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Date Posted: 17:36:27 05/18/02 Sat
Author: gmike
Subject: 115 Degree Heat In India, May Snow Here In The Northeast

India Swelters in Deadly Heat Wave

By Omer Farooq
Associated Press Writer
Friday, May 17, 2002; 1:37 PM

HYDERABAD, India �� India baked in a heat wave Friday so intense that mud huts became as hot as ovens and birds in trees dropped dead, villagers said. This month's heat has killed 638 people nationwide.

Officials described the temperatures exceeding 115 degrees as "a natural calamity."

In Andhra Pradesh state, 622 people died. Temperatures there reached a record 124 degrees, said D.C. Roshaiah, an official in charge of relief work in the state.

Most of the dead were old people unable to bear the extreme heat, said Rajshekhar Murthy, a health worker in the state's Guntur district, where 102 people died.

P. Vijaylakshmi, a farmer in Kovvuru village in a remote corner of Andhra Pradesh, described the height of the heat wave last Friday as "the worst day of my life."

"How I can forget it? There was no place to hide. Even the dirt floor of my hut felt like an oven," he said.

Villagers said the heat was so intense that birds fell from the trees.

Similar heat waves struck Andhra Pradesh in 1996 and 1998, but this year has been the worst, state weather officials said. Andrha Pradesh is the fifth-largest state in India, with 76 million people.

Murthy, the health worker, said the number of dead would have been higher had local officials not issued warnings and supplied extra drinking water to the poor.

"The administration sounded a warning a week in advance," said Poonam Malkondaiah, an official in West Godavari district, where at least 50 people perished.

"People were told not to venture out of their homes, especially around noon when the heat wave reaches its peak. If there were compelling reasons to go out, they were asked to cover themselves," she said.

It has been an abnormally hot May in southern India. Temperatures have been 7 percent above the monthly average.

The national capital New Delhi and other parts of northern India have also been sweltering. Sixteen people died in the desert state of Rajasthan as temperatures climbed to 117 on Friday.

Andhra Pradesh's Chief Minister Chandra Babu Naidu set up a scientific committee to establish whether global warming was causing the heat wave.

However, meteorologists quickly blamed scorching desert winds from the northwest, not the greenhouse effect or deforestation.

"Heat waves always precede the monsoon rains. They induce the moisture to come in," said R. Rajamani, an environmental expert based in Hyderabad. Monsoons normally arrive in southern India in early June, and in the rest of the country over subsequent weeks.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33549-2002May17.html

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SXUS99 KBGM 182204
RERBGM

RECORD REPORT FOR BINGHAMTON AIRPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
603 PM EDT SAT MAY 18 2002

...GREATEST SNOWFALL SO LATE IN THE SEASON AT BINGHAMTON REGIONAL
AIRPORT...

1.7 INCHES OF SNOW FELL THIS MORNING AT THE BINGHAMTON REGIONAL
AIRPORT. THIS TIES FOR THIRD THE GREATEST 24 HOUR SNOWFALL IN MAY.
THE GREATEST MAY SNOWFALL WAS 3.4 INCHES ON MAY 9TH 1966. SECOND
GREATEST WAS 2.1 INCHES ON MAY 8TH AND 9TH 1977. TODAYS SNOW TIED
WITH 1.7 INCHES THAT FELL ON THE 17TH AND 18TH IN 1973.

THE LATEST IN THE SPRING SNOW HAS FALLEN IS MAY 18TH IN 1973 AND
TODAY. IN 1973, 0.7 INCHES OF SNOW FELL.

THE SNOWFALL TOTAL FOR MAY IS 1.7 INCHES. THIS IS THE FOURTH
GREATEST FOR THE MONTH OF MAY.

IN ADDITION...

TODAYS HIGH TEMPERATURE TIED THE LOWEST HIGH TEMPERATURE FOR THIS
DATE. THE PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 42 SET IN 1973.

ALSO, TODAYS LOW TEMPERATURE TIED THE RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE FOR
THIS DATE. THE PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 32 SET IN 1973.

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NOUS41 KALY 182039
PNSALY
CTZ001-MAZ001-NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066-VTZ013-014-091900-

PUBLIC INFORMATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
439 PM EST SAT MAY 18 2002

THE FOLLOWING ARE UNOFFICIAL TOTAL SNOWFALL AMOUNTS IN INCHES TAKEN
FROM COOPERATIVE OBSERVERS...SKYWARN SPOTTERS...AND LOCAL TV
SPOTTERS.

IN EASTERN NEW YORK...

...ALBANY COUNTY...
KNOX 4.5... 0100 PM...
RAVENA 2.8... 1100 AM...
ALBANY 2.2... 0200 PM...

...COLUMBIA COUNTY...
SCHODACK 2.5... 1100 AM...

...GREENE COUNTY...
PRATTSVILLE 8... 1230 PM...
LEXINGTON 5.8... 0230 PM...

...MONTGOMERY COUNTY...
GLEN 2.9... 1230 PM...

...RENSSELAER COUNTY...
GRAFTON 4.5... 1200 PM...

...SARATOGA COUNTY...
PROVIDENCE 1.5... 1230 PM...
CLIFTON PARK 1... 1130 AM...

...SCHENECTADY COUNTY...
DUANESBURG 2... 1100 AM...

...SCHOHARIE COUNTY...
SUMMIT 6.5... 0100 PM...
JEFFERSON 5... 0230 PM...

