SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1985
MEAN MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE 28.0 DEGREES
MEAN TEMPERATURE
0.1 DEGREE ABOVE NORMAL
25.8 DEGREES 0.8 DEGREE ABOVE NORMAL
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MEAN MINIMUM TEMPERATURE 24.0 DEGREES - 1.3 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL 20.9 DEGREES - 1.6 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL
MEAN DEW POINT
TOTAL EVAPORATION
134.2 MM - 28.4 MM BELOW NORMAL
MAX IMUM TEMPERATURE OF 30.4 DEGREES WAS RECORDED ON OCTOBER 13 MINIMUM TEMPERATURE OF 20.3 DEGREES WAS RECORDED ON OCTOBER 20
A BUSY MONTH FOR TROPICAL CYCLONES
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SIX TROPICAL CYCLONES OCCURRED OVER THE WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC AND THE SOUTH CHINA SEA DURING OCTOBER, THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY REPORTED TODAY.
TYPHOON ANDY, AFTER CROSSING SOUTHERN HAINAN IN LATE SEPTEMBER, WEAKENED INTO A SEVERE TROPICAL STORM. IT LANDED OVER VIETNAM ABOUT 200 NAUTICAL MILES SOUTH OF HANOI ON THE EVENING OF OCTOBER 1 AND DISSIPATED OVERLAND THE FOLLOWING MORNING.
IN CENTRAL VIETNAM, 46 PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND 25 000 HECTARES OF PADDY FIELDS WERE DESTROYED. RIVERS ALSO OVERFLOWED, DISRUPTING TRANSPORTATION BETWEEN HANOI AND HO CHI MINH CITY FOR A FEW DAYS.
TROPICAL STORM BRENDA WHICH FORMED ABOUT 440 NAUTICAL MILES EAST OF LUZON ON SEPTEMBER 30 WAS SLOW-MOVING AT FIRST.
IT MOVED NORTHWESTWARDS ON OCTOBER 2 AND INTENSIFIED INTO A TYPHOON THE FOLLOWING DAY ABOUT 440 NAUTICAL MILES SOUTHEAST OF TAIPEI.
BRENDA TURNED NORTHWARDS EARLY ON OCTOBER 4 AND PASSED ABOUT
IT 60 NAUTICAL MILES EAST-NORTHEAST OF TAIPEI AROUND NOON. THEN RECURVED IN THE AFTERNOON AND TOOK A NORTHEASTERLY COURSE OVER THE EAST CHINA SEA.
ON OCTOBER 5 IT PASSED ABOUT 50 NAUTICAL MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHEJU. THE SAME EVENING, BRENDA SKIRTED THE SOUTHERN COAST OF KOREA AND FINALLY BECAME AN EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONE OVER THE SEA OF JAPAN ABOUT 240 NAUTICAL MILES EAST-SOUTHEAST OF SEOUL.
LANDSLIPS WERE REPORTED IN THE EASTERN AND NORTHERN PARTS OF TA IWAN WHERE TRAFFIC WAS SERIOUSLY DISRUPTED.
/A JAPANESE
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