Tropical Storms - Roundup of Tropical Storms:
In the North Atlantic Ocean: Hurricane Harvey is located about 20 mi...30 km WSW of Victoria Texas and about 95 mi...150 km SE of San Antonio Texas with maximum sustained winds...80 mph...130 km/h. Present movement…NNW or 340 degrees at 6 mph...9 km/h.
Hurricane Harvey smashed into Texas late Friday, lashing a wide swath of the Gulf Coast with strong winds and torrential rain from the fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade. It was downgraded to a Category 1 storm just after 5 a.m.
In the Western Pacific: Tropical storm 16w (Pakhar), located approximately 271 nm northwest of Manila, Philippines, is tracking west-northwestward at 16 knots.
NewsBytes:
South Asia - Torrential monsoon rains triggered flooding and landslides that have killed more than 1,200 people in India, Bangladesh and Nepal over the past month. The floodwaters also stranded families and washed away crops. U.N. agencies rushed to provide aid to damaged areas, estimating that 41 million people have been affected in the three countries. “I could not find a single dry patch of land,” said the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent’s Matthew Marek, who flew over Bangladesh to survey the damages, Reuters reported. “Farmers are left with nothing, not even with clean drinking water.”
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