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Date: Fri Feb 11 2005 - 19:40:02 EST
February 11, 2005 5:39 p.m.
Renewed heavy rains and mountain snows struck South Asia Friday.
The storm focused upon the northeastern half of Pakistan, much of
Afghanistan and a bit of northwestern India. Unusually heavy
precipitation this week has contributed to deadly disasters such as a
dam burst along the Makran Coast of southwestern Pakistan, and snow
slides in mountains from Pakistan to Tajikistan.
Rainfall at Iquitos, Peru, was 11.7 inches within 54 hours as of
early Friday afternoon.
Another winter thaw is underway in western Canada. Thursday,
temperatures soared far above long-term seasonal average marks in
northeastern BC and throughout AB; they held there right into Friday.
Fort Saint John, BC, missed Thursday`s record high of 44 by two
degrees, then hovered about 35 degrees above the average low of 0
Thursday night. Friday afternoon, 45 degrees was reached, thereby
besting the record high for the date which was 44 set in 2004. Calgary
warmed above 40 degrees even before sunrise early Friday and reached
50 shortly after noon before cooling off somewhat.
Friday`s morning low of 62 degrees below zero at Oymyakon, Russia,
marked the first time -60 was reached here in more than two weeks.
Temperatures through the stretch have been more than 20 degrees above
average, yet always well below zero. Anomaly aside, this stretch of
Siberian Russia is truly the Pole of Cold to the Northern
Hemisphere.
An impressive cold wave persisted over much of the Balkan
Peninsula Friday. Night-times this week have been especially frigid
over the region owing to clear skies, light winds and, in many places,
a thick snow cover. In Serbia, Sjenica registered consecutive lows of
-17, -21, -21, -19 and -20 degrees Monday through Friday whereas
February's mean daily low is 23. Bitola, Macedonia, dipped 11 to 14
degrees below zero each of these five mornings.
Late Thursday and Thursday night, local time, cloudbursts broke
over greater Jakarta, Indonesia. At Jakarta Observatory, rainfall was
6.3 inches while the port of Tanjung Priok gathered in 4.3 inches. At
Halim Perdana Kusuma airport, the rainfall was a comparatively modest
2.1 inches.
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