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Date: Tue Dec 21 2004 - 19:40:02 EST
December 21, 2004 5:44 p.m.
Tropical Storm Noru is becoming extra tropical as it swings away
from from the Northern Mariana Islands. Early Tuesday morning,
EST, Noru holds highest sustained winds of 50 mph about a center
which is 900 miles northeast of Saipan, Mariana Islands, and nearly
as far to the northwest of Wake Island. Noru is sweeping towards the
east-northeast at 35 mph. Noru will become fully extra tropical over
open seas within another day or two.
As Noru swept near Japan's remote Minami Tori Shima Monday to
Tuesday, rainfall was 3.0 inches, primarily within 24 hours.
A cold snap has settled over the heart of Europe early this week.
Temperatures 5 to 15 degrees below average have been the rule from
Britain to the Alps. The state of Bavaria, Germany, was a cold spot
early Tuesday. Augsburg and Straubing reached 1 degree below zero
over light snow cover. Munchen (Munich) dipped to 1 degree.
A warming surge ultimately from the North Atlantic Ocean
penetrated the western Arctic of Russia early this week. Whilst this
warming boosted temperatures 30 and more degrees above average, it
also spurred high winds and whiteouts over the Siberian Tundra. Tiksi,
near the Lena Delta in the eastern Arctic, was beset by gales and
ground blizzards Monday and Tuesday. Temperatures in the minus-teens
together with steady 50-mph winds made it seem colder than 50 degrees
below zero.
Heavy rains that began last weekend over southwestern Turkey
wound down early Tuesday. This was none too soon for Finike, where
rainfall was nearly 18 inches within three to four days.
Monday into Monday night, gales whipped Bermuda. Winds gusted
often to between 45 and 55 mph.
Much of eastern Canada shivered in a harsh cold blast early this
week. Take Ottawa, Ontario, where the national capital had lows of 23
and 17 degrees below zero Monday and Tuesday, respectively. Nested
between these was a high of 13 below zero, or 33 degrees below the
daily average high. Were it not for a phenomenal cold wave in 1942,
Monday's low may well have been a record for the date. Not far to the
east, Montreal, QB, set lows of 10 to 15 degrees below zero each
morning. Far, far to the north in the vastness of Quebec, the site of
the La Grande-IV hydro dam registered respective lows of 48 and 47
degrees below zero.
Key Lake in far-northern Saskatchewan had another morning of -50
degrees Tuesday. It was 54 degrees below zero.
Saint Denis, Reunion, picked up 13.5 inches of rain Sunday
morning through Monday evening.
In Nausori, Fiji, the week has begun with at least 6.8 inches of
rain.
Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, has had 8.0 inches of rain since
Sunday.
Locally heavy rain hit the northern half of Bolivia from Monday
afternoon to early Tuesday. Rainfall within 24 hours as of Tuesday
morning was 3.9 inches at San Borja and 3.6 inches at Ascencion de
Guarayos.
Tuesday sweltered on Australia's North-West Cape Peninsula in far
western Western Australia. At Learmonth, the temperature reached 115
degrees with this mark being a full 20 degrees above December's mean
daily high.
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