Breaking News, Latest Philippines Headlines, World, Entertainment, Politics, Weather & Video News
Manila, Philippines (AFP) A super typhoon slammed into the Philippines Sunday, battering the heavily populated main island of Luzon with strong winds and heavy rain that are expected to cause flooding and destroy crops, authorities said. Super Typhoon Noru made landfall in Burdeos municipality on the Polillo islands, part of Quezon province, at 5:30 pm (0930 GMT), according to the state weather forecaster. amj/smw © Agence France-Presse
ATM: Mga deployable response groups (DRGs) ng @coastguardph District NCR-Central Luzon, nakahanda na sa posibleng evacuation o rescue operations sa kasagsagan ng #KardingPH sa Metro Manila at mga kalapit na probinsya! Heavy Rainfall Warning No. 2 NCR_PRSDWeather System: Super Typhoon #KardingPHIssued at: 5:00 PM,25 September 2022 pic.twitter.com/fZ2B44M6yL — PAGASA-DOST (@dost_pagasa) September 25, 2022 Heavy Rainfall Warning No. 1A NCR_PRSD Weather System: Super Typhoon #KardingPH Issued at: 3:39 PM,25 September 2022 pic.twitter.com/r2XlukDl1r — PAGASA-DOST (@dost_pagasa) September […]
Tokyo, Japan (AFP) Thousands were without running water and power in central Japan on Sunday after Typhoon Talas dumped record rains on the region, triggering floods and landslides, and leaving at least two dead. The body of a man in Kakegawa city, Shizuoka region, was pulled from what remained of his house on Saturday after a landslide destroyed it, a regional disaster management official told AFP. “Another male (in neighbouring Fukuroi city) was driving to […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Two people were confirmed dead and another two were found “without vital signs” after Typhoon Nanmadol slammed into Japan over the weekend, a government spokesman said Tuesday. The storm system made landfall by the southwestern city of Kagoshima on Sunday night, and dumped heavy rain across the Kyushu region before moving along the west coast. By Tuesday morning, it was downgraded to an extratropical cyclone as it crossed to the […]
by Atish PATEL / Yuichi YAMAZAKI Agence France Presse IZUMI, Japan (AFP) — Millions of people in Japan were under evacuation warnings on Monday as Typhoon Nanmadol brought strong winds and heavy rain to the southwest of the country after making landfall overnight. The powerful system has weakened since arriving on land Sunday evening around Kagoshima city in the southwestern region of Kyushu, but it has still uprooted trees, smashed windows and left rivers […]
Izumi, Japan (AFP) Typhoon Nanmadol made landfall on Japan’s southwestern coast on Sunday evening, the country’s weather agency said, as authorities urged millions to seek shelter from the powerful storm’s rains and wind. “The eye of Typhoon Nanmadol made landfall near Kagoshima city around 7.00pm (1000GMT) on Sunday,” the Japan Meteorological Agency said in a brief statement on their website. © Agence France-Presse
Minamata, Japan (AFP) by Atish PATEL / Yuichi YAMAZAKI Thousands of people took refuge in shelters in southwestern Japan on Sunday as powerful Typhoon Nanmadol churned towards the region, prompting authorities to urge over four million residents to evacuate. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has issued a rare “special warning” for Kagoshima and Miyazaki in the Kyushu region — an alert that is issued only when it forecasts conditions seen once in several decades. By […]
by Natsuko FUKUE Agence France Presse Japan’s weather agency warned Saturday of “unprecedented” risks from a “very dangerous” typhoon heading towards the southern Kyushu island, urging residents to take shelter ahead of the storm. Typhoon Nanmadol was producing gusts of up to 270 kilometres (167 miles) an hour and classed as a “violent” storm, the agency’s top level, on Saturday. By late afternoon it was approaching the remote Minami Daito island, 400 kilometres east […]
SHANGHAI, China (AFP) — High winds and heavy rain lashed China’s densely populated east coast on Thursday, after Typhoon Muifa forced around 1.6 million people to leave their homes and grounded most flights at Shanghai’s main airports. Muifa is the strongest tropical cyclone to hit Shanghai — home to more than 25 million people — since record-keeping began in 1949, state broadcaster CCTV said. However, there were no immediate reports of any deaths or […]
Shanghai, China (AFP) All passenger flights at Shanghai’s two international airports have been cancelled as Typhoon Muifa nears landfall on China’s east coast, the airport operator said Wednesday. “Shanghai Airport Group will announce flight adjustments at both airports to the public in a timely manner, in line with the typhoon’s impact,” the firm said in a social media statement. Typhoon Muifa is expected to make landfall at around 7:00 pm on Wednesday (1100 GMT), […]
Gusty conditions forecast over extreme Northern Luzon but no tropical cyclone wind signal forecast to be hoisted (Eagle News) — Typhoon “Inday” has slightly weakened as it approaches the Yaeyama Islands of Southern Japan. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), the typhoon, however, is unlikely to directly bring heavy rains in the country throughout the forecast period. As of PAGASA’s 5 a.m. weather bulletin, the The center of […]
Typhoon is far off extreme northern Luzon, and no wind signal hoisted in the country Trough of typhoon Southwest Monsoon may bring rains over Extreme Northern Luzon, western sections of Central and Southern Luzon (Eagle News) – Typhoon Inday has intensified further on Saturday, September 10, but no tropical cyclone wind signal is hoisted in the country as the typhoon is still 395 kilometers of Itbayat, Batanes — in the extreme northern Luzon region. […]
