2009 May 11 | Maleny Weather

Week’s Weather

May 2009	Rain 9.00am	Evap mm.	Bright Sun hours	Cloud 3.00pm
Mon 4th	Nil	2.2 mm	7.0	2Cu²,3Sc,2Ac
Tues 5th	Nil	2.8 mm	5.5	3Sc,3Ns
Wed 6^th	4.4 mm	3.0 mm	4.3	2Cu,2Cu²,3Ac
Thur 7th	15.0 mm	1.6 mm	5.3	2Cu²,2Cb,2Ac,2Ns
Fri 8th	Nil	1.6 mm	7.5	8Ci
Sat 9th	Nil	2.0 mm	7.8	1Cu,2Ac²
Sun 10th	Nil	2.0 mm	8.0	nil

An extensive high over the Bight covering the whole of Australia was mainly responsible for our weather on the Range. On Wednesday, moist maritime south-easterly winds brought in a little more than the isolated showers forecast and it rained more or less continuously from 3.30am until midnight. Overnight temperatures were above average until Saturday morning when the mercury fell to ten degrees.

Tropical Storms in Asia

Devastating storms in Asia
Over the past few days devastating tropical storms have struck Nepal, India and the Philippines. In southern and western Nepal 15 people were reported killed and more than 170 injured. In West Bengal, India 11 people were killed and 25 injured Flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rains left 20 people dead in the eastern Philippines and nearly 50,000 displaced.

Hurricane Name Change

Four hurricane names retired
Three hurricane names in the Atlantic—Gustav, Ike and Paloma—and one in the eastern North Pacific—Alma—have been retired from the official name rotation by the WMO Hurricane Committee because of the deaths and damage they caused in 2008. The Committee issues the list of potential names for tropical cyclones to be used every six years for both ocean basins. These names would have been used again in 2014 and will be replaced by Gonzalo, Isaias, Paulette and Amanda, respectively.

Brazil Floods

Floods in Brazil

218,000 people across a swath of northern Brazil three times the size of Alaska have fled the worst rainfall and flooding in decades, braving newly formed rivers teeming with anacondas, alligators and legless reptiles known as “worm lizards” whose bite is excruciating. Already, 36 people have been killed in the flooding, sparked by unusually heavy rains that have been falling for two months on 10 of Brazil’s 26 states. Alligators swam through the city of Santarem, civil defence official Walkiria Coelho said. Scorpions congregated on the same high ground as people escaping the rising water. No injuries were reported. Rivers were still rising as much as 30cm a day in Maranhao. The mighty Rio Negro River that feeds the Amazon was just one metre below a record set in 1953 near the jungle city of Manaus, and experts said the record could be broken by June. In the jungle city of Altamira, more rain fell in three hours than normally falls in two months.

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