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Typhoon Haiyan death toll climbs to 1,200 in the Philippines

Conal Urquhart and agencies
Theguardian.com,
Sat, 09 Nov 2013 17:05 UTC
Typhoon Haiyan
© EUMETSAT
Super Typhoon Haiyan has battered the Philippines with ferocious winds of up to 320 km/h (199mph). Although not the most powerful storm to have ever formed in recorded history, it could be the strongest at the time of landfall.
The Philippines Red Cross said it has received reports of 1,200 deaths in two areas devastated by typhoon Haiyan.

The agency said that at least 1,000 had been killed in Tacloban and 200 in Samar province. The typhoon has passed over the Philippines and is expected to hit Vietnam later today. Communication and transports links have been disrupted by the storm making it difficult to assess damage and offer assistance.

Gwendolyn Pang, secretary general of the Philippine Red Cross, said the numbers came from preliminary reports by Red Cross teams in Tacloban and Samar, among the most devastated areas hit by typhoon Haiyan on Friday.

"An estimated more than 1,000 bodies were seen floating in Tacloban as reported by our Red Cross teams," she told Reuters. "In Samar, about 200 deaths. Validation is ongoing."

The death toll from typhoon Haiyan is expected to rise sharply as rescue workers reach areas cut off by the fast-moving storm, whose circumference eclipsed the whole country and which late on Saturday was heading for Vietnam.
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The most powerful typhoon in history: Nearly 720,000 forced to evacuate as 200mph winds spark landslides and destruction across the Philippines

Suzannah Hills
Daily Mail UK
Fri, 08 Nov 2013 08:28 UTC
The most intense typhoon on record continued to batter the Philippines today, killing three people and forcing almost 720,000 people to flee their homes. Super typhoon Haiyan smashed into coastal communities on the central island of Samar, 370 miles southeast of Manila, on Friday with maximum sustained winds of about 195 miles an hour and gusts of up to 235 miles per hour.

According to The U.S. Navy's Joint Typhoon Warning Center, which measures average wind speed accurate to every minute, that makes Haiyan more powerful than the 1969 Hurricane Camille, which battered Mississippi in the United States with winds of 190mph.


The Filipino government said the storm has claimed three victims after one person was electrocuted by damaged power lines and another was crushed by a falling tree. It is unclear how the third died but another man is missing after he fell off a jeti in the central port of Cebu. According to authorities the death toll is expected to rise, with emergency services unable to immediately contact the worst affected areas and Haiyan only expected to leave the Philippines this evening.

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Super typhoon Haiyan makes landfall in the Philippines

Doyle Rice
USA Today
Thu, 07 Nov 2013 17:29 UTC
Typhoon Haiyan
© Kit Recebido, epa
Filipino residents sleep on the floor at a gymnasium turned into an evacuation center in Sorsogon City, Bicol region, Philippines, on Nov. 7.
It is one of the most intense storms in world history.

Super Typhoon Haiyan made landfall early Friday morning in Guiuan, a small city in Samar province in the eastern Philippines.

It reached the fragile island chain as the most powerful typhoon or hurricane in recorded history, says meteorologist Jeff Masters of Weather Underground

Thousands of people evacuated villages in the central Philippines on Thursday Haiyan took aim the region, which was devastated by an earthquake last month.

Haiyan had intensified and accelerated as it moved closer to the country with sustained winds of 195 mph and gusts of 235 mph, according to the U.S. Navy's Joint Typhoon Warning Center.

No Atlantic or eastern Pacific hurricane has ever been stronger than Haiyan (typhoons are the same type of storms as hurricanes).

About 10 million people live on the central Philippine islands and are most at risk from a direct strike from Haiyan.
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Super Typhoon Haiyan, one of strongest storms ever, heads for central Philippines - 'significant loss of life' predicted

Jethro Mullen
CNN.com
Thu, 07 Nov 2013 13:36 UTC
Thousands of people in vulnerable areas of the Philippines are being relocated as one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever observed spins toward the country. With sustained winds of 315 kph (195 mph) and gusts as strong as 380 kph (235 mph), Super Typhoon Haiyan was churning across the Western Pacific toward the central Philippines.

Its wind strength makes it equivalent to an exceptionally strong Category 5 hurricane. The storm, known as Yolanda in the Philippines, is expected to still be a super typhoon, with winds in excess of 240 kph (149 mph), when it makes landfall Friday morning in the region of Eastern Visayas.

The storm is so large in diameter that clouds from it are affecting two-thirds of the country.

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Cloud Precipitation

Typhoon Krosa batters Luzon, targets Vietnam

Kristina Pydynowski
AccuWeather.com
Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:56 UTC
Typhoon Krosa is unleashing its fury on the Philippines' northern Luzon Island, then will begin its journey toward Vietnam on Friday. Typhoon Krosa will then spend Thursday night tracking along the far northern coast of Luzon. Damaging wind gusts in excess of 100 kph (60 mph) are expected across northern Luzon, well north of the capital city of Manila and other highly populated areas. The heaviest rainfall will also be north of Manila.

According to Accuweather.com Meteorologist Eric Wanenchak, "125-250 mm (5-10 inches) of rainfall is expected across northern Luzon through Friday as Krosa passes over the area from east to west." This amount of rainfall will produce flooding problems and potential mudslides.
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© NOAA
This satellite captured Krosa as it was making landfall on Luzon late Thursday.
Some rain associated with Krosa will also spread over eastern Taiwan through Friday, threatening to hinder earthquake cleanup efforts. While the interaction with Luzon will cause some weakening, Krosa will still be a typhoon when it reaches the South China Sea on Friday.

