Miami — Tropical Storm Katia continues to gain strength as it moves west-northwest across the Atlantic. Katia (KAH’-tee-yah) has maximum sustained winds late Tuesday afternoon of 60 mph (97 kph), a 20 mph increase over Tuesday morning. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says continued strengthening is forecast and Katia could become a hurricane [...]
Signal number 3 has been raised over several provinces even as typhoon Mina (international name: NANMADOL) maintained its strength as it continued to move westward, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said.
Tropical Storm “Mina” on Wednesday slightly intensified while remaining stationary over Philippine Sea northeast of the archipelago. The storm is expected to enhance southwest monsoon to bring rain over Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, said the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa). “These areas will experience light to moderate rain,” forecaster Jun Galang [...]
MANILA, Philippines— Despite heavy rains that pounded the metropolis, fire broke out and continuously razed the gym in Camp Crame Tuesday morning, an officer from the Philippine National Police information office said. Police Officer 2 Larry Salazar said that a fire of still undetermined cause started at the police camp’s gym. “Our firefighters are in [...]
MANILA, Philippines—“Expect another rainy and cloudy week as another low pressure area is sighted in the Pacific on Wednesday, August 3. We call it Mina. If there are no changes, Mina could turn into a tropical depression and might enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility by Sunday, August 7.” Department of Science and Technology (DOST) [...]
MANILA, Philippines—Tropical storm “Juaning” (International name: NOCK-TEN) was forecast to make landfall over Polillo Island in Quezon province between 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Wednesday, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said Wednesday. In its latest weather bulletin issued at 5 a.m., Pagasa said that as of 4 a.m., Juaning was seen [...]
Legazpi City, Albay, Philippines—Floods reaching up to the rooftops killed nine people and forced thousands of residents to flee their homes in a two-day sweep through the Bicol provinces, relief officials said on Tuesday. The waters swallowed parts of Albay, Camarines Sur, Camarines Norte and Catanduanes provinces which were hardest hit by winds and rains [...]
Expect more heavy rains in the afternoon in Metro Manila and surrounding provinces as Tropical depression “Juaning” slows down and nears the coastlines of Isabela and Aurora, said Undersecretary Graciano Yumul of the Department of Science and Technology on Tuesday morning.
MANILA, Philippines—Approximately 16 percent of the population or 16 million Filipinos are carriers of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) which is considered a “silent infection” globally recognized as a very serious liver ailment. At Tuesday’s celebration of the World Hepatitis Day at the Hyatt Hotel, the Hepatology Society of the Philippines (HSP) encouraged everyone to [...]
The Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) has vowed to improve its class suspension protocol to include occasions of severe weather and flooding in areas not under storm warning signals, heeding complaints from students trapped in flooded streets around Metro Manila in last week’s monsoon rains. CHEd Executive Director Julito Vitriolo said the commission will tap [...]
LOS ANGELES— An asteroid the size of a tour bus streaked harmlessly past Earth on Monday, passing within 7,600 miles (12,230 kilometers). Discovered only last week, the relatively small space rock made a hairpin turn around the planet at about 10 a.m. PDT (1800 GMT), sailing high over the southern Atlantic Ocean. In truth, there [...]
Health officials have allayed fears of an outbreak of scarlet fever in the country following an epidemic in neighboring Hong Kong, saying the chances of an “international spread” was low at this time. The symptoms of scarlet fever are easily recognizable so spotting sick people, particularly travelers in airports, is also easy, according to Dr. [...]
MANILA, Philippines—Rain still has not let up since Thursday and floods were still being monitored by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority. In Malabon City, MMDA Metrobase communications equipment officer Cholo Tomas said that flood in Dampalit was waist-deep and knee-level on M.H. del Pilar. No vehicles could pass these areas as of 7 a.m. Tomas [...]
