Sunday, 24 August 2014

Storms and Floods

Tropical Storms - Roundup of Tropical Storms:

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Tropical storm Karina is located about 1500 mi...2415 km E of Hilo Hawaii and about 1480 mi...2385 km W of the southern tip of Baja California with maximum sustained winds...70 mph...110 km/h. Present movement...ENE or 75 degrees at 9 mph...15 km/h.

Post-Tropical storm Lowell is located about 1110 mi...1790 km W of the southern tip of Baja California with maximum sustained winds...35 mph...55 km/h. Present movement...NW or 310 degrees at 8 mph...13 km/h.

Hazards affecting land: Surf...swells generated by Lowell along the coasts of the Baja

California peninsula and Southern California are subsiding.

Hurricane Marie is located about 420 mi...675 km WSW of Manzanillo Mexico and about 470 mi...755 km S of the southern tip of Baja California with maximum sustained winds...135 mph...215 km/h. Present movement...WNW or 295 degrees at 15 mph...24 km/h.

Hazards affecting land: Surf...swells generated by Marie are affecting the southwestern

coast of Mexico. These swells will spread northwestward along the West Coast of the Baja California peninsula and the southern Gulf of California during the next couple of days...and are likely to cause extremely dangerous life-threatening surf and rip current conditions.

Tropical Storm Cristobal forms in the western Atlantic. No details available as yet.

NewsBytes:

India - Incessant rains and an unprecedented rise in the water level of the Subansiri have triggered landslides and flash floods in Arunachal Pradesh with the swirling river water leaving a trail of destruction. The Subansiri river recorded an unprecedented rise in the water level at Daporijo in Upper Subansiri district on Thursday night.

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