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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.
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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.
The flood waters and the extremely powerful wind gusts of the storm caused 14,474 houses to be partly or seriously damaged; Manila reported gusts of up to 93 mph (150 km/h). Super Typhoon Rita was the worst typhoon to strike the Philippines in 8 years since Super Typhoon Joan in 1970 .
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How To Watch Fox Weather. Local reports said that several earthquakes with magnitudes up to 3.7 were detected, likely caused by the movement of magma within the volcano.
In 1935, the signal system was revised as agreed between the Observatory and the Central Weather Bureau of Manila. In the revised system, Signals No. 2–4 were not used in Hong Kong, while Signal No. 9 was not used in Manila. The last typhoon bomb was set off in September 1937 during the passage of an intense typhoon. [3]