Weather TALK [forecasts, etc]

[Monseratto]

[NightRock]

^nope gagawin nilang kabaong yan para mapreserve yun katawan

wala ding silbi wala naman power sa kanila ngayon

[Retz]

Giporlos, Eastern Samar in ruins after Yolanda

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w56BvKtvWx4]Giporlos, Eastern Samar in ruins after Yolanda - YouTube[/ame]

Interview of Mark Biong Mayor of Goporlos, Eastern Samar by Rappler. Maging matibay. Waray-Waray gud kita! Waray la ini. Pagsubok la ini ha aton han Mahal na Diyos. Tibayan la naton ngan huwag mawaraan hin buot. Magkaroon po tayo ng disiplina. Maging matibay at huwag kalimutan ang nasa itaas.

[Retz]

oops. double post.

[macsd]

95% of Tacloban devastated?

MANILA -- President Benigno Aquino III on Sunday walked out of a disaster council meeting in Tacloban out of frustration.

Sa dinami-dami ng mga bangkay na nakakalat sa kalye in Tacloban, bakit hindi pa si Abnoy ang isa doon???

As for the looters, why were they left behind by Yolanda ???

Senate should investigate why there is a natural calamity para magkaroon sila ng SILBI kahit paano.

[chrismarte]

[falken]

Another storm is brewing and is expected to take the same route as Yolanda.

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[badkuk]

Baka napikon siya dun sa suggestion to declare martial law. i think that "businessman" should have chosen his words better. Granted looting, robbery, killing, etc. is running rampant in Tacloban, that can be solved by troop deployment, etc. Baka akala niya martial law = troop deployment. imho martial law is a whole other mess. It means everybody's rights -- including us here in MM who weren't hit by the typhoon -- get their rights thrown out the window. It means the Senate/Congress become impotent(not that they're doing any good with the power they currently have).

btw, this has got to be a first:

Imelda nephew congressman to P-Noy: Declare national calamity after 'Yolanda' destruction By: Lira Dalangin-Fernandez, InterAksyon.com November 10, 2013 12:11 PM

You'd think people would stop politicking at times like these

[Monseratto]

Expect the storms to get more powerful and deadlier...

Just hope they don't find their way to Manila.

Typhoon Haiyan the biggest yet as world's tropical storms gather force | World news | theguardian.com

Typhoon Haiyan the biggest yet as world's tropical storms gather force
John Vidal, environment editor
Friday 8 November 2013 20.15 GMT

When typhoon Haiyan - known in the Philippines as Yolanda - pounded into the islands of Samar and Leyte at 4.40am after picking up speed on a 900-mile track across the Pacific, the US navy's warning centre, JTWC, in Honolulu, calculated its winds to be gusting at up to 235mph (380kph).

This would make it the fourth most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded and possibly the strongest to have ever hit land. By comparison, St Jude, the storm that hit in southern England last month, had winds gusting to 99mph.

As Filipino communities calculated the flood and wind damage done in the 25-mile-wide path of the storm, meteorologists questioned claims that Haiyan was the strongest ever to make landfall. "All we can say at this stage is maybe. The estimates of wind strength and central pressure are just that – estimates – albeit from well-attested satellite techniques developed over decades. Without ground observations right in the centre of the track we can never be totally sure," said Julian Heming, tropical prediction scientist at the Met Office.

Haiyan is the third Category 5 "super typhoon" to hit the Philippines since 2010. "In 2010 Megi peaked at 180mph winds but killed only 35 people, and did $276m in damage. But Bopha, which hit the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on 3 December, 2012 , left 1,901 people dead and was the costliest natural disaster in Philippines history at the time," said Jeff Masters, director of meteorology at US-based Weather Underground in his daily blog.

According to the Philippine government, the area's typhoons have been getting stronger. "Menacingly, the Filipino typhoons are getting stronger and stronger, especially since the 90s," said Romulo Virola, head of the government's national statistics board. "From 1947 to 1960, the strongest typhoon to hit us was Amy in December 1951 with a highest wind speed recorded at 240kph in Cebu. From 1961 to 1980, Sening was the record holder with a highest wind speed of 275kph in October 1970. During the next 20 years, the highest wind speed was recorded by Anding and Rosing at 260kph. In the current millennium, the highest wind speed has soared to 320kph recorded by Reming in Nov-Dec 2006. If this is due to climate change, we better be prepared for even stronger ones in the future."

The steady warming of the oceans is likely to lead to fewer but stronger tropical typhoons, said scientists from the intergovernmental panel on climate change in a special report on climate extremes this year. "The average tropical cyclone maximum wind speed is likely to increase, but the global frequency of tropical cyclones is likely to decrease or remain unchanged," it said.

A record seven typhoons developed across the west Pacific during October, beating beat the previous record of six in 1989. Nearly one-third of the world's tropical storms form within the western Pacific and many track due west to the Philippines archipelago, the first major landmass they meet. In a normal season, only three or four typhoons develop.

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Aerial Photos of the devastation in Guiuan, Eastern Samar - the site of Yolanda's first landfall. Photo Credits: AFP, Central Command