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Super Typhoon Goni Now The Strongest Cyclone To Make Landfall Since 2013’s Haiyan

Photo Credit: weather.com Super Typhoon Goni made landfall with sustained winds of 195 mph in the eastern Phillippines early Sunday. This makes Goni the strongest typhoon to make landfall anywhere on earth since 2013’s Super Typhoon Haiyan, which also made…

Flash floods, landslides displace 2,000 residents in Cagayan, Philippines

MORE than 2,000 residents have been evacuated in 30 barangay (villages) in three northern Cagayan towns, with a 60-year-old male farmer missing and believed to have drowned during widespread flooding brought about by heavy downpours Maj. Stanley Banan, Sanchez Mira…

Landslide forces residents to evacuate as wild weather lashes Sydney, Australia

Sydney has been plunged into chaos after severe weather swept through the state, causing flash flooding and triggering a landslide at a remote walking trail in the city’s north. Aerial footage shows the land spill at the Mackerel trail near…

Man dead, daughter missing after landslide in St Andrew, Jamaica

A frantic search is underway for a teenage girl who is believed to be trapped under the rubble of her house which crumbled this morning in Shooters Hill, St Andrew in Jamaica amid heavy rainfall. Her father, who residents only…

Floods, landslides affect 3.6M people in E. Africa

At least 3.6 million people were affected by floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains across East Africa since June, the UN humanitarian agency said in a report Saturday. “Water levels of several lakes in Kenya and Uganda are rising,…