CEBU will experience cloudy skies with a high chance of thunderstorms this weekend. Mactan office of the state weather bureau Pagasa officer-in-charge Al Quiblat said that the weather in Cebu today until tomorrow will be partly cloudy…
BEIJING — At least 32 people were reported missing Thursday after rain-saturated hillsides collapsed onto villages in southeastern China following a typhoon. A rescue operation was underway in Sucun village in China’s Zhejiang province, south of the…
7 Luzon provinces under Typhoon Signal Number 1 Cebu will experience heavy rainshowers and thunderstorms in the next few days even as it is not in the path of Typhoon “Ferdie” (international name “Meranti”), the state weather…
THE public are encouraged to prepare their rain gear and umbrellas as the weather bureau forecasts cloudy weather this week. Meo Aguirre, Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration Visayas (Pag-asa Visayas) weather specialist, said yesterday that…
Tokyo — Surging flood water and mud brought by a devastating typhoon killed nine people in an elderly care home in northern Japan, officials said Wednesday, after the third storm in two weeks ripped through the country.…
TODAY, it will be sunny in Cebu in the morning but will turn cloudy and rainy in the afternoon as thousands of triathletes take to the roads and waters of Metro Cebu from dawn until noon for…
SUNNY to partly cloudy weather lies ahead for Cebu as typhoon “Butchoy” (international name Nepartak) is expected to leave the country tomorrow. Jomar Eclarino, weather specialist of the state weather bureau Pagasa, said Butchoy is headed to…
Tropical storm “Butchoy” entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) yesterday and intensified into a typhoon, bringing rains in Cebu that caused the temporary suspension of boat trips between mainland Cebu and Mactan Island. As of 4…
The chances of tropical storm “Butchoy” (international name: Nepartak) making landfall in the country appear to be slim, the state weather bureau Pagasa said yesterday. Pagasa Mactan chief Alfredo Quiblat Jr. said the storm is expected…
In September 2006, Rafaelita Pelaez invited me to Manila to attend the piano concert of her son Rudolf Golez at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP). Included with the plane ticket was a voucher to stay…
For 64-year-old pedicab driver Rogelio Palma Consalida, Nov. 8, 2013 is a date he will never forget for the rest of his life. It was when Supertyphoon Yolanda made landfall in his hometown of Tacloban City, Leyte…
The back-to-back typhoons “Nona” and “Onyok” left many parts of the archipelago flooded, lives lost, agriculture and livelihoods devastated and thousands stranded. The dire situation is a rehash of past calamities. More and stronger impacts of climate…
