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by Elaine Yu Agence France Presse MACAU, Macau (AFP) — The death toll from Severe Typhoon Hato rose to at least 16 Thursday after the storm left a trail of destruction across southern China, blacking out Macau’s mega-casinos and battering Hong Kong’s skyscrapers. Eight died in the gambling hub of Macau, where local media showed cars underwater and people swimming along what are normally streets. The enclave’s famed mega-casinos were running on backup generators. […]
by Aaron Tam. Laura Mannering and Elaine Yu Agence France-Presse HONG KONG, China – Typhoon Hato ripped a path of destruction across southern China on Wednesday, killing 10 people after battering Hong Kong skyscrapers, flooding streets and forcing thousands to flee to shelters. The storm had raised Hong Kong’s most severe Typhoon 10 warning, only the third time a storm of this power has pounded the financial hub in the past 20 years. Five people were killed in […]
PINGTUNG COUNTY, Taiwan (Reuters) — Typhoon Haitang, the second storm to hit Taiwan in 24 hours, battered southern and central parts of the island on Monday (July 31) after Typhoon Nesat injured more than 100 people and shut businesses at the weekend. Some cities in southern Taiwan remained closed on Monday with Typhoon Haitang bringing torrential rain, flooding and landslides. Typhoon Haitang made landfall in the south and southeast on Sunday (July 30) afternoon, the government […]
(Eagle News) – Typhoon Gorio is expected to exit the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) Sunday morning (July 30), as it heads towards Taiwan, according to PAGASA’s latest weather bulletin. As of 10 a.m. today (July 29), the eye of typhoon Gorio was located at 335 kilometers north of Basco, Batanes with maximum sustained winds of 145 kilometers per hour near the center and gusts of up to 180 kph. By Sunday morning, it […]
(Eagle News Service) — Gorio intensified into a typhoon on Friday, as it moved toward Taiwan and continued to enhance the southwest monsoon, triggering rains over parts of the country. Signal Number 2 has been raised over Batanes, and Signal Number 1 over the Babuyan Group of Islands, where rains and maximum sustained winds of 30 to 60 kilometers per hour are expected in 36 hours. In its 5 p.m. bulletin, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical […]
CHINA (Reuters) – Typhoon Merbok, the second typhoon of the year, made landfall on the coast of Shenzhen City in south China’s Guangdong Province on Monday night, moving northward at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour. The typhoon brought strong gales to the Dapeng Peninsula where it made landfall at around 23:00 on Monday, with waves of up to five meters high seen belting a pier. Local maritime authorities had earlier banned all ships […]
Sydney, Australia (AFP) — Australians are bracing for the worst cyclone in the country’s northeast in several years, with residents evacuated and schools closed amid forecasts of destructive winds and rain. Cyclone Debbie has been forming off the coast of Queensland state in recent days, the official Bureau of Meteorology said Sunday, with its “very destructive core” expected to hit land early Tuesday morning. “The very destructive core of Tropical Cyclone Debbie is currently expected to […]
QUEZON CITY, Dec. 28 (PIA) – About 402 classrooms in 118 schools in the TY Nina-affected Regions 4-A, 4-B and 5 are being used as evacuation centers for 4,050 displaced families or 15, 684 individuals. This was gathered from the report of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council released at 6:00 o’clock in the afternoon of December 26. In Region 4-A or CALABARZON, 25 classrooms in 5 schools in the Division […]
(Eagle News) — “Nina” has intensified into a typhoon overnight as it continued its path in a west northwest direction, according to the country’s weather bureau, PAGASA. Forecasters said Nina (international name Nock-Ten) is “expected to intensify further before making landfall.” “It is expected to make landfall over Catanduanes by Sunday (Dec. 25) afternoon or evening,” according to PAGASA’s severe weather bulletin no. 6 issued at 11 a.m. Estimated rainfall amount is from moderate […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council was placed under blue alert due to the severe tropical storm “Nina”, with its constituent government departments and agencies holding a disaster risk assessment meeting to make sure that areas affected by “Nina” are well prepared for the storm’s onslaught. https://youtu.be/OlwTf2dYJDs
QUEZON City, Philippines – Severe tropical storm “Nina” continues to gather strength as it nears Borongan, Eastern Samar. “Nina” is moving in a western-northwestern direction at the speed of 20 kilometers per hour. The PAGASA said that “Nina” will make landfall on December 25 and will be felt in Metro Manila on December 26. “Nina” will leave the Philippine area of responsibility on Wednesday, December 27.
(Eagle News) — Ten provinces have been placed under Signal number 3 as typhoon “Karen,” international name Sarika, further intensified as it continued to threaten the province of Aurora. The typhoon is expected to pass close to Polillo Islands tonight and make landfall over Aurora early Sunday morning (October 16). The provinces placed under public storm warning signal number three are: Pangasinan, Northern Zambales, Tarlac, Nueva Ecija, Aurora, Northern Quezon including Polilio Island, La […]
