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Date: Mon Feb 21 2005 - 19:40:02 EST
February 21, 2005 5:26 p.m.
Sunday was the hottest day of an ongoing heat wave gripping the
mid continent of South America. In northernmost Argentina, respective
highs of 106, 108 and 110 degrees were set beginning Friday at Las
Lomitas. Northwestern Paraguay has been about as hot in such towns as
Mariscal Estigarribia and Prats-Gil which, like Las Lomitas, are on
the plains of the Gran Chaco. The Paraguay capital, Asuncion, had its
third-straight day of 100-degree heat Sunday: 104 degrees was
reached.
Winter is well in evidence over wide stretches of Europe. Take
northern Italy, where snow has been locally heavy since Sunday. Along
the southern edges of the Lombardy Plain, Piacenza picked up about a
foot of heavy, wet snow. Snow also fell heavily over Bologna. Strong,
cold winds blowing down slope to the northernmost Adriatic Sea swept
the area of Trieste in far-northeastern Italy and neighboring
Slovenia. Elsewhere, as of Monday morning, snow whitened parts of
Belgium, France and northern Spain, and even some of eastern England
saw light falls of snow early Monday.
Antarctic cold is strengthening by the day over the continent`s
lofty ice cap. At the Vostok station of Russia, the low temperature
Monday was 70 degrees below zero; this was the first instance of -70
since early November. What is more, this cold, inconceivable though
it may be, was not unusual for the date, and it followed a relatively
warm late spring and early summer. Along much the same lines, the
Amundsen-Scott station, South Pole, has had its first bout of -50
degrees since early November beginning late last week.
Monday dawned with bitter cold in much of central Quebec, Canada.
At Lac Benoit, for example, the early morning low was -48 degrees.
Interestingly, however, the temperature climbed 50 degrees within a
six-hour span to reach +3 by early afternoon. Near Manouane, -46
degrees was registered early Monday, and the -43 degrees registered at
Bonnard was a full 30 degrees below average.
Portions of eastern Greenland were much milder than usual on
Monday. In Scoresbysund, the morning low of 25 degrees was about 25
degrees above average, and the 37-degree afternoon high was close to
30 degrees above February's mean daily maximum.
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