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Date: Sat Jul 17 2004 - 19:40:01 EDT
July 17, 2004 4:24 p.m.
Saturday, thick smoke from bush fires shrouded a swathe over
Yukon Territory, Canada. At Dawson, choking smoke from nearby fires
has filled the air much of this week causing visibility to dip as low
as one-fourth of a mile. Friday, plans for evacuation were laid,
although fires at the time were at least 9 miles away.
Friday's low of -112.5 degrees was, by a narrow two-tenths of a
degree, the lowest temperature of the year thus far at the Vostok
station, Antarctica. However, within about 24 hours, the temperature
had soared, without the help of solar warming, to -60, or more than 52
degrees.
Friday and Friday night, local time, hurricane-strength winds
belted Australia's Casey base on the shores of East Antarctica. Winds
blew steadily at 60 mph and higher for more than 15 hours, and rose
above 80 mph for at least 3 of these hours. Temperatures climbed from
near 0 degrees to 15 as wind-whipped snow blew through the air.
Another site of hurricane-strength winds was the Sky-hi station in
Ellesworth Land, West Antarctica. Early Saturday, winds were clocked
above 80 steady mph.
Friday and Saturday, torrential rains splashed across the
southern North China Plain in the nation's teaming heartland.
Rainfall at Xihua was 7.6 inches. In nearby mountains, Tai Shan
picked up 9.1 inches of rain within less than 24 hours.
Saturday began with a harsh winter chill over the southern
cordillera of Patagonia, where a cold wave began at mid week. Along
the Chilean side, Balmaceda set consecutive lows of 9 and 10 degrees
below zero Thursday and Friday -- nearly 40 degrees below average --
and was near zero degrees before daybreak, Saturday. Thursday's high
of 14 degrees was 26 degrees below normal. The cold was fostered by
light winds and fair skies over snow cover within a strong polar high.
Strong thunderstorm winds, with gusts as high as 70 mph, tore
through Irkutsk and Angarsk, in Russia's Siberian region near Lake
Baikal, on Friday evening. The winds downed trees, power lines and
billboards and resulted in six deaths.
Summery heat and humidity, with temperatures soaring well into
the 80s, was followed by an outbreak of sudden, strong thunderstorms
across the Low Countries and western Germany on Saturday. The storms
quickly knocked the temperatures from the 80s back down into the 60s
while unleashing wind gusts over 50 mph and torrential, if brief,
downpours.
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