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Date: Thu Apr 21 2005 - 19:40:03 EDT
World Weather Summary
Updated: April 21, 2005 11:36 a.m.
A tropical depression is plying the western North Pacific Ocean near the western Caroline Islands. Late Thursday morning, EDT, the depression held top sustained winds of 30 mph about a center which was 130 miles southeast of Yap Island, Federated States of Micronesia; it was moving westward at 8 mph. The depression was forecast to move on a west-northwestward heading and to strengthen somewhat through early Sunday morning; its center should pass near Yap Thursday evening.
Recent days have been unusually mild in parts of Iceland. In the north, for example, Akureyri set back-to-back highs of 58 degrees Tuesday and Wednesday. By early Thursday afternoon, the temperature again topped 50 degrees. For perspective, the average daily high during April here is 39 degrees; even during the long days of midsummer when the sun is above the horizon for about 20 hours, the average daily high is 57.
Wednesday was abnormally warm for the time of the year in portions of Nova Scotia, Canada. Western Head, for example, was more than 30 degrees above average in reaching 79 degrees. Kejimkujik was nearly as warm; the high was 75 degrees. In Halifax, a high of 73 degrees was registered whereas the average high for the date was 48. The passage of a cold front Wednesday night brought the warm spell to a sudden end, and by Thursday morning snow was falling on Halifax.
Though calendars show it to be spring in the northern hemisphere, recent mornings have been bitterly cold in Markovo, a town in extreme northeastern Russia. Early Thursday morning, local time, the temperature dipped to -29 degrees. This mark was preceded by lows of -25 and -28 degrees, respectively, on Tuesday and Wednesday. The mean daily low during these days is about 3 degrees above zero. Even during the depths of winter here, the average daily low is "only" -20 degrees.
A snowstorm which began during last weekend continued into Thursday over the mountains of southern Germany. At Zugspitze, the country's highest point, liquid equivalent of the snow was 3.8 inches within 102 hours as of early Thursday afternoon, local time; snow depth stood at 140 inches, or almost twelve feet!
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