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Date: Fri Mar 18 2005 - 19:40:02 EST
March 18, 2005 4:15 p.m.
A small, weak tropical depression over the South China Sea is all
that is left of the former typhoon, Roke, which cut across the
Philippines archipelago from east to west Thursday.
As of Friday, the coldest day since late last September unfolded
at the South Pole. The Amundsen-Scott station, high atop the ice cap
of Antarctica, had an average daily temperature of 74 degrees below
zero including a low of 77 below. The climatological average
temperature for the date is 65 degrees below zero. Much the same, the
Vostok station had its coldest day since October upon dipping to 82
degrees below zero.
Easterly gales rushing from the Alboran Sea to the Atlantic Ocean
lashed northernmost Morocco Thursday into Friday. At Tanger, the
worst of the wind having gusts to at least 55 mph happened Thursday,
but winds reached 45 to 50 mph Friday. The nearby Strait of
Gibraltar make for an easy pathway through which atmospheric pressure
differences between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean may
attempt to equalize through the flow of the wind.
A heavy thunderstorm Thursday morning unleashed 3.4 inches of rain
at San Joaquin, Bolivia. This dousing, which lasted just a few hours,
was equal to about 40% of March's mean rainfall.
Many residents of western Europe got another taste of spring on
Friday. Highs in the 70s were set from much of Iberia to central
France and locally in southern Germany, Switzerland, Austria and
northern Italy. With respect to normal, it was warmest from northern
Italy to southern Germany. Northerly Italy had top readings of 78
degrees in Milano, 75 at Piacenza and 73 in Brescia. Locarno,
Switzerland, rose to 74 degrees while Zurich peaked at 71. In Austria,
74 degrees was attained at both Klagenfurt and Graz. Highs in the
lower 70s were set at Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart and Konstanz,
all of which are in southern Germany. Average daily highs in March
vary from the upper 40s to the middle 50s in all of the aforementioned
sites.
Friday's morning low of -34 degrees was fully 35 degrees below
average at Vorkuta, Russia. Vorkuta is in this vast nation's northwest
near, and just to the west, of the northernmost Ural Mountains.
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