Sunday, 9 August 2015

Storms and Floods

Tropical Storms - Roundup of Tropical Storms:

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Hurricane Hilda is located about 720 mi...1160 km ESE of Hilo Hawaii and about 935 mi...1505 km ESE of Honolulu Hawaii with maximum sustained winds...125 mph...205 km/h. Present movement...WNW or 295 degrees at 12 mph...19 km/h.

Tropical Storm 13w (Soudelor), located approximately 148 nm west of Taipei, Taiwan, is tracking north-northwestward at 10 knots.

Nine persons were killed and three others missing as Super Typhoon Soudelor left behind a trail of destruction in eastern China, uprooting trees, hitting power supply and causing the heaviest rains in a century, state media reported today. Heavy downpours have caused mudslides and cave-ins led to several house collapses, affecting over 2 lakh people after Soudelor, called the biggest typhoon of the year earlier in the week with winds of up to 230 kilometres an hour, made a landfall in the Chinese coast last night.

Tropical Storm 15w (Molave), located approximately 453 nm south of Yokosuka, Japan, is tracking northward at 06 knots.

Invest 93E is an area of disturbed weather in the East Pacific that has the potential for tropical development.

NewsBytes:

India - Four persons including three members of a family were feared dead as flash floods triggered by a cloudburst wrecked havoc in Dharampur area of Mandi district, 250 km from Shimla, this morning, inundating vast areas, washing away vehicles and drowning several head of cattle.

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