Thursday, 28 August 2014

Storms and Floods

Tropical Storms - Roundup of Tropical Storms:


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Tropical Storm Marie located about 820 mi...1320 km WSW of Punta eugenia Mexico with maximum sustained winds...50 mph...85 km/h. Present movement...NW or 305 degrees at 16 mph...26 km/h.

Hazards affecting land: surf...swells generated by Marie are expected to gradually subside in the extreme southern Gulf of California today...and the West Coast of the Baja California peninsula and Southern California through Friday. Life-threatening surf and rip current conditions are likely as a result of these swells...as well as minor coastal flooding.

Hurricane Cristobal located about 305 mi...490 km NNW of Bermuda and about 600 mi...965 km SSW of Halifax Nova Scotia with maximum sustained winds...75 mph...120 km/h. Present movement...NE or 50 degrees at 26 mph...43 km/h.

Hazards affecting land: surf...swells generated by Cristobal are affecting Bermuda and the U.S. East Coast from North Carolina northward through New England. These swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions.

NewsBytes:

China - A landslide in Guizhou province has claimed the lives of at least seven people and left 20 others missing. The landslide destroyed more than 70 houses in the village of Yingping.

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