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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).
Doksuri carried expansive rain bands as it approached the Philippines, exacerbating the existing southwest monsoon and causing widespread rains and floods over most of the country. [22] [96] As early as July 23, rain from the storm triggered floods in Pampanga. [42] Nine out of the Philippines' seventeen regions were hit with heavy rain and ...
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.
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 ...
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 .
August position of the ITCZ and monsoon trough in the Pacific Ocean, depicted by area of convergent streamlines in the northern Pacific. The monsoon trough is a portion of the Intertropical Convergence Zone in the Western Pacific, [1] [2] as depicted by a line on a weather map showing the locations of minimum sea level pressure, [1] and as such, is a convergence zone between the wind patterns ...