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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.
The Philippines is archipelagic country in Southeast Asia, located in the northwest Pacific Ocean. It consists of 7,641 islands. The country is known to be "the most exposed country in the world to tropical storms", with about twenty tropical cyclones entering the Philippine area of responsibility each year.
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Pages in category "2012 disasters in the Philippines" ... 0–9. 2012 Luzon southwest monsoon floods; 2012 Samar earthquake; B. Typhoon Bopha; G. Typhoon Guchol (2012) H.
1200 UTC - The JMA upgraded Haikui to a typhoon, as it enhances the southwest monsoon, bringing heavy rainfall to the Philippines, just like Typhoon Saola 2 weeks prior. August 9. 0900 UTC - The JTWC made its final advisories on Kirogi. 1200 UTC - Kirogi weakens to a tropical storm as it starts to enter cool waters.
Typhoon Saola, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Gener, [1] [2] was a strong tropical cyclone affecting the Philippines, Taiwan and China in late July 2012. It was the ninth named storm and the fourth typhoon of the 2012 Pacific typhoon season. Saola is the name of a rare mammal found in Vietnam.
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