeit an open-water storm. Late Thursday afternoon, EST, Frank is
over the open Indian Ocean about 440 miles east-northeast of
Mauritius. Its highest winds are up to nearly 105 mph; it is drifting
towards the southwest at 5 mph. The storm is forecast to become a
powerful and dangerous cyclone over open waters within the next day or
two.
A new cyclone, not yet named, is over the eastern South Indian
Ocean. It is 240 miles northwest of Australia's remote Cocos, or
Keeling, Islands as of late Thursday morning, EST. With highest
sustained winds of 40 mph, the storm is moving toward the southeast at
11-12 mph. Strengthening on a southward heading is forecast for the
next 24-48 hours. Such a path would take the core of this cyclone to
the west of the Cocos Islands.
Bitter arctic cold hovered again early Thursday over much of
central and northwestern Canada. Key Lake in the far north of
Saskatchewan dipped 62 degrees below zero for a second-straight day.
In Manitoba, Winnipeg reached 40 below for the first since early
February, 1996.
Unusually cold weather has gripped the British Isles this week,
and parts of the United Kingdom have been snowy, too. The heaviest
snows fell on the Scottish Highlands. Early Thursday, snow lay 9
inches deep at Aviemore, and 11 inches blanketed Glenlivet. On the
North Sea coast of Scotland, snow cover reached 5 inches at Aberdeen.
Squally bursts of snow spread southward to the heart of England. A
late-day burst of snow Wednesday left an inch of snow over London,
and even had thunder in the heart of the city. Norfolk, in eastern
England, had enough snow and drifting to shut schools and snarl road
traffic.
Thursday, rainfall at Batan, Indonesia, near Singapore, was 8.9
inches. Within several hours, 3.5 inches splashed Singapore in a
cloudburst.
Late Wednesday into Thursday, gales lashed Bermuda. Sustained
winds were 30-40 mph nearly the entire time, but they peaked near 50
mph early Wednesday evening, local time. Many gusts of 55-65 were
registered.
Strong winds also whipped some highland areas of central Mexico
on Thursday. The city of Zacatecas weathered sustained winds of 50
mph for 3-6 hours as of late afternoon, local time.
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