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The met department has sounded alarm for the West coast of India on the Gujarat, Mumbai, and Goa regions. The depression is located around 400 kilometers off Goa and is likely to hit the coast by Thursday – heavy rains are forecast with wind speeds...
Tags: cyclone, arabian sea, bay of bengal, fishermen, Mumbai terror attack of 26/11, Tropical storms
Ida has become a tropical storm again, with top winds of 45 mph (72 kph), as it swirls in the Caribbean on a track that could bring it to the U.S...Ida came ashore in Nicaragua as a hurricane Thursday before weakening and dumping rain on Central America.
Tags: tropical storms, Grand Cayman Island, Southwest Florida, Central Florida, U.S. National Hurricane Center, Nicaragua
Hurricane Ida slammed into Nicaragua's Caribbean coast on Thursday after dumping heavy rain on little-developed offshore islands where hundreds of people were evacuated from flimsy homes. At 10 a.m. EST (1500 GMT) Ida was located about 75 miles north...
Tags: U.S. Nicaragua, hurricanes ida, Honduras, ida drenches, tropical storms, Warm Caribbean, tropical depression, Central America
The victims drowned in floods in Laguna province just south of Manila, the capital, the local disaster monitoring office said on Saturday. In Laguna, military and police rescue boats worked to save people who were trapped on rooftops by a flashflood,...
Tags: Philippines, Manila, Typhoon Mirinae, deadly storms, tropical storms, Vietnam
Philippines�President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Saturday ordered Public Works Secretary Victor Domingo to start sandbagging localities around Laguna de Bay that were flooded as Typhoon Santi (international codename: Mirinae) has barreled through southern...
Tags: Philippines�The Department of Education, Metro Manila, Manila Electric Co., Typhoon Santi, Typhoon Mirinae, tropical storms, Luzon, House of Representatives, hit philippines, international codename
Philippines�For almost 10 days, Typhoon "Ramil" has been surprising meteorologists with its every move. "It's abnormal, very erratic," Nathaniel Cruz, deputy administrator of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration...
Tags: Philippines, tropical storms
Guam was under a tropical storm watch last night as Tropical Depression 22W approached the Marianas. The system is expected to pass south of the island tonight and could become a tropical storm today, according to the National Weather Service. As of...
Tags: Guam, National Weather Service, Marianas, depression 22w, tropical disturbance, moving west, tropical storms, pass south
Countries vulnerable to the harsh effects of climate change like the Philippines need to build and plan for disasters as the weather events become �more extreme� and �more intense,� United Nations Undersecretary General John Holmes said Tuesday. But in...
Tags: UN Philippines, John Holmes, climate change, emergency relief, Parma, death toll, relief coordinator, humanitarian affairs, Metro Manila, tropical storms
Officials are looking into reports that relief goods re-packed in Malaca�ang and transported by trucks to disaster-stricken areas in Metro Manila are now being raffled off to flood victims. ``I'll have to find out how true the reports are,'' Executive...
President Gloria Arroyo has ordered agriculture officials to import rice amid an expected supply crunch next year following devastating typhoons that battered the agriculture sector. Typhoon Parma, which hit northern Luzon island Saturday, leaving at...
Tags: tropical storms