Philippines, Typhoon Kalmaegi
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Typhoon Uwan lashes the Philippines with 230 km/h winds as terrifying videos show massive floods, storm surges, and widespread destruction across Luzon.
Kalmaegi was a typhoon in the Philippine Sea Monday afternoon Philippine Time, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center said in its latest advisory. Flash flooding can occur well inland and away from the storm’s center. Even weaker storms can produce excessive rainfall that can flood low-lying areas.
Typhoon Kalmaegi made landfall in the Philippines on Tuesday last week, leaving hundreds of people dead or missing.
Scientific institutions in China and Japan plan to collaborate on typhoon observations and research, as warming temperatures threaten to make the powerful storms more destructive.
Less than a week after being hit by the worst typhoon in decades, Japan was bracing on Thursday for a secondary disaster. Heavy rain was forecast to hit already-inundated areas in the coming days. Officials said additional precipitation could destabilize ...
Satellite image on Tuesday shows Typhoon Nangka nearing Japan (center) and Typhoon Halola (right) approaching Wake Island. Image: tropic.ssec.wisc.edu LOLA wave height forecast for Thursday morning. Latest forecast from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Typhoon Haishen battered Japan's southern mainland with powerful winds and drenching rain, cutting power to tens of thousands of homes and prompting authorities to call for some 1.8 million people to evacuate. Haishen was drawing closer ...
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Native Alaska villages were already on the frontlines of climate change. Then a typhoon hit.
A week after Typhoon Halong passed through Japan in early October, its remnants crossed the Pacific and struck western Alaska. Nearly 50 Alaska Native communities across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta near the Bering Sea were met with towering wind speeds,