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Date: Fri Nov 19 2004 - 19:40:01 EST
November 19, 2004 5:44 p.m.
Typhoon Muifa is crossing the northern Philippines. Late Friday
afternoon, EST, the storm was over southern Luzon about 30 miles
northeast of the island of Marinduque, or 105 miles southeast of
Manila, Luzon. Packing highest sustained winds of 80 mph, Muifa was
making for the west-southwest at 11-12 mph. Having loitered east of
Luzon for a few days, Muifa now seems committed to a westerly or
southwesterly track that will be over the Philippine Archipelago
Friday night, then over the South China Sea during the weekend.
Netherlands Antilles have been washed with heavy rains this
week. Hato, Curacao, picked up about nine inches of rain as of
late Thursday. Kralendijk, Bonaire, gathered in about 10 inches since
Tuesday. Respective average yearly rainfall for the two sites is 23
and 21 inches; for the month it is between three and four inches.
Another Lesser Antille, Dominica, played host to torrential
downpours Wednesday and Thursday. Rainfall at the Melville Hall
airport, eastern Dominica, was about 13.6 inches, 11 of which fell
Thursday night.
A strong, wintry storm swept over the heart of Europe Thursday and
Friday. Friday saw high winds and bursts of heavy snow. Snow fell
heavily for awhile over eastern Germany and Poland leaving a few, if
not several, quick inches. Farther south, high winds stemming from
fast-moving squalls were the hazard. Winds gusted to 75-80 mph in
eastern Austria at Voslau and 50-55 mph at Vienna. In nearby Slovakia,
Bratislava clocked gusts of 60-65 mph. Gusts of 50 to 60 mph swept
over Czech and Hungary, too. Even the United Kingdom shivered with
enough snow early Friday to whiten ground from Scotland to eastern
England.
Late Thursday to late Friday, local time, soaking rains pelted the
western Azores, an Atlantic group of islands administered by Portugal.
On the island of Flores, rainfall was about 5.4 inches within slightly
more than 24 hours. November's mean rainfall here is 5-6 inches, so
these downpours were roughly equal to the monthly average.
Friday was unusually warm along some coastal stretches of eastern
South Island, New Zealand. For example, winds blowing seaward from the
Southern Alps warmed the town of Timaru to 83 degrees whereas the
average daily high in November is in the middle 60s. Thursday's high
was 62.
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