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Date: Tue Nov 09 2004 - 19:40:02 EST
November 9, 2004 5:28 p.m.
Tropical Cyclone Arola continues to ply the waters of the South
Indian Ocean. Late Tuesday afternoon, EST, Arola is centered about 305
miles southeast of Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory, where
it holds highest sustained winds of 75 mph. The cyclone is heading
westward at 8 mph. A general path towards the west-southwest over open
seas is forecast to be cut by Arola during the next 48 hours. Some
weakening is also anticipated.
Torrential rains swamped portions of Costa Rica early this week.
Along the Caribbean coast, Puerto Limon was especially hit hard. Here,
rainfall reached 12.9 inches within 66 hours at midafternoon Tuesday.
November is normally rainy with a mean rainfall of 15.6 inches, but
these rains were excessive for their duration.
Tuesday, soaking showers and thunderstorms broke out over eastern
sections of near southern South America. These rains focused upon far
northern Uruguay, southernmost Brazil and nearby lands of northeastern
Argentina. In Argentina, 4.2 inches of rain poured down on Monte
Caseros within twelve hours. Artigas, Uruguay, was drenched by 3.0
inches of rain over the same span. In Santa Maria, Brazil, rainfall
was 2.7 inches.
Seventy-two-hour rainfall ended midday Tuesday, local time, was
9.6 inches at Estevan Point, Vancouver Island, British Columbia,
Canada.
Vostok Base, Antarctica, rose to 34 degrees below zero Tuesday.
This was the first time since late February that the mercury rose
above -40 Fahrenheit. It was only the second day since October 14
that was above normal. Since October 14, temperatures have been
5 degrees below average - quite cold for the middle of spring, even
for Vostok's standards.
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