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Mid-Year Weather Report
Aired July 06, 2003 - 18:47 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KELLI ARENA, CNN ANCHOR: 2003 has just passed the halfway mark, but it feels like there have been enough weather events to fill a whole year. From record rains to tornadoes it's been a turbulent six months.
CNN meteorologist Rob Marciano has the midterm weather report.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST (voice-over): A year ago, up and down the East Coast they were praying for rain, begging for an end to the nearly four years of drought.
Be careful what you beg for. The eastern drought has been swept away by months of above-average rain, some of it causing scenes like this, near disaster at a Florida dam last month.
On the flipside, in the western U.S. from Montana to the Mexican border, the dry weather continues and with it water restrictions, crisis conditions on farms and ranches, and a continuing plague of wildfires and grasshoppers.
In the American Heartland the big news was bad news, a bevy of tornadoes. May of 2003 saw a record 562 twisters nation wide. The first half of this year saw 53 tornado deaths. A year ago there were only 11 in the same period.
The World Meteorological Organization said average land temperatures were the warmest ever measured. The WMO said we're also on a record pace for establishing new high temperature records. They're being set faster than anytime since such record keeping began in the late 1800s.
The U.N.'s weather agency stopped short of saying all of this is the result of human impact on the climate or the relatively mild spell of El Nino weather which wrapped up this spring.
The most tragic weather events this year were in India. In May and June, a heat wave that sometimes topped 120 degrees was blamed for an estimated 1,400 deaths.
And, one place where the weather is about normal right now, the research station at the South Pole where it's mid-winter and about 50 below zero.
Rob Marciano, CNN. (END VIDEOTAPE)
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Aired July 6, 2003 - 18:47 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KELLI ARENA, CNN ANCHOR: 2003 has just passed the halfway mark, but it feels like there have been enough weather events to fill a whole year. From record rains to tornadoes it's been a turbulent six months.
CNN meteorologist Rob Marciano has the midterm weather report.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST (voice-over): A year ago, up and down the East Coast they were praying for rain, begging for an end to the nearly four years of drought.
Be careful what you beg for. The eastern drought has been swept away by months of above-average rain, some of it causing scenes like this, near disaster at a Florida dam last month.
On the flipside, in the western U.S. from Montana to the Mexican border, the dry weather continues and with it water restrictions, crisis conditions on farms and ranches, and a continuing plague of wildfires and grasshoppers.
In the American Heartland the big news was bad news, a bevy of tornadoes. May of 2003 saw a record 562 twisters nation wide. The first half of this year saw 53 tornado deaths. A year ago there were only 11 in the same period.
The World Meteorological Organization said average land temperatures were the warmest ever measured. The WMO said we're also on a record pace for establishing new high temperature records. They're being set faster than anytime since such record keeping began in the late 1800s.
The U.N.'s weather agency stopped short of saying all of this is the result of human impact on the climate or the relatively mild spell of El Nino weather which wrapped up this spring.
The most tragic weather events this year were in India. In May and June, a heat wave that sometimes topped 120 degrees was blamed for an estimated 1,400 deaths.
And, one place where the weather is about normal right now, the research station at the South Pole where it's mid-winter and about 50 below zero.
Rob Marciano, CNN. (END VIDEOTAPE)
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
