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Date: Thu Feb 17 2005 - 19:40:01 EST
February 17, 2005 5:07 p.m.
Tropical Cyclone Olaf remains a powerful South Pacific storm, but
it is weakening. Late Thursday afternoon, EST, Olaf still holds top
sustained winds of 140 mph. Centered 490 miles southeast of Pago Pago,
American Samoa, and 380 miles to the west-northwest of Rarotonga, Cook
Islands, the cyclone is moving southeastward at 14 mph. Olaf will head
south-southeastward and slowly weaken during the next 2-3 days; it
should pass safely to the west of Rarotonga within 12-18 hours.
Locally heavy rain doused New Zealand's South Island this midweek.
On the western coast, rainfall was 5.4 inches within about 36 hours
ended Thursday morning, local time, at Hokitika. This drenching was
equivalent to about 70% of February's mean rainfall here.
Fierce and frigid winds battered portions of far northeastern
Greenland beginning Tuesday night and continuing through late
Thursday. Sustained winds blew 45 mph or greater during this time and
reached nearly 80 mph at their highest. At the onset of these severe
gales, the temperature was 6 degrees, but mostly temperatures hovered
near -4 degrees.
In Ganzhou, China, over 5.5 inches of rain fell in the past 3
days in the city. And of this, more than 3.1 inches fell during the
day Wednesday and into early Thursday morning, EST.
The storm that has brought all the rain to Italy and snow to the
Alps has brought the cold weather even into the Italian Peninsula.
The high on Mount Cimone only climbed to 16 degrees Wednesday, well
below the normal of nearly 30 degrees and the low Thursday morning
dropped to 11 degrees, below the normal low of 22 degrees. This same
pattern is seen in Passo Resia which climbed to 20 degrees, well
below the normal of nearly 40 degrees. The normal low is also near 25
degrees, well above the actual low Thursday morning of 8 degrees.
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