>From AccuWeather.com:
"Tuesday, powerful Tropical Cyclone Dina skirted Mauritius and Reunion
to the north and west while continuing its trek over the southern Indian
Ocean. Dina passed close enough to the aforementioned islands to unleash
damaging winds and soaking rains. On the southeast side of Mauritius,
the main airport clocked peak wind gusts of 90-95 mph, and rainfall was
greater than 4.7 inches. Higher winds and heavier downpours likely
lashed Port Louis, on the storm-ward side of the island. Early
Wednesday, Eastern Time, the storm still had top winds near 135 mph, and
gusts near 160 mph."
http://www.accuweather.com/iwxpage/adc/popup/wx4/
Believe it or not, WeatherMatrix actually has a member on the island of
Mauritius:
http://www.weathermatrix.net/members/public.php3?f=Bim&l=Ramdenee
He says: "Indeed we had Cyclone Dina that visited us at 4 am
yesterday.It was at it's
closest 50km from the North of the island.
We had winds of up to 200km/hr and pressure of around 990mb.
Unfortunately our Electricity was cut off during the passage of Dina and
we
could not keep up with the tracking and pictures and had to rely on our
local met service."
He also sent along these excellent satellite photos of the storm:
http://www.weathermatrix.net/2002/0123/
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