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The 2012 Luzon southwest monsoon floods (informally known in Tagalog as Hagupít ng Habagat, "wrath of the monsoon" and Bagsík ng Habagat, "fierceness of the monsoon", from habagat, the Filipino term for the southwest monsoon), was an eight-day period of torrential rain and thunderstorms in Luzon in the Philippines from August 1 to August 8, 2012.
July 28–31, 2012: Typhoon Saola (Gener) and its outer rain bands helped enhance the southwest monsoon which brought torrential rainfall and widespread flooding over much of the country. 54 people died while damage from the storm amounted to ₱728 million (US$17.3 million), more than half of them was due to agricultural losses.
The Philippines is a Typhoon (Tropical Cyclone)-prone country, with approximately 20 Tropical Cyclones entering its area of responsibility per year. Locally known generally as bagyo (), [3] typhoons regularly form in the Philippine Sea and less regularly, in the South China Sea, with the months of June to September being the most active, August being the month with the most activity.
Traversing the mountains of Luzon weakened Mangkhut before it emerged over the South China Sea on September 15. The typhoon subsequently made landfall again on the Taishan coast of Jiangmen , Guangdong , China , at 5 p.m. Beijing Time (09:00 UTC) on September 16, with two-minute sustained winds of 45 m/s (160 km/h) according to China ...
At the end of November 2014, ... 2012 Luzon southwest monsoon floods; ... The May 2010 Tennessee floods were 1,000-year [77] ...
Part of the 2012 Pacific typhoon season Typhoon Tembin , known in the Philippines as Typhoon Igme , was an intense tropical cyclone in the Western Pacific Ocean that had an unusual trajectory, approaching Taiwan twice.
2012 Luzon southwest monsoon floods; 2016 Philippine southwest monsoon floods; P. 2022–2023 Philippine floods; V. 2017 Visayas and Mindanao floods
Am ('Tropical monsoon') at 45%, is the most of northern Cebu and Bantayan. This type of climate results from the monsoon winds which change direction according to the seasons. This climate has a driest month with rainfall less than 60 millimetres (2.4 in) but more than 1/25 the total annual precipitation.