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The Malaysian Meteorological Department projected between five and seven major rainfall events during the 2024 annual monsoon season in Malaysia, which typically spans from November through March. Government officials anticipated that the 2024 floods could surpass the severity of the 2014-15 monsoon season , which resulted in twenty-one ...
MANILA (Reuters) -Philippine authorities moved thousands of residents in the capital, Manila, out of low-lying communities on Saturday as heavy monsoon rains, compounded by a tropical storm ...
The monsoon enhanced by Gaemi's impact on Luzon led to comparisons to 2009's Typhoon Ketsana, which was known locally as Tropical Storm Ondoy. [ 72 ] [ 73 ] [ 74 ] The oil tanker MT Terra Nova , carrying around 1.5 million liters of industrial fuel, capsized and sank in 34 m (112 ft) depth of water [ 75 ] in Manila Bay off the coast of Limay ...
Monsoons are large-scale sea breezes which occur when the temperature on land is significantly warmer or cooler than the temperature of the ocean. Most summer monsoons or southwest monsoons (Filipino: Habagat) have a dominant westerly component and a strong tendency to ascend and produce copious amounts of rain (because of the condensation of water vapor in the rising air).
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 ...
The East Asian monsoon is a monsoonal flow that carries moist air from the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean to East Asia. It affects approximately one-third of the global population, influencing the climate of Japan , the Korean Peninsula , Taiwan , China , the Philippines and Mainland Southeast Asia but most significantly Vietnam .
It was the second in a string of storms to affect the Philippines. November 5–8, 2024: Typhoon Yinxing (Marce) was the third in a string of six storms to affect the Philippines, making landfall in Santa Ana as a Category 4. Overall, damages stood at ₱192.73 million (US$3.91 million) and one person was left dead.
Typhoon Ewiniar, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Aghon, was a fairly strong tropical cyclone that impacted parts of the Philippines, particularly Luzon, in May 2024. The first named storm and typhoon of the annual typhoon season , Ewiniar emerged from an area of atmospheric convection 441 km (274 mi) southeast of Palau .