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Date: Sat Jun 07 2003 - 10:10:01 EDT
June 7, 2003 8:59 a.m.
Downpours deluged portions southeastern China and Taiwan Friday
night and Saturday. In less than 24 hours, 8.55 inches of rain fell
at Tainan, Taiwan. On Fujian Province in southeastern China, 3.84
inches of rain fell on Zhangping. Meanwhile, rainfall was 3.58 inches
in just 12 hours on Ishigaki Jima, a small southern island of the
Ryukyu Island chain.
Early Saturday, EDT, Tropical Cyclone Gina was near 15.7 south,
163.1 east, or about 500 miles to the north-northwest of Noumea, New
Caledonia and was moving to the west-southwest at about 11 mph. In the
last 24 hours, Gina intensified, with sustained winds of 95 mph. The
cyclone cut a path across northern Vanuatu, crossing the Torres and
Banks islands and unleashing very strong winds and torrential rain.
Rainfall since Friday at Luganville on Espiritu Santo was nearly 6
inches. The well-developed cyclone is expected to strengthen further
over open water, reaching an intensity equivalent to a Category 3
hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale over the next 24 hours, but is
expected to weaken thereafter. It will initially maintain a
west-southwesterly course, but will recurve to southeast early next
week. This will bring Gina very close to the southern Vanuatu Islands,
the Loyalty Islands and perhaps New Caledonia.
Some heavy rain fell along northern Iran's Caspian Sea shores
early Thursday to Friday morning, local time. At Ramsar, rainfall was
3.6 inches within 30-36 hours. Meanwhile, strong winds whipped up
dirt, dust and sand over some eastern parts of the country. Near the
border with Afghanistan, sustained winds topped 55 mph Friday evening
at Zabol. Blowing dust reduced the visibility to just 1/16 of a mile.
Unusually hot weather surged northward into western Canada
Friday. Temperatures soared well into the 90s west of the Rockies in
British Columbia. Comox, on Vancouver Island, hit 90 degrees.
Victoria International Airport rose to 92. Pemberton and West
Vancouver both reached 94 degrees. And, Squamish Airport skyrocketed
to 95 degrees.
Friday, rainfall was just over 3 inches at Iquitos, Peru.
Blistering heat continued to bake Pakistan Saturday. Nawabshah
and Pad Idan both hit 122 degrees. And, Rohri reached 120 degrees.
The recent heat across north-central Europe has come at the end of
a long warm and dry spell. Warsaw, Poland has not had any rain since
May 23rd. Since then, temperatures have been warmer than normal every
day and some days nearly 20 degrees above normal. Thunderstorms
overnight Thursday night signaled a turn to somewhat cooler weather
across Poland, though rainfall was spotty.
Much of southern and eastern Europe has been substantially
warmer and drier than normal this spring. Over the past 5 weeks in Uman
in the central Ukraine, temperatures have averaged nearly 8 degrees
above normal. Dnepropetrovsk, also in the Ukraine, has averaged 6
degrees warmer than normal and rainfall has been only 8 percent of
normal. Belgrade, Yugoslavia, for the same period, has seen only 25
percent of normal precipitation and temperatures more than 7 degrees
above normal.
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