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Date: Wed Oct 27 2004 - 19:40:02 EDT
October 27, 2004 5:22 p.m.
Wednesday, a moderate tropical cyclone is over the western
South Indian Ocean. Late Wednesday morning, EDT, the cyclone is
about 220 miles north of the northern tip of Madagascar. It is
drifting towards the west at 9 mph with highest sustained winds of
40 mph. The storm is forecast to head mostly towards the west for the
next one to two days; a few small islands lie near its likely path.
Chilling gales and slashing rains off the Southern Ocean swept
over southeastern Australia Wednesday. In the state of Victoria,
winds rose to at least 70 steady mph at Wilson's Promontory southeast
of Melbourne. Sustained winds of 60 mph raked Hicks Point, the
northwestern tip of Tasmania. High in the Australian Alps, it was cold
enough for snow, and snowfall may have been a foot or more above 6000
feet. Melbourne chilled to 50-degree winds of 30 to 40 mph and
rainfall of 1.0 to 1.5 inches. Meantime, Sydney, being well beyond of
the Southern chill, was hit with hot, dry blasts of wind as the
temperature spiked to 92 degrees. Winds gusted 50 to 55 mph.
Wednesday, gales were raging along the shores of western Europe
from Portugal and northwestern Spain to southern Ireland and
southwestern England.
Rainfall late Tuesday through Wednesday was 6.1 inches at
Catarman, eastern Philippines.
Tuesday and Wednesday were unusually hot along some coastal
stretches of the eastern Mediterranean Sea. In Israel, Haifa spiked to
96 degrees Tuesday and 95 degrees Wednesday whereas the average daily
high in late October is in the upper 70s. In Beirut, the Lebanese
capital, the 78-degree mean highs for the dates were far surpassed as
the temperature climbed to 93 degrees Tuesday and 90 degrees on
Wednesday.
Thundery downpours splashed parts of Fiji this midweek. On the
island of Rotuma, rainfall was 5.4 inches within 12 hours Wednesday.
It's been very rainy lately in portions of Sri Lanka. On the
island nation's eastern shores, for example, Batticaloa was hit by 8.8
inches of rain within 72 hours as of midday Wednesday, local time.
October's average rainfall here is about 6.7 inches, so these rains
have been unusually heavy.
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