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Date: Sat Jan 15 2005 - 19:40:02 EST
January 15, 2005 3:43 p.m.
Tropical Storm Kulap is over the western North Pacific Ocean
near the middle Caroline Islands. Late Saturday morning, EST, the
storm is centered 325 miles southeast of Agana, Guam. The storm is
drifting towards the north at 10 mph with highest sustained winds of
about 50 mph. Kulap is forecast to track east the Mariana Islands
along a path to the north and the northeast over the next two to
three days.
Rainfall at Chuuk, Micronesia, was 7.9 inches within 48 hours as
of early Saturday morning, local time. The downpours stemmed from a
tropical depression which grew into the aforementioned tropical storm.
A tropical cyclone is spinning over the North Indian Ocean. Late
Saturday morning, EST, the cyclone is centered 475 miles east-southeast
of Colombo, Sri Lanka, where it holds highest sustained winds near 40
mph. The cyclone is forecast to drift sluggishly towards the northwest
over open seas with little change in strength during the next 2-3
days.
Rainfall late Friday through Saturday, local time, topped six
inches at Kuching, Sarawak State, Malaysia. These downpours boosted
rainfall for the month thus far to nearly 30 inches, which is more
than the strikingly high average of 27 inches.
Saturday was abnormally hot in Christchurch, New Zealand, with a
high of 92 degrees. This is about 20 degrees above average.
Last call from the latest bout of spring-like warm was made
Friday to Atlantic Canada, where temperatures soared to the 50s and
even 60s. On Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, 63 degrees was reached
at Cheticamp and Ingonish Beach. The Newfoundland capital, Saint
John`s, saw 55 degrees, or 24 degrees above average.
January is off to a spring-like start in Moscow, Russia, where,
as of Friday, the mean temperature for the first 13 days was 21.4
degrees above average. On no day did the temperature hold below
freezing. And this follows a December that was warmer than average by
nearly seven degrees.
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