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Date: Wed Jan 07 2004 - 19:40:00 EST
January 7, 2004 6:34 p.m.
Cyclone Heta is moving southeastwards over open seas after
delivering hammer blows upon Samoa, Niue and a few islands of Tonga.
Late Wednesday afternoon, EST, Heta is over the South Pacific Ocean
about 930 miles southeast of Niue, the last land touched by the storm.
Heta is moving southeastwards at 18 mph with highest sustained winds
down to 75 mph. Heta is no longer a threat to land, as its path will
be over open seas through the time of its dissipating as a named
tropical storm.
Arctic air pooled over the hinterland of western North America
has been rushing seaward via gaps in the Coast Ranges of British
Columbia. At one such site, Grey Inlet, near Prince Rupert, whole
gales were clocked Tuesday and Tuesday night as temperatures hovered
below 25 degrees. Some gusts topped 70 mph. At the same time, light
to calm winds were observed in Prince Rupert owing to the sheltering
afforded by the nearby mountains.
Bitter arctic cold early this week has settled over Canada west
of Hudson's Bay. In Nunavut, Baker Lake (also know by the Inuit name,
Qamani'tuaq), set back-to-back lows of 50 degrees below zero Tuesday
and Wednesday mornings. Wedged between these was Tuesday's high of 44
below zero. The mean daily range in temperature is between -4 degrees
and -22 degrees. At Churchill in northern Manitoba, Wednesday's
morning low of 44 below zero made it coldest of three-straight
-40-degree mornings. Gillam dipped 45 degrees below zero early
Wednesday.
Stormy weather has beset some of Chile's tiny southern islands
this week. The Evangelistas group of islands, for example, collected
4.5 inches of rain from Monday morning to Wednesday afternoon. Much
of this rain came Monday to Monday night. Wednesday saw fierce winds
reaching 50-70 mph sustained.
It's been an unsettled week in much of Turkey with widespread rain
and mountain snow, some of it heavy. The highland city of Bingol, for
example, recorded 19 inches of heavy, wet snow from Sunday night to
Wednesday evening, local time. As of Wednesday morning, the snow depth
stood at 15 inches. Liquid equivalent of the snow, which was mixed
with rain at times, was 3.9 inches. Temperatures during this spell
only varied between 30 and 36 degrees.
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