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TAGUIG MAYOR ORDERS EDUCATION CAMPAIGN OF NEW RAINFALL WARNING SYSTEM

Tuesday 28th of August 2012

TAGUIG CITY, August 28 (PIA) -- Taguig City Mayor Lani Cayetano has ordered a campaign to educate residents of the city on the new Rainfall Warning System (RWS) of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa). This developed as the city government acknowledged the continued threat of floods like the recent one caused by torrential southwest monsoon rains that submerged 18 of the city’s 28 barangays and displaced 14,000 residents. “A good grasp of the state weather bureau’s revised rainfall warning system is critical in assessing situations during heavy downpour and in getting cooperation fr...

OROQUIETA CITY, Misamis Occidental, July 20 (PIA) -- The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) of Misamis Occidental has warned all local DRRMCs in the province to remain alert against possible occurrence of flash floods. This, as the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) has issued General Flood Advisory No. 15 for Northern Mindanao, at 7 p.m., July 19, 2012. The whole country will experience mostly cloudy skies with...

CEBU, January 28 (PIA) – Central Visayas is now experiencing rainfall that is three times the normal level, says Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical, Astronomical Services Administration (PAG-ASA) weather specialist Oscar Tabada during the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Council (RDRRMC) meeting recently. Tabada said rainfall volume recorded in January 1-26, 2011 was at 353 millimeters, “three times higher than the 107.8 millimeters of rainfall in the same per...

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2011

Rain in Butuan to continue- PAG- ASA

BUTUAN CITY, Jan. 26 (PIA) – Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) this morning advised the public that the rainfall experienced by Butuan city since last night will continue PAGASA also released general flood advisory following scattered rainfalls here which started last night. According to the advisory released by PAG ASA this morning, as of 9:00 a.m., northeast monsoon prevailing over Luzon, easterlies affecting Mindanao. For the p...
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Jan

2011

PAGASA says moderate La Nina this summer

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Jan. 20 (PIA) -- The above normal rainfall observed in some areas of Visayas, Bicol Region and Mindanao during the months of October to December last year, is a clear manifestation of the impacts of the current La Niña event, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said. It added that most climate model forecasts maintain the possibility of the cold episode to last at least into the northern hemisphere spring season ...