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by Camille CAMDESSUS HURON, United States (AFP) — Crushed by a devastating drought and new water restrictions, Daniel Hartwig had no choice but to pull thousands of precious, fragrant almond trees from his California farm. “It breaks your heart,” he sighed as he surveyed the once vibrant landscape before him — curled, yellowed leaves covering the shrunken husks that would have been this year’s crop of almonds, had the water arrived. Their exposed roots are […]
(Eagle News) — Monsoon rains will prevail in the Philippines today, Aug. 5. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, Apayao, Abra, Batanes and Babuyan Islands will experience those conditions as the southwest monsoon continues to affect the country. Flash floods or landslides during scattered to widespread moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. Metro Manila, the rest of Ilocos Region, rest of Cordillera Administrative Region, the rest […]
KAWAGOE, Japan (AFP) — The Tokyo Olympics women’s golf tournament could be cut to 54 holes, organizers said Wednesday, because of an approaching tropical storm due to hit Kasumigaseki Country Club at the weekend. “We have notified the players that we may have to be forced to reduce to a 54-hole competition,” International Golf Federation official Heather Daly-Donofrio told a media briefing at the course in Saitama prefecture on Wednesday evening. “We will not change […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) –Several lightning bolts hit a Bangladesh wedding party within a few seconds Wednesday, killing 16 people and injuring the groom, officials said. The group had just left a boat at the riverside town of Shibganj to take shelter from the thunderstorm when the lightning struck, a government administrator for the town said. The bride was not with the wedding party, Sakib Al-Rabby told AFP, confirming 16 people died as several bolts struck […]
(Eagle News) — The low pressure area spotted off Batanes has developed into a tropical depression. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said TD “Gorio,” as it is now called, was so far located 550 kilometers northeast of Itbayat. The weather bureau said it would issue a weather bulletin at 11 a.m. for the tropical depression. Earlier, PAGASA said it was monitoring another tropical depression, this time, outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility. […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is monitoring a low pressure area northeast of Itbayat, Batanes. The weather bureau said this was apart from the tropical depression it was monitoring west of extreme Northern Luzon, outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility. PAGASA said Ilocos Region, Batanes, Babuyan Islands, Abra, Apayao, Benguet, Zambales, and Bataan will have monsoon rains as the southwest monsoon continues to affect the Philippines. Flash floods or […]
KOLKATA, India (AFP) — At least 16 people have been killed and a quarter of a million people displaced from their homes after heavy monsoon rains lashed eastern India, officials said Tuesday, as the air force joined rescue efforts. The latest deaths in West Bengal came a few days after 11 people were also killed in the state as the torrent of water swept away homes and triggered landslides. Flooding and landslides are common during […]
(Eagle News) — The southwest monsoon is still affecting the Philippines. As a result, the Philippine Atmospheric and Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Ilocos Region, Batanes, Babuyan Group of Islands, Abra, Apayao, Benguet, Zambales, and Bataan will experience monsoon rains. Flash floods or landslides during scattered to widespread moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. Tarlac, Pampanga, Bulacan, Occidental Mindoro, and the rest of Cordillera Administrative Region and Cagayan Valley, meanwhile, will have […]
by Beiyi SEOW BEIJING, China (AFP) — The death toll from floods in central China last month is at least 302 with dozens of people still missing, officials said Monday, after record downpours dumped a year’s worth of rain on a city in just three days. Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province and the epicentre of the record flooding, was hardest hit with 292 people dead and 47 missing, the local government said at a […]
(Eagle News) –Monsoon rains are still expected in parts of the Philippines. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Ilocos Region, Batanes, Babuyan Group of Islands, Abra, and Apayao, in particular, will experience those conditions. Flash floods or landslides during scattered to widespread moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. Zambales, Bataan, Tarlac, Pampanga, Bulacan, Occidental Mindoro, and the rest of Cordillera Administrative Region and Cagayan Valley, meanwhile, will have occasional rains. […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is monitoring a tropical depression outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility. According to PAGASA, the weather disturbance was so far located 2195 kilometers east northeast of extreme Northern Luzon. It is packing maximum sustained winds of 45 kph near the center, and a gustiness of up to 55 kph. It is moving northwest at 25 kph. According to the weather bureau, Ilocos Region, Cordillera […]
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AFP) — Monsoon floods and landslides have cut off more than 300,000 people in villages across southeast Bangladesh and killed at least 20 people including six Rohingya refugees, officials said Friday. The region along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border where nearly one million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are in camps has been battered by torrential rain since Monday. “The floods have stranded some 306,000 people in Cox’s Bazar district. At least 70 villages have […]
