Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Science & Tech. Shopping. Sports
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.
Pages in category "2012 Pacific typhoon season" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... 2012 Luzon southwest monsoon floods; B. Typhoon ...
Typhoon Kai-tak, known in the Philippines as Severe Tropical Storm Helen, was a mild tropical cyclone that affected China, Vietnam and Laos in mid August 2012. It was the seventh typhoon and the thirteenth named storm of the 2012 Pacific typhoon season. The storm killed 41 people and caused a sum of US$765 million in losses.
Taiwan shuttered offices, schools and tourist sites across the island on Wednesday ahead of a powerful typhoon that already worsened seasonal rains in the Philippines, killed at least 13 people ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 02:38, 24 December 2016: 1,984 × 1,424 (596 KB): Hiart {{Information |Description ={{en|1=Belt from Northern Luzon, the Philippines, brass wire, sheet metal, nail heads, Honolulu Museum of Art, accession 8366.1}} |Source ={{own}} |Author =Hiart |Date =photo 2016...