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Ambo has more landfalls than super typhoon Yolanda (Eagle News) — Severe Tropical Storm “Ambo” (international name Vongfong) has maintained its strength as it moves towards Bulacan on Friday night, May 15, after making a record of seven landfalls in the country, according to the country’s weather bureau, PAGASA. With maximum sustained winds of 100 kilometers per hour and gusts of up to 165 kph, it is moving northwest at 20 kph. At 7 […]
Over 140,000 people were forced into cramped shelters as a powerful typhoon hammered the Philippines on Friday, compounding the nation’s battle with the coronavirus pandemic. Typhoon Ambo (international name Vongfong) has dumped heavy rains since it roared ashore on Thursday, with hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people in its path on the coast or in flimsy homes. The storm hit as tens of millions of Filipinos are hunkered down at home against the coronavirus, but […]
(Eagle News) — Tropical storm “Ambo” (international name Vongfong) further intensified while moving north-northwestward over the Philippine Sea east of Samar Island, according to PAGASA’s weather bulletin issued Wednesday morning, May 13, 2020. Because of this, Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal No. 1 is hoisted over the northern portion of Eastern Samar, and the eastern portion of Northern Samar. Under TCWS No. 1 are the towns of Jipapad, Maslog, Arteche, San Policarpio, Oras, Dolores, Can-avid, […]
(Eagle News) — “Ambo” intensified into a tropical storm Tuesday night and is expected to “bring moderate to heavy rains over Eastern Visayas, Catanduanes, Albay, Sorsogon, and Masbate,” according to PAGASA’s 11 p.m. weather bulletin on May 12. The country’s weather bureau said that Tropical Storm Ambo (international name VONGFONG) may even “further intensify as it approaches the Eastern Visayas-Bicol Region area.” PAGASA issued a “heavy rainfall warning” last night, amd said that the […]
