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Date: Tue Sep 21 2004 - 19:40:01 EDT
September 21, 2004 5:44 p.m.
Tropical Storm Meari has been named; it is over the eastern
Philippine Sea. Late Tuesday afternoon, EDT, Meari is about 350 miles
west-northwest of Guam. Tracking towards the west-northwest at 8 mph,
the storm has highest sustained winds of 65 mph. Meari is forecast to
build quickly as it heads mostly towards the northwest. Potential is
good for this to become a typhoon over open seas.
Rains linked to a tropical depression that later grew into
Tropical Storm Meari were quite heavy on Guam. Rainfall was almost 5.8
inches from Sunday through Tuesday, local time. This drenching lifted
the year-to-date rainfall tally to 117 inches, a mark that is more
than 60 inches above average.
Monday through Tuesday morning, winds at Twillingate,
Newfoundland, Canada, blew a steady 50 to 60 mph with gusts of 70 to
85 mph. Twillingate is off northeastern Newfoundland. High winds from
this storm swept most of Newfoundland along with Cape Breton Island,
Nova Scotia.
Another storm swept over the Canadian Arctic Monday and Tuesday.
The storm poured two inches of cold and thundery rain over
Kangiqsliniq (Rankin Inlet), Nunavut. Far to the north, the storm
brought snow, blowing snow and 50-mph winds to Iglulik and Talurqjuak,
also in Nunavut. Gusts of 60 to 65 mph were clocked at Salluit,
northernmost Quebec, early Tuesday.
Tuesday saw a role-reversal in temperatures in parts of far
northwestern Mexico. The seaside city of Tijuana, which is normally
moderated by breezes off the Pacific Ocean, reached 90 degrees by
midday whereas the average high at this time of the year is in the
upper 70s. About 85 miles inland and surrounded by desert, the city of
Mexicali only mustered 86 degrees by mid-afternoon versus an average
high of 98.
In northern India, heavy showers and thunderstorms unloaded about
5.6 inches of rain on Lucknow from late Monday to Tuesday night, local
time. These downpours were a sizeable portion of September's 7.2-inch
mean rainfall.
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