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Date: Sat Mar 19 2005 - 19:40:02 EST
March 19, 2005 8:44 a.m.
Friday, EST, the first reading of -80 degrees since the 26th of
September was observed at the Amundsen-Scott station, South Pole,
Antarctica. The daily high was 74 degrees below zero. The average
mean temperature for the date is 65 degrees below zero.
Two-day rainfall at Casiguran, northeastern Luzon, Philippines,
was 8.1 inches as of Saturday afternoon, local time.
Saturday, winds of 25-35 mph kicked up loose dust over the Sahara
of southeastern Algeria, southern Tunisia and western Libya. So it was
at I-n-Amenas, Algeria, where visibility dipped below one mile at
times. But, given what happened here Thursday and Friday, this might
have seemed like beach weather. Thursday, sustained winds above 55 mph
raised dust clouds so thick that visibility was measured at as little
as 10 yards, and it was at most a few hundred yards for much of
Thursday and Friday.
Rain has fallen persistently and at times heavily over northern
Pakistan this week. Dir, high on the southern slopes in the far
north, measured 6.1 inches of rain within three days ending Saturday.
This accounted for at least the average rainfall for all of March.
Many residents of western Europe got another taste of spring on
Friday. Highs in the 70s were set from much of Iberia to central
France and locally in southern Germany, Switzerland, Austria and
northern Italy. With respect to normal, it was warmest from northern
Italy to southern Germany. Northerly Italy had top readings of 78
degrees in Milano, 75 at Piacenza and 73 in Brescia. Locarno,
Switzerland, rose to 74 degrees while Zurich peaked at 71. In Austria,
74 degrees was attained at both Klagenfurt and Graz. Highs in the
lower 70s were set at Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart and Konstanz,
all of which are in southern Germany. Average daily highs in March
vary from the upper 40s to the middle 50s in all of the aforementioned
sites.
Friday's morning low of -34 degrees was fully 35 degrees below
average at Vorkuta, Russia. Vorkuta is in this vast nation's northwest
near, and just to the west, of the northernmost Ural Mountains.
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