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Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 10:40:01 EDT
August 1, 2003 9:53 a.m.
Thursday, an alert was hoisted for the potential of tropical
cyclone formation over the western Philippine Sea. The disturbance in
question was about 350 miles to the east of Luzon Island, Philippines,
as of Thursday morning, EDT; it was moving north-northwestward at
better than 20 mph.
Northwestern Russia basked in abnormally warm, even hot, weather
on Thursday. Near the White Sea, Segezha spiked to 89 degrees while
Arkhangel'sk, Ust' Pinega and Onega each registered a high of 88
degrees. Beyond the Arctic Circle, there were highs in the middle 80s
such as at Murmansk. Each of these readings were 20-25 degrees above
average highs.
Scattered strong to severe thunderstorms shook Italy on Thursday
as low pressure moved southeastward over the country. A strong
thunderstorm hit Pisa near midday unleashing wind gusts as high as 50
mph and 0.9 of an inch of rain; this rainfall was near the July mean.
At Pescara, rainfall was 1.3 inches within six hours; the average
monthly rainfall here is 1.6 inches.
Thursday, Lishui, in southeastern China, set a high temperature of
110 degrees. Thus, of July's 31 days, 28 had 100-degree heat, and the
days that topped out short of 100 reached 99 degrees. The mean high
for the month was 103 degrees, or 8 degrees above the climatological
mean for July. Meantime, August began hot as July ended: Friday, the
temperature neared 110 degrees by mid afternoon.
Most of China's populous heartland, from the tropical south to the
middle North China Plain, has sweltered in oppressive, even
life-threatening, heat this week. Each day, mid-afternoon apparent
temperatures have been 115 to 130 degrees over an area home to
hundreds of millions of souls. Nighttimes have "cooled" to a muggy 80
to 85 degrees in many instances. Friday, the apparent temperature
topped out near 125 degrees at Shanghai, thanks to the sultry
100-degree heat.
As of Thursday afternoon, four-straight days saw 100-degree heat
somewhere in southern British Columbia, Canada. At Pemberton, all
four days of the week reached or topped 100 degrees. Two hot spots
for the day were Kamloops, where spiked to 104 degrees, and Osoyoos,
where a high of 103 degrees was read.
At the Syowa station, East Antarctica, a severe blizzard had been
raging for about 24 hours as of Friday afternoon, local time. The
storm featured sustained winds of 55 to 85 mph, unending whiteouts in
snow and blowing snow, and temperatures in the teens.
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