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Date: Tue Aug 31 2004 - 19:40:01 EDT
August 31, 2004 5:41 p.m.
Eyes are turned now towards Super Typhoon Songda as it bears down
on the Northern Mariana Islands. Late Tuesday afternoon, EDT, violent,
dangerous Super Typhoon Songda has an eye about 210 miles
north-northeast of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. Churning towards
the northwest at 10 mph, Songda wields highest sustained winds of 150
mph and top gusts of 185 mph. The next 12 hours will bring the worst
of Songda to the northern half of the Mariana Island arc. Afterwards,
the dangerous storm will return to open waters of the eastern
Philippine Sea.
Chaba is now a tropical depression undergoing transition into an
extra-tropical cyclone. Racing towards the northeast over the
southern Sea of Okhotsk, Chaba is leaving a path of high winds and
downpours in its wake over northern Japan, and it is still buffeting
the Kuril Islands of the Russian Far East.
Winds and rains of Chaba over northern Japan Tuesday were a far
cry from those unleashed upon the nation's southwest. Still, gusts of
40 to 60 mph were observed widely on Hokkaido and northern Honshu. At
least as windy was greater Tokyo, where the storm's downwash Tuesday
helped to send temperatures above the 90-degree mark.
The southwestern island of Kyushu, together with the northern
Ryukyu Islands, bore the brunt of Chaba's encounter with Japan. Near
the big storm's landfall, wind gusts of 75 to 105 mph were widely
observed, Kanoya registering some of the highest of these. Rainfall
of 4 to 8 inches was widespread including 7.5 inches at Kagoshima. On
the island of Tanegashima, rainfall was about 15 inches, mostly
within 24 hours.
Howard is the latest tropical storm hosted by eastern Pacific
waters. Late Tuesday afternoon EDT, Howard is located 420 miles
southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico. The storm is moving towards the
west-northwest at 13 mph with highest sustained winds of 65 mph.
Forecast both to strengthen and to head towards the northwest for the
next two days, Howard is a near-term threat to land for only Mexico's
Revillagigedo Islands including Clarion.
Late Monday, winds of hurricane strength lashed the northern tip
of the Antarctica Peninsula. At the Esperanza station, steady winds
of 80 mph were clocked amidst blowing snow and temperatures in the
upper 20s.
The island of Bach Long Vi, Vietnam, had 28 inches of rain within
three days ended Monday evening, local time. The island is in the
Gulf of Tonkin.
On the island of Guam, August finished with more than 37 inches of
rain, or nearly three-fold the monthly average. This was the second
month out of three to be excessively rainy here. June's 38-inch tally
was a record for that month. Additionally, the year-to-date rainfall
is almost 109 inches as of the end of Tuesday. This is more than 60
inches above average for the first eight months of the year and even
23 inches over the annual mean.
Tuesday, a heavy thunderstorm unloaded about 1.3 inches of rain
upon Ghardaia, northern Algeria. The average rainfall here during
August is a mere 0.1 of an inch and for the whole year it is only 2.7
inches, so this cloudburst was highly unusual.
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