[STORMREPORTS] AccuWeather World Weather Highlights Wednesday, Feb 09
February 9, 2005 5:58 p.m.
The island of Pantelleria, in the gap between Sicilia and
Off-shore winds roared over much of East Greenland again
A remarkable winter storm Wednesday rolled on for a
Unusually heavy wintertime rains soaked parts of northern
Wednesday morning, much of the Balkan Peninsula again shivered in
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From: admin-auto{at}weathermatrix.net
Date: Wed Feb 09 2005 - 19:40:01 EST
Tunisia, was caught up in gales and slashing rains Tuesday night and
Wednesday. Sustained winds rose at times above 55 mph and highest
gusts were 82 mph. The storm dropped 3.0 inches of rain. The same
storm also belted shores of Tunisia with high winds and driving
rains. Earlier, its winds kicked up dust storms in northwestern Libya
and southern Tunisia; visibility Tuesday dipped at times to one-half
mile with 55-mph gusts at Tarabulus (Tripoli), Libya.
Wednesday, making this a three-day storm. Automated weather equipment
at wind-prone Ikermit showed sustained winds above 90 mph. Farther
north, off-shore gales followed a fresh snowfall at Angmagssalik and
a ground blizzard was the result.
third-straight day over northern Iran. Fed by moisture off the
Caspian Sea, the storm poured cold, soaking rain right along the
shore (which is below sea level), and heavy wet snow somewhat inland.
At Rasht, somewhat inland, three-day water equivalent was between five
and six inches culminating Wednesday in a snow depth of two feet. Rain
and wet snow amounted to 5.6 inches -- but with limited snow
accumulation -- at Bandar-e Anzali, which is hard on the water.
Slopes of the nearby Alborz Mountains were smothered in fresh snow by
this lengthy storm. A related storm, meantime, has dumped heavy snow
over the Zagros Mountains of western Iran and northeastern Iraq.
Undoubtedly, snowfall here has been measured by the foot since Sunday.
Venezuela Monday to Wednesday. At the Simon Bolivar International
airport serving Caracas, the national capital, rainfall was at least
4.4 inches as of the wee hours on Wednesday morning, local time.
Spotty observations taken before and after this time indicate the
actual rainfall was likely higher. February's average rainfall here is
just 0.4 of an inch, so these downpours unloaded more than 10 times
the monthly mean.
a highly abnormal cold wave. One particularly frigid spot, Sjenica,
Serbia, dropped to -21 degrees for a second straight day whereas
February's mean daily low is 23. In Macedonia, Bitola registered lows
of -13 and -14 degrees Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. Rosiori de
Vede, southern Romania, fell to -15 degrees Tuesday and -16 Wednesday
with these marks more than 40 degrees below average.
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