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Date: Fri Sep 05 2003 - 10:40:00 EDT
September 5, 2003 8:58 a.m.
It's been unusually rainy recently in parts of Spain. Thundery
downpours soaked the city of Zaragoza, for example, on Thursday.
Within 12 hours, this northeastern city was doused by 1.4 inches of
rain. Adding in rainy spells which began Tuesday night gave a 48-hour
rainfall of 2.2 inches as of late Thursday. The average rainfall for
all of September here is about 1.2 inches. And on the Baleares,
islands in the Mediterranean Sea, days of late have seen torrential
cloudbursts befitting equatorial rain belts. At Palma de Mallorca, a
thundery burst of rain left 4.5 inches within less than one hour
early Friday.
A cold front triggered some heavy showers and thunderstorms over
portions of northwestern Turkey Thursday and Thursday night. Rainfall
within 12 hours was 1.0-1.5 inches in many sites. Along the Black Sea
coast, the town of Inebolu was soaked by 3.3 inches of rain, much of
which fell in only 6 hours.
Overnight downpours that began Friday evening at Agana, Guam,
hinted that a tropical depression was gathering nearby. Rainfall was
nearly 3 inches within a few hours, and the would-be depression was
centered within about 50 miles of the island.
Friday, Jimena nearly straddled the International Date Line as a
tropical depression. As early Friday morning, EDT, Jimena holds top
sustained winds of 35 mph, and it is heading towards the west at 18
mph. The center is about 1000 miles east-southeast of Wake Island.
Jimena is forecast to remain weak -- only a depression -- while
tracking towards the west-northwest for the next two to three days.
Tropical Storm Kevin grew out of a tropical depression over the
eastern North Pacific Ocean on Thursday only to be downgraded to a
depression early Friday. Early Friday morning, EDT, highest winds
about Kevin are down to 35 mph as the depression heads towards the
northwest at 8 mph. The core of Kevin is 400 miles west of Cabo San
Lucas, Mexico. Forecasts hinted that Kevin would have little future as
a named tropical cyclone, and eventual dissipation over remote,
relatively cool seas was called for.
Thursday, the automated weather station at Minna Bluff,
Antarctica, at the head of the Ross Ice Shelf clocked steady winds
between 80 and 90 mph. As this happened, temperatures rose slowly
through the minus-20s.
It's been a summer marked by heat waves in the western half of
Canada, and this week has seen yet another such wave. In British
Columbia, the inter-mountain valleys have set many a 90-degree high
and a few spots flirted with 100. At Lytton, consecutive highs set
Tuesday through Thursday were 94, 98, and 95 degrees, respectively,
which contrasted with the mean high in the mid 70s. But even
sheltered pockets of Vancouver Island sweltered: Port Alberni had
consecutive highs of 93, 93, and 89 degrees; again, about 20 degrees
above average. On the Great Plains, meantime, Saskatchewan saw
near-record heat on Thursday. The high of 94 degrees at Regina was
shy of the daily record high by 2 degrees.
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