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The Manila Observatory is a non-profit research institute housed on the campus of the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Philippines. It was founded by the Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits, in 1865 as the Observatorio Meteorológico del Ateneo Municipal de Manila. It was later renamed Observatorio Meteorológico de Manila.
Formal meteorological and astronomical services in the Philippines began in 1865 with the establishment of the Observatorio Meteorológico de Manila (Manila Meteorological Observatory) in Padre Faura Street, Manila when Francisco Colina, a young Jesuit scholastic and professor at the Ateneo Municipal de Manila started a systematic observation and recording of the weather two or three times a day.
José María Algué, SJ (29 December 1856 – 27 May 1930), was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and meteorologist in the observatory of Manila.He invented the barocyclonometer, the nephoscope and a kind of microseismograph.
– Manila Observatory founded in the Philippines. [40] 1869 – Joseph Lockyer starts the scientific journal Nature. 1869 – The New York Meteorological Observatory opens, and begins to record wind, precipitation and temperature data. 1870 – The US Weather Bureau is founded. Data recorded in several Midwestern cities such as Chicago begins.
Established in 1954 and managed by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), the facility hosts the largest operational telescope in the Philippines. [1] The facility's observatory dome hosts a computer-based 45 cm (1.48 ft) Cassegrain reflector telescope [1] [2] installed at the site in May 2001 ...
This government organization was formed after a historical merging of official functions of government institutions. One of its first predecessors is the Philippine Weather Bureau created in 1901 [4] when meteorological, seismological and terrestrial magnetic services of the Manila Observatory were transferred from the Roman Catholic Church to the American Colonial Government.
Get the Manila, NCR local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
Typhoon Rita, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Kading, was the most powerful tropical cyclone during the 1978 Pacific typhoon season and one of the most intense tropical cyclones on record. A long-lived and destructive tropical cyclone, Rita began its journey east of the Marshall Islands and rapidly moved westwards, becoming a typhoon ...