Cloudy, rainy up North
By DJ Yap
The tail-end of a cold front is prevailing over extreme northern Luzon, bringing cloudy skies and rains over the Batanes and Calayan islands and the province of Cagayan, the weather bureau said Saturday.
The tail-end of a cold front is prevailing over extreme northern Luzon, bringing cloudy skies and rains over the Batanes and Calayan islands and the province of Cagayan, the weather bureau said Saturday.
Predicting the arrival of a storm is no easy task even for meteorologists.
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck the Batan Islands region (Batanes) in the northern Philippines in the early hours of Thursday, according to the US Geological Survey.
The first thing that Rhoupheline Aya Cadiz wants to do after topping the architecture board this year is to broaden her knowledge so she could return to her native Batanes and give back.
After going head to head with the Aquino administration over the reproductive health measure, the country’s Catholic bishops are taking issue with the government on another one of their obsessions.
Residents here are not starving due to a food shortage, contrary to the impression generated by an appeal made by their church leader this week.
A Catholic prelate in Batanes on Friday sought the help of the government and the social arm of the Church amid shortage of food supply and diesel on the island.
All public storm signals were lowered Tuesday, except in the country’s northernmost islands, as Typhoon Igme continued moving slowly northward, the state weather bureau said.
Tropical Storm Gener maintained its slow course out of the Philippines on Wednesday, heading slowly toward Taiwan and Japan’s Ryukyu Islands even as the storm-induced southwest monsoon continued dumping rain over Luzon and Western Visayas, the state weather bureau said.
Public storm signal No. 1 was raised on Saturday over Isabela and Cagayan provinces, including Batanes, Calayan and the Babuyan Group of Islands, as a low pressure area east of Virac, Catanduanes, intensified into a tropical storm.
When Maria Zita Adami, 42, puts on a “vakul,” the traditional headgear of the Ivatan women, and arranges the strap of the “yuvok” (native basket) over her forehead, her face seems to beam with pride.
Honesty has been operating a rustic coffee shop here for 17 years now. When customers enter the Honesty Coffee Shop, they will never encounter anyone manning the place. They help themselves to a cup of coffee or a bottle of cola, or can munch on biscuits, fried bananas and sweet potatoes that have been prepared and laid out for them at the counter.
A shallow, tectonic magnitude-4.8 earthquake rocked the northern province of Batanes Sunday afternoon, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said.
