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(Eagle News) — The ridge of a high pressure area is affecting Luzon. As a result, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Metro Manila will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers. Flash floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms are possible. The rest of the country, the weather bureau said, will experience the same conditions. The entire country, PAGASA said, will have light to moderate winds and slight to moderate […]
ANKARA, Turkey (AFP) — Turkish rescuers evacuated a regional hospital on Wednesday and plucked stranded villagers off rooftops as flash floods and mudslides swept across the Black Sea coast. Officials said one person died of a heart attack in the mayhem and an elderly women was swept away by the rushing water and remained unaccounted for. The health ministry said eight people were also rushed to hospital when a bridge collapsed. “From a meteorological point […]
PAGASA monitoring LPA off Batanes (Eagle News) — The southwest monsoon is affecting the western section of Northern Luzon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is also monitoring a low pressure area estimated 520 km east of Basco, Batanes, PAGASA said Ilocos Region, Cagayan Valley, and the provinces of Abra, Apayao and Kalinga, as a result, will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides during moderate to […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Tropical Storm Fred, the sixth of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season, formed south of Puerto Rico and was expected to move westwards through the Caribbean, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said early Wednesday. The cyclone was about 40 miles (65 kilometers) southwest of Puerto Rico, the NHC said. Tropical storm warnings have been issued for Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and the Dominican Republic, where the cyclone is […]
(Eagle News) — Cloudy skies with rain showers are expected in the country on Wednesday, Aug. 11. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, Metro Manila, Ilocos Region, Cordillera Administrative Region, Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, CALABARZON, Bicol Region, Lubang Islands, and Kalayaan Islands, in particular, will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms due to the Low Pressure Area (LPA) estimated 560 km east of Calayan, Cagayan and the southwest […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AFP) — Thousands of homes have been damaged in Sudan after torrential rains caused heavy flooding, with many streets in the capital Khartoum deep in water, AFP correspondents said Sunday. Heavy rains usually fall in Sudan from June to October, and the country faces severe flooding every year, wrecking properties, infrastructure, and crops. In Atbara, a city in Sudan’s north-east, the official news agency SUNA reported that a number of houses had “collapsed” […]
Southwest monsoon affecting Luzon (Eagle News) — The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is monitoring a low pressure area and a tropical storm outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility. According to PAGASA, the southwest monsoon is also affecting Luzon. As a result, the weather bureau said Batanes and Babuyan Islands will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms. Flash floods during moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. Meanwhile, Visayas, […]
(Eagle News) — Cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms will be experienced over several parts of the Philippines as the southwest monsoon affects Luzon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said the same conditions are expected over the provinces of Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La Union, Pangasinan, Batanes, and Babuyan Group of Islands. Flash floods or landslides during times of moderate to heavy rains are possible. Partly cloudy to cloudy skies […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — More than a thousand homes were damaged and about 5,000 people evacuated in North Korea after flooding caused by heavy rains, the country’s state broadcaster reported, with swathes of farmland also inundated by the deluge. The TV report comes as the impoverished North in June admitted it was tackling a food crisis, sounding the alarm in a country with a moribund agricultural sector that has long struggled to feed itself. […]
(Eagle News) — The southwest monsoon is still affecting Luzon and Visayas. As a result, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Ilocos Region, Zambales, Benguet, Batanes and Babuyan Islands will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides during moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. Metro Manila and the rest of the country, the weather bureau said, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with […]
(Eagle News) — The southwest monsoon is affecting Luzon and Visayas. As a result, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Ilocos Region, Zambales, Benguet, Batanes and Babuyan Islands will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides during moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. Metro Manila and the rest of the country, meanwhile, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or […]
(Eagle News) — Four storms outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility are expected to enhance the southwest monsoon, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said. According to PAGASA, these weather disturbances are a tropical storm with international name “Lupit,” tropical storm with international name “Mirinae,” a tropical depression, and tropical storm “Nida.” The weather bureau said “Lupit” is so far located 580 kilometers northwest of Itbayat, Batanes; “Mirinae” at 1,080 km northeast of […]
