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Date: Tue Dec 30 2003 - 19:40:01 EST
December 30, 2003 11:23 a.m.
Scorching heat was felt all the way into Tasmania Tuesday. Hobart
Airport registered 97 degrees for an afternoon high, almost 30 degrees
higher than the average. Shannon was 95 and Wynyard West was 94
degrees. Meanwhile, on mainland Australia, Melbourne hit 105 degrees
and Essendon was 101 degrees. Swan Hill was the region's hottest
location where the mercury soared to 107 degrees.
With very light flow across portions of southeastern Europe, some
areas have been socked in with low clouds and fog for more than 72
hours. From Saturday through Tuesday, in Bucharest, Romania, the fog
limited the visibility to just a few hundred feet.
Another douse of tropical rains pelted Jakarta, Indonesia,
Tuesday. Surrounding airports measured 5-8 inches of rainfall in just
24 hours. Two-day rain at Jakarta Observatory was 8.4 inches.
Tropical Cyclone Darius was over the western South Indian
Ocean early Tuesday morning, EST. The storm was centered about 570
miles to the north-northeast of Mauritius. In the ast 24 hours,
Darius has strengthened with top sustained winds of 45 mph. The
cyclone was moving to the southwest at about 15 mph. Darius is
forecast to strengthen further over the next 24-48 hours as it
continues to move toward the southwest.
Early this week, a blanket of snow 5 inches deep covered Torino
in northern Italy. The storm struck much harder along the southern
Alps straddling the Italy-Switzerland border. In southernmost
Switzerland, Locarno measured 5.2 inches of precipitation, including
14 inches of snow, most of which fell Sunday into Sunday night, local
time. New snowfall since Sunday in Sonnblick was more than a foot.
Heavy rains off the Caspian Sea Sunday into Monday doused
northern Iran. At Ramsar, two-day rainfall was nearly 6.0 inches.
Far to the south, heavy rain and snow hit the Zagros Mountains. At
Yasuj, the two-day soaking which featured a burst of wet snow made
for 3.7 inches of water equivalent.
Downpours brought 6.1 inches of rain in less than 6 hours to
Yurimaguas, Peru Monday.
Heavy tropical rains of late have washed the South Pacific island
of Futuna. Rainfall within 72 hours was more than 14 inches at Leava
Sigave.
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