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Date: Fri Nov 12 2004 - 19:40:01 EST
November 12, 2004 5:18 p.m.
Tropical Cyclone Arola has waned steadily since midweek. Late
Friday afternoon, EST, Arola is over the Indian Ocean 385 miles south
of Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory. Highest sustained
winds are near 40 mph as the storm makes way towards the west at 6
mph. Arola is forecast to dissipate over open waters within another
two to three days.
Friday found stormy gales and slashing rains spread over the
Norwegian, North and Baltic Seas along with lands from Scotland to
Scandinavia. Winds gusted 50 to 60 mph along and near water; speeds
to 65 mph were clocked in the North Sea oil field of Ekofisk.
Near Bridgetown, Barbados, rainfall late Thursday into Friday was
5.0 inches. Earlier in the week, rainfall at the Prinses Juliana
airport on Sint Maarten was 6.0 inches.
Winds early Friday gusted 70 mph at the Godthab seaplane base,
Greenland.
Muruoto Misaki, southern Japan, collected 5.5 inches of rain
within 12 hours late Thursday into Friday.
High winds that set in at midweek raged through Thursday night
over icebound Ellsworth Land, West Antarctica. Automated weather
equipment at the Ski-Hi station showed sustained winds of at
least 97 mph Wednesday night with winds holding above hurricane
strength into Thursday night. Temperatures rose from single digits
into the mid teens.
Thursday night, locally heavy thunderstorms drenched the African
nation of Benin. In Parakou, the downpours unleashed by these
thunderstorms were unusually heavy for November. Rainfall was about
2.1 inches within only six hours whereas the average rainfall for the
entire month is 0.4 of an inch.
Parts of southern Italy were soaked Thursday to Friday. In Marina
di Ginosa, heavy showers and thunderstorms dropped about 3.7 inches of
rain within 36 hours as of late Friday, local time. Average rainfall
during November here is 1.9 inches, so these downpours were almost
twice the monthly mean.
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