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Date: Sat Aug 06 2005 - 19:40:01 EDT
World Weather Summary
Updated: August 6, 2005 7:43 a.m.
Typhoon Matsa plowed ashore in eastern China Friday night near
Wenling. Just north of landfall, Shipu, China has winds over 70 mph
for a time and sustained winds were over 40 mph for about 24 hours.
Linahi, China was deluged with 11.48 inches of rain in the past 48
hours. A large area of the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang has
been soaked with heavy rain and the rain is continuing Saturday
likely resulting in some serious flooding problems.
Lisbon, Portugal's capital city, was burned by unusually hot
weather Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Wednesday's high was 99
degrees and Thursday soared to 103 degrees. Friday afternoon,
the temperature reached 102 degrees. Typically moderated by breezes
from the Atlantic Ocean, Lisbon has an average daily high of 79
degrees during early August. Meanwhile, Coimba and Evora, Portugal
both peaked at 105 on Friday.
A slow-moving storm brought heavy rain to portions of western
Bulgaria from Thursday through Friday night. Rainfall totals were
4.87 inches in Lom, 4.60 inches in the nation's capital of Sofia and
a whopping 7.84 inches at Mount Mourgash. The heavy rain extended
across the border into southern Romania as well with Bucharest having
3.35 inches in the same time period.
Parts of middle South America have had a wintertime heat wave
recently. In Asuncion, Paraguay, for example, Friday was the seventh
consecutive day to reach the lower 90s. For perspective, the average
daily high in late July and early August is in the middle 70s. A cold
front moved through Friday night and the next few days will be much
cooler.
Heavy thunderstorms erupted over northern Pakistan Friday.
Islamabad was doused with 3.90 inches of rain in just a few hours
time and winds gusted briefly past 40 mph.
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