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Date: Tue Mar 09 2004 - 19:40:01 EST
March 9, 2004 6:34 p.m.
Late Tuesday afternoon, EST, the Cyclone Gafilo is back out to sea
following a destructive crossing of Madagascar, but it seems likely to
land again in that nation's southwest. Gafilo is centered about 45
miles north of Morombe, Madagascar. Highest sustained winds about
Gafilo are down to 70 mph; it's moving towards the southeast at 11-12
mph. Gafilo is forecast to head towards the southeast and to move back
over land in the southwest of Madagascar within 3-6 hours.
The island of Juan da Nova in the Mozambique Channel was lashed by
gales and washed by torrential rain amounting to 12.6 inches Monday
into Tuesday as a result of Tropical Cyclone Gafilo.
Tropical Cyclone Nicky is a growing storm over the eastern South
Indian Ocean. As of late Tuesday morning, EST, Nicky holds highest
sustained winds of 55-60 mph about a center which is about 410 miles
west-southwest of Australia's remote Cocos Islands. While further
strengthening is foreseen, only open seas are in this storm's forecast
path.
Soaking showers swamped the island nation of Singapore early this
week. Rainfall was about 4.8 inches within a 24-hour span from Monday
into Tuesday, local time.
Sydney, Australia, soared to 104 degrees on Tuesday, far
surpassing the 76-degree average high for the date.
Monday night and Tuesday, high winds swept over much of Mongolia
and northwestern China. These winds clocked in some areas at more
than 60 steady mph kicked up blinding dust storms over the Gobi
Desert.
Tuesday, Isachsen, Canada, on Ellef Ringnes Island, entered a
third-straight day of unbroken minus-40 cold. Temperatures through
the stretch were 42 to 49 degrees below zero. At Eureka, Ellesmere
Island, also in Nunavut Territory, the range in temperature over 36
hours was from 41 to 52 degrees as of Tuesday morning.
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