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Date: Sat Sep 18 2004 - 19:40:02 EDT
September 18, 2004 2:48 p.m.
Javier has weakened quickly to a tropical storm west of southern
Baja California, Mexico. Saturday morning, EDT, Javier is 220 miles
west of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Having highest
sustained winds of little more than 55 mph, Javier is tracking
towards the northwest at 7 or 8 mph. Javier is forecast to make
landfall over western Baja California Saturday night; its leftovers
may spread over northwestern Mexico and into Arizona.
The next tropical cyclone for the western North Pacific basin may
be taking shape over the southern South China Sea. This tropical wave
is, as of Friday afternoon, EDT, north of the disputed Spratly Islands.
Friday into Saturday, snow blanketed Fort Saint John, BC, for a
second time this month. Snow fell steadily most of Friday and right
into Saturday. At midday, Saturday, snow lay 8 inches deep, although
15 inches of snow had fallen. In Chetwynd, BC, a snow depth of 12
inches was reported, as were breaking tree limbs.
Before daybreak, Saturday, torrential thundershowers doused
Vancouver, BC. Rainfall was 3.3 inches within six hours at the
international airport. The average monthly rainfall here is only 2.6
inches.
Heavy, windswept snows Friday into Saturday further deepened snow
pack over the Trinity Peninsula of West Antarctica. Chile's research
station, named for General Bernardo O`Higgins, observed 45 to 50
inches of new snow within about 24 hours. Sustained winds rose to
nearly 60 mph; unrecorded gusts likely reached hurricane strength, or
above 74 mph. Snow depth, having been 90 inches at the storm began,
was 137 inches, or more than 11 feet, Saturday morning. The new snow
alone held water equivalent to about 4.5 inches. Another station in
the area, this one manned by Argentina, clocked steady winds of
nearly 90 mph early Saturday morning.
A Mediterranean storm unleashed unusually heavy rain for September
in parts of Italy and Tunisia Thursday to Friday. At Ponza, Italy, an
island about 70 miles south of Rome, rainfall was 2.5 inches in only
six hours early Friday whereas September's mean rainfall here is 2.3
inches. Southward, the island of Pantelleria, situated midway between
Sicily and Tunisia, was pelted by 2.6 inches of rain during a 30-hour
period to late Friday. These downpours were twice the monthly average
rainfall. In nearby far northeastern Tunisia, rainfalls were 2.4 and
2.3 inches, respectively, at Nabeul and Qelibia during the same 30
hours.
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