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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.
The typhoon brought damaging winds which killed 35 people and infrastructural losses of Php40.9 billion (US$907.9 million), making it one of the costliest typhoons in the Philippines. [ 14 ] September 26–27, 2011: Typhoon Nesat (Pedring) brought flash flooding over Central Luzon and Metro Manila .
"It is more dangerous now for those in landslide-prone areas because the ground has been saturated by the consecutive typhoons," Nepomuceno said, warning that storm surges could reach 3 metres (10 ...
A super typhoon ripped through Philippines’ largest island on Sunday, knocking down houses and sending more than half a million people to emergency shelters, as rare back-to-back storms cause ...
The Philippines faced six back to back typhoons in just 23 days last month, an unprecedented onslaught of storms that scientists say were fueled by unusually hot oceans and higher air humidity ...
Whenever a tropical cyclone forms inside or enters the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR), the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) commences the release of Tropical Cyclone Bulletins (TCB) to inform the general public of the cyclone's location, intensity, movement, circulation radius and its forecast track and intensity for at most 72 hours.
A devastating typhoon that tore through the Philippines, Taiwan and China last month, destroying infrastructure and leaving more than 100 people dead, was made significantly worse by human-induced ...
At the time, it was the strongest typhoon to strike the Philippines in 18 years. At least 110,000 people were left homeless, while nearly 3 million people were affected. November 2–3, 1988: Tropical Storm Tess (Welpring) affected Visayas, but mostly impacted Palawan. Flash flooding occurred over Calabarzon, Central Visayas and Western Visayas.