July 18, 2005. Painted Lady Butterfly of Hartford, Wisconsin. 

Rooster Wind Chime 

Morning Papers - concluded

The weather at Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:


Scott Base

Overcast

-20.0°

Updated Wednesday 20 Jul 7:59AM


The Weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:

63 °F / 17 °C

Mostly Cloudy Humidity: 68% Dew Point: 52 °F / 11 °C

Wind: 4 mph / 6 km/h from the NW

Pressure: 29.99 in / 1016 hPa

Visibility: 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers UV: 4 out of 16

Clouds (AGL): Few 2200 ft / 670 m

Mostly Cloudy 8000 ft / 2438 m

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July 17, 2005. While TS Eurgene and Hurricane Emily are busy so is Typhoon Haitang packing 140 mph winds, Cat 5.  

July 19, 2005. Europe-Africa Satellite. To complete the picture.  

July 18, 2005. UNISYS GOES East. That is probably another storm in the making, it's just not office yet. Middle of the picture.  

July 19, 2005. The Western Hemisphere.  

July 19, 2005. UNISYS GOES West. "Eugene" in the Pacifc and "Emily" in the Atlantic. Mexico in the Middle.  

July 19,2005 Pacific Global Satellite. 

July 15, 2005. "Emily" but no "Eugene" yet. 

July 19, 2005. In the Pacific Tropical Storm Eugene at 60 mph winds and Hurricane Emily at a Cat One and 80 mph winds.  

July 19, 2005 Twin hurricanes. Will they meet over Mexico?  

Kindly see below under July 19, 2005. The message with these pictures was "Help Romania" Thank you.

July 17, 2005. Romania.

July 17, 2005. 

July 17, 2005. Galati, Romania. 

July 7, 2005. Galati, Romania. 

July 16, 2005. Romania. 

July 17, 2005. These pictures were accompanied with the message: "Help Romania" The conditions might be worse than the newspapers are reporting if these villages cannot be reached. 

July 19, 2005. Galati, Romania. 

Is anyone paying attention to Romania?

Epidemics - new risk in floods affected areas

published in issue 3473
page 2 at 2005-07-19

The greatest danger for the floods victims in eastern Romania’s Moldavia is now represented by the numerous centres of infection, which can be sources of epidemics. In the village of Vadu Rosca, Vrancea County, several thousands cows, dogs, pigs and chicken have died drowned in the flooding. Their bodies can still be seen in the streets or even in the people’s yards. The authorities have taken measures to collect them, but the equipment cannot reach all the regions because the waters have not entirely receded. The vaccination campaign is in full swing, but many locals refuse to go to dispensaries....

Fighting the Siret

...Environment Minister said yesterday that the waters of the Siret are being discharged at Calimanesti, at a rate of 800 cu.m. per second, but this will not prompt new floods. Lucia Varga, Secretary of State in Environment Ministry, said that the new discharges will conduct to a rise of the Siret waters by a few centimetres, but there will not be any danger. “I want to make a comparison, more and more frequently used lately, with the floods of 1970, when the Siret produced a disaster. Then, the flash flood counted 3,000 cu.m. per second, while now it has been 4,500 cu.m., much more.”...


Death toll rises to 21

...Premier Calin Popescu Tariceanu announced yesterday, at Victoria Palace, after a new session of the National Emergency Committee, which was attended for the third time also by President Traian Basescu, that the number of the floods victims has reached 21 in Moldavia, after the body of a man was discovered in the village of Maicanesti, Vrancea County. The latter was actually the county where the floods made the greatest number of victims - 14....