Monday, 3 August 2015

Storms and Floods

Tropical Storms - Roundup of Tropical Storms:

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Hurricane Guillermo is located about 680 mi...1095 km ESE of Hilo Hawaii and about 890 mi...1430 km ESE of Honolulu Hawaii with maximum sustained winds...75 mph...120 km/h. Present movement...WNW or 300 degrees at 10 mph...17 km/h.

Typhoon 13w (Soudelor), located approximately 196 nm west-northwest of Saipan, is tracking west-northwestward at 13 knots.

Tropical Depression 14w (Fourteen), located approximately 216 nm north of Chichi Jima, Japan, is tracking west-northwestward at 06 knots.

Tropical Cyclone (tc) 01p (onO), located approximately 548 nm northwest of Suva, Fiji, is tracking eastward at 02 knots.

Invest 95L is an area of disturbed weather in the North Atlantic that has the potential for tropical development.

Invest 92E is an area of disturbed weather in the East Pacific that has the potential for tropical development.

NewsBytes:

Myanmar Update - The death toll from flooding in Myanmar has climbed to 46, with more than 200,000 people affected, authorities said Monday. The flooding has affected residents in 11 of Myanmar’s 14 states and divisions. In addition to the damage to housing and farmland, infrastructure has been badly hit, with roads and rail lines cut in many areas and telecommunication links broken.

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India - At least 81 people lost their lives and more than 80 lakh people were affected in fresh floods due to excessive rains in worst affected Gujarat, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Odisha. While the death toll touched 48 in West Bengal, 28 died in Rajasthan and five in Odisha, a home ministry statement said on Sunday. A total of 36,90,627 people in 9,691 villages of 210 blocks in 12 districts in West Bengal have been affected due to floods, while a population of 40 lakh in Gujarat and 4,80,399 in Odisha. In West Bengal, 48 deaths have been reported from various parts of the state during the floods owing to lightening, wall collapse, electrocution, snake bite and drowning.

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