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Date: Thu Jun 05 2003 - 10:10:01 EDT
June 5, 2003 9:47 a.m.
Thursday, temperatures dipped -- slightly -- over heat-weary
India, although hardest-hit states such as Andhra Pradesh were still
hotter than average by 10 degrees or more. But in Pakistan, the heat
wave worsened. Two hot spots, Sibi and Jacobabad, wrestled for top
honors and ended the day seemingly tied -- with highs of 127 degrees.
But, considering tenths of a degree, Sibi's 126.7 topped Jacobabad's
126.5 degrees. Sharing the dubious honor of reaching 120 degrees
were Pad Idan (122) and Nawabshah (121). Meantime, this blazing heat
wave burned its way towards the west. Southeastern Iran was 116 to 118
degrees hot at Iranshahr, and the sparsely-settled southwest of
Afghanistan may have hosted 115-degree highs.
Thursday began with a severe blizzard clenching the Antarctica
Peninsula and the nearby South Shetland Island of West Antarctica.
Observations from this area, which has a tight cluster of research
bases, showed whiteouts, 70-mph sustained winds and 10-degree
temperatures.
Thursday, an un-named tropical cyclone was over the South Pacific
Ocean northeast of the New Hebrides Islands (Vanuatu). Before
daybreak, EDT, cyclone owned highest sustained winds of more the 50
mph. It was located about 275 miles north-northeast of Espiritu Santo
Island, Vanuatu, headed towards the south-southwest nearly 7 mph. The
storm was forecast to head mostly towards the southeast while
strengthening. By late Friday, local time, the cyclone could threaten
storm- and hurricane-strength winds along with torrential rains for
northern Vanuatu.
As of Thursday, a tropical depression was over the Solomon Sea
west of the island of Bouganville, Papua New Guinea. An alert was
raised for the possibility of a tropical cyclone in the area.
Abnormally warm, even hot, weather built over Europe from the
midcontinent to parts of southern Scandinavia Wednesday. In Austria,
Innsbruck soared to 92 degrees versus an average high of 72. Many
other parts of the country reached the middle and upper 80s. In fact,
top readings in the 80s were common throughout central Europe putting
many areas 10-20 degrees above "normal". In Germany, 90-degree heat
was registered at Berlin, Leipzig, Karlsruhe and Bamberg. Putting this
weather into perspective, the average high in Berlin in early June is
69 degrees. Highs in the middle 80s were set as far north as southern
Sweden with Torup topping the list with an 86-degree mark.
Friday, the news from northern Europe was much the same: unusual
heat. It was, however, shifted somewhat eastwards. Early-afternoon
temperatures topped 90 degrees in Poland at Poznan and Torun. In
Czech, Ceske Budejovice showed 91 degrees, and Ostrava, 90. Also
touching 90 was Salzburg, Austria. These readings were 15 to 20
degrees above climatological means.
Hanoi, Vietnam, had rainfall of 3.4 inches Thursday.
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