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Date: Fri Mar 04 2005 - 19:40:02 EST
March 4, 2005 5:57 p.m.
Tropical Cyclone Percy is weakening over the open South Pacific
Ocean. Late Friday afternoon, EST, Percy is located about 410 miles
southeast of Rarotonga, Cook Islands. Highest sustained winds are down
to 50 mph as the storm makes its way towards the east-southeast at 20
mph. A path towards the east-southeast is foreseen for Percy over the
next two days; the storm will likely weaken further.
Southern Scandinavia dawned bitterly cold again Friday. In
Denmark, Copenhagen was 8 degrees, or 21 degrees below the daily
average low. Odense dipped to 1 degree. In southern Sweden, the low
at Malilla was 13 degrees below zero, or about 35 degrees below
average. Interestingly, within six hours of setting the low, the
temperature had risen to 31 degrees for a climb of 44 degrees.
Snow has lately whitened much of France where, early Friday, snow
lay 4 inches deep at the Orly airport of Paris.
In Fiji, Vunisea, island of Kandavu, has been inundated with
torrential rains much of the last three days. As of late Friday,
local time, rainfall was above 20 inches. Friday alone, rainfall was
10.5 inches.
More than two feet of new snow has fallen since Tuesday at
Petropavlovsk Kamchatskiy, Kamchatka, Russia. In the wake of this
latest storm, snow depth stood at 114 inches, or 9.5 feet.
Spring has come early to the Uzbekistan capital, Toshkent
(Tashkent). Friday was the warmest of three-straight days topping 70
degrees; 75 degrees was reached. The average high for these days is
48 to 49 degrees.
Much of Greenland was milder than usual on Friday. Parts of the
south and west were exceptionally mild for early March. In the far
south, 54 degrees was reached at Narsarsuaq whereas the average daily
high in March is 27. In the west, highs were 51 and 47 degrees,
respectively, at Kangerlussuaq (Sondrestromfjord) and Ilulissat
(Jakobshavn); both of these marks were 40-45 degrees above average.
In western South Africa, Vredendal soared to 109 degrees on
Friday. As March's mean daily high is 85 degrees here, this reading
was about 25 degrees above average. Thursday's high was 103 degrees.
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