WORLD NEWS/ IGOR MOVES ON TO GREENLAND

Hurricane Igor delivered a punishing blow to Newfoundland Canada, which suffered one of its worst hits by a hurricane in the past century. Igor made it all the way to SE Newfoundland yesterday as a Category 1 hurricane, bringing a peak wind gust of 107mph to Cape Pine in SE Newfoundland. Igor brought sustained winds of 58mph, gusting to 85mph, to Newfoundland's capital, St John's. The city picked up 3.99" of rain during Igor's passage. Widespread rain amounts of 5 to 9 inches fell over much of SE Newfoundland's rocky terrain, which is unable to absorb so much water. The resulting severe flooding washed out hundreds of roads, collapsed several major bridges, and forced numerous rescues of people trapped on the 2nd stories of their homes by flood waters. Officials in St John's report 1 person missing in the country, who may have been swept out to sea. Otherwise, there were no major injuries reported. Igor generated swells of 20 to 26 feet that pounded the coast of Newfoundland last night and this morning; significant wave heights reached 39 feet at the Newfoundland Grand Banks Buoy, and a storm surge of 3.28 feet hit the NE shores of Newfoundland last night. Igor is now a large and powerful extratropical storm off Greenland and Labrador, and continues to generate hurricane force winds over water, winds at Angisoq, Greenland were sustained at 66mph this morning. Elsewhere in the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Lisa  has remained fairly stationary over the last 24 hours. The storm, which is about 500 miles from the Cape Verde Islands, is not expected to affect any land mass. Invest 95L, in the S Central Caribbean, could become a Tropical Depression later today. Hurricane hunters are due to fly into the storm, which is near Venezuela and the islands of Curacao, Aruba, and Bonaire. And finally, in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, Tropical Depression Georgette hit the tip of Baja California yesterday, but dropped little rain. Georgette is in the Gulf of California, headed N, and could bring heavy rains to Arizona today.