...BENNINGTON COUNTY VERMONT...
READSBORO 2... 1230 PM...

$$
MJC

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SXUS99 KALB 181821 CCA
RERALB

RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
220 PM EDT SAT MAY 18 2002...CORRECTION

...RECORD SNOW AT ALBANY FOR THIS DATE...

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IT HAS EVER SNOWED AT ALBANY ON MAY 18. IT IS
ALSO THE LATEST DATE IN THE SPRING THAT MEASURABLE SNOW HAS BEEN
RECORDED IN ALBANY.

THE LATEST DATE IN THE SPRING THAT A TRACE AMOUNT OF SNOW HAS BEEN
RECORDED IN ALBANY WAS ON MAY 28 IN 1902.

AT NOON...2.2 INCHES OF SNOW HAD FALLEN IN ALBANY...THE SNOW HAS
ENDED ACROSS THE REGION.

OTHER DAILY SNOWFALL RECORDS IN MAY INCLUDE...

MAY 10 5.0 INCHES IN 1945
MAY 18 2.2 INCHES IN 2002
MAY 9 1.6 INCHES IN 1977
MAY 11 0.5 INCH IN 1907
MAY 7 0.2 INCH IN 1967

MAY 2002 NOW RANKS AS THE SECOND SNOWIEST MAY ON RECORD. OUR MONTHLY
SNOWFALL RECORDS DATE BACK TO 1795.

THE TOP 5 MONTHLY SNOWFALL TOTALS FOR MAY ARE...

MAY 1945 5.4 INCHES
MAY 2002 2.2 INCHES
MAY 1977 1.6 INCHES
MAY 1966 1.4 INCHES
MAY 1907 0.5 INCH

...CORRECTED TO REVISE TODAYS SNOWFALL TOTAL UPWARD DUE TO MELTING...

$$
MAC/GG

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NOUS41 KBOX 182057
PNSBOX
CTZ002>004-MAZ002>024-RIZ001>007-NHZ011>012-191200-

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
455 PM EDT SAT MAY 18 2002

THE FOLLOWING ARE SNOWFALL REPORTS IN INCHES FROM THE STORM WHICH
BEGAN MAY 18. THE LATE SEASON NOR'EASTER DEVELOPED OFF THE NEW
JERSEY COAST THIS MORNING THEN TRACKED SOUTHEAST OF CAPE COD THIS
AFTERNOON. THANKS TO HIGHWAY DEPARTMENTS COOPERATIVE WEATHER
OBSERVERS...SKYWARN...VOLUNTEER SPOTTERS AND THE MEDIA FOR YOUR
REPORTS.

THIS SUMMARY IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON OUR HOME PAGE AT
HTTP://WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/ER/BOX

SNOWFALL REPORTS
----------------

...MASSACHUSETTS...

...ESSEX COUNTY...
METHUEN 0.8

...FRANKLIN COUNTY...
LEVERETT 1.0

...HAMPDEN COUNTY...
TOLLAND 1.8 ELEVATION 1500 FT

...HAMPSHIRE COUNTY...
GOSHEN 3.0
CHESTERFIELD 2.8

...MIDDLESEX COUNTY...
PEPPERELL 0.5
WOBURN 0.2

...WORCESTER COUNTY...
GARDNER 2.0
PHILLIPSTON 2.0
WORCESTER ARPT 0.7 DAILY SNOWFALL AND LATEST MEAS. RECORD

...NEW HAMPSHIRE...

...CHESHIRE COUNTY...
WALPOLE 3.0
JAFFREY 2.4

...HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY...
SOUTH NASHUA 1.5
WILTON 1.1 ELEVATION 700 FT

< snip rest are rainfall and wind reports >

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PNSGYX
MEZ007>009-012>014-018>028-NHZ001>010-013-014-190000-

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
250 PM EDT SAT MAY 18 2002

...YET ANOTHER VERY LATE SEASON SNOWFALL FOR PORTIONS OF NEW
HAMPSHIRE AND WESTERN MAINE...

A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM...PASSING SOUTH OF NANTUCKET ISLAND...PRODUCED
YET ANOTHER VERY LATE SEASON SNOWFALL FOR MUCH OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AND
PARTS OF WESTERN MAINE. SNOW EVEN FELL RIGHT TO THE COAST OF NEW
HAMPSHIRE AND SOUTHWEST MAINE.

THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF SNOWFALL REPORTS RECEIVED AT THE FORECAST
OFFICE IN GRAY ME AS OF 245 PM...

...MAINE...
NO REPORTS

...NEW HAMPSHIRE...

...CARROLL...
CENTER OSSIPEE 3.0 INCHES 100 PM

...GRAFTON...
ENFIELD 1.5 INCHES 1100 AM

...MERRIMACK...
NEW LONDON 2.0 INCHES 1008 AM

...SULLIVAN...
WASHINGTON 4.0 INCHES 245 PM
LEMPSTER 3.3 INCHES 107 PM
SPRINGFIELD 2.5 INCHES 1148 PM

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WOULD LIKE TO THANK WEATHER SPOTTERS...
COOPERATIVE OBSERVERS...HIGHWAY DEPARTMENTS...AND LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES FOR THEIR VALUABLE AND TIMELY SNOWFALL REPORTS.

$$

HAYES

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thanks for posting this Mike. I was there during the 1996 one and almost died myself -- zazoo, 01:09:16 05/19/02 Sun
- Thanks for the post Mike. Zaz, ... -- Cari, 11:25:27 05/22/02 Wed