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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.
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 and donated by the Japanese government through a cultural aid grant. [3] Before this period, the observatory used a 30 cm (0.98 ft) reflector-type telescope. [1]
Typhoon Gordon, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Goring, was a powerful tropical cyclone that caused widespread damage and loss of life in the Philippines and Southern China in July 1989.
The China Meteorological Administration (CMA) issued a red typhoon warning; [25] heavy rainfall is anticipated across the provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi, as well as Hong Kong and Macau; the heaviest rainfall of 10–18 cm (3.9–7.1 in) is likely in the southwest of Guangdong Province.
Because Typhoon Vera posed a threat to Southern China, 36 bulletins were issued by the Hong Kong Royal Observatory. A Typhoon signal No. 3 was also issued. After passing south of the area, a peak windspeed of 115 km/h (70 mph) was measured at Tate's Cairn. [28] In addition, the storm generated showers and squally weather in the region.