Tropical Storms - Roundup of Tropical Storms:
In the Eastern Pacific Ocean: Hurricane Norman is located about 600 mi...965 km sw of the southern tip of Baja California with maximum sustained winds...115 mph...185 km/h. Present movement...w or 275 degrees at 7 mph...11 km/h.
In the Western Pacific Ocean: Typhoon 25w (Jebi), located approximately 303 nm northeast of Anderson AFB, is tracking westward at 10 knots.
In the Central Pacific Ocean: Hurricane Miriam is located about 985 mi...1585 km ese of Hilo Hawaii and about 1195 mi...1920 km ese of Honolulu Hawaii with maximum sustained winds...80 mph...130 km/h. Present movement...wnw or 300 degrees at 8 mph...13 km/h.
NewsBytes:
Myanmar - As many as 85 villages were flooded in Myanmar after a dam failed, unleashing waters that blocked a major highway and forced more than 63,000 people from their homes, a state-run newspaper said on Thursday. The disaster spotlights safety concerns about dams in Southeast Asia after last month’s collapse of a hydroelectric dam in neighboring Laos that displaced thousands of people and killed at least 27. Firefighters, troops and officials launched a desperate rescue effort on Wednesday after the spillway of an irrigation dam burst at Swar creek in central Myanmar, sending a torrent of water through villages and the nearby towns of Swar and Yedashe. By Thursday morning the water was receding, but two people remained missing and were feared to have been washed away.
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