Krosa will then remain over open water through the weekend, tracking as if it is heading toward Hong Kong through Saturday before curving to the southwest away from mainland China by Sunday
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Monstrous Halloween storm to bring heavy rains and howling winds as it heads towards the U.S. East Coast


Daily Mail UK
Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:20 UTC
A monstrous Halloween storm will inflict torrential rains, howling winds and booming thunderstorms from Texas to the Midwest and as far as the Northeast, forecasters have predicted. It will mean wet and windy celebrations for trick-or-treaters across the U.S., with as many as 42 million people battling thunderstorms across cities including Nashville, Houston, Cincinnati and Indianapolis.
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The thunderstorms could be capable of dropping several inches of rain in just a few hours, sparking flash flooding from eastern Texas into the lower Mississippi Valley, Accuweather reported. High winds could also down trees and power lines across the eastern Great Lakes into the upper Ohio Valley into the Northeast, the Weather Channel warned.

Forecasters warned residents against going near downed power lines as they could be live and dangerous. 'Damaging winds and some tornadoes will be possible with what should be a complex and potentially messy storm,' the Storm Prediction Center predicted, USA Today reported.
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Snow leaves thousands without power in Russia

Robert
IceAgeNow.info
Sun, 27 Oct 2013 13:01 UTC
Nearly 17 thousand people were left without electricity in the Sakhalin region (Russia's Far East, a big island north of Japan) as a result of wet snow on the wires that disconnected the power lines. This was reported today by the Ministry of Emergencies. Power lines are currently under emergency repair work. (10-27-2013)
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Thanks to Argiris Diamantis for this link
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270,000 UK homes lose electricity amid St Jude storm


Agence France-Presse via Yahoo News
Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:03 UTC
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© AFP
Collapsed crane of the roof of the Cabinet office in London from high winds on October 28, 2013.
Travel chaos prevented thousands from reaching work across Britain on Monday and 270,000 homes were without electricity as the St Jude storm unleashed winds of almost 100 mph across swathes of the country.

A 17-year-old girl died after a tree fell onto the static caravan where she was sleeping in Hever, southeast England, and a man in his 50s died when a tree fell on his car in Watford, north of London, police said.

The rough conditions at sea forced rescuers to suspend the search for a 14-year-old boy who was washed out to sea from a beach in East Sussex on England's south coast on Sunday.

More than 450 people were stranded for several hours on two ferries outside the port of Dover after it was closed to sea traffic, as huge waves lashed the coastline on both sides of the Channel.

At least 100 trees fell across railway lines in the south east, Network Rail said.
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Cloud Precipitation

Britain awaits worst storm in five years

Sam Jones
The Guardian
Sun, 27 Oct 2013 11:17 UTC
St. Jude storm
© Craig Shepheard/Demotix/Corbis
Flooding in St Albans last week: the Met Office is predicting that 20-40mm of rain could fall overnight.
The worst storm in five years is forecast to hit England and Wales on Sunday night, bringing heavy rain, high winds and the threat of flooding and travel chaos.

Winds of more than 80mph could leave a trail of destruction across large parts of the UK, knocking down trees and causing major structural damage and power cuts.

The storm, named after St Jude - the patron saint of lost causes whose feast day is on Monday - will develop over the Atlantic and is expected to hit the south-west late on Sunday, before moving north-east across England and southern Wales.

David Cameron said he had spoken to the organisations responsible for public safety during the storm. The prime minister wrote on Twitter: "I've just chaired a call with various government departments and agencies to hear about all the plans to ensure people are protected from tonight's storm."

The weather system is expected to have moved out over the North Sea by Monday lunchtime, leaving strong breezes in its wake.

With the Met Office predicting that 20-40mm of rain could fall within six to nine hours overnight, insurance companies are advising households to protect themselves and their property.


Comment: The headline and article from The Guardian sounds a little alarmist. If 20-40 mm of rain within a six to nine hour period is a cause for flooding and major upset, then it is more a sign of a failing infrastructure than of a severe storm.
Or comparison, in Japan the other day 850 mm of rain fell within 24 hours:
Japan's shocking, deadly deluge from Typhoon Wipha: 33 inches of rain in 24 hours

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Cloud Precipitation

Hurricane Raymond strengthens off Mexico's Pacific coast


Agence France-Presse
Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:13 UTC
Hurricane Raymond picked up strength Monday as it churned off a region of Mexico's Pacific coast still recovering from a devastating storm last month. In just a few hours, Raymond went from a tropical storm to a Category Three hurricane on the five-point Saffir-Simpson scale, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC), which tracks hurricanes in the hemisphere, reported at 0900 GMT.
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© AFP
View of a flooded street in Acapulco, Guerrero state, Mexico, Sept 26, 2013
Raymond packed maximum sustained winds of 195 kph, with higher gusts. Hurricane force winds extend up to 30 kilometers out from the storm's center, while tropical force winds extend up to 110 kilometers. "Some additional strengthening is possible during the next day or so," the NHC warned.

Raymond however stalled some 265 kilometers west-southwest of the resort town of Acapulco after steadily moving for hours towards the mainland, the NHC said.
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