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Typhoon Malakas Strikes Japan as a Category-3 Storm

Less than a week after Super Typhoon Meranti barreled down on East Asia, another storm spun into the region. At 1:35 p.m. local time (04:35 Universal Time) on September 19, 2016, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua…

Record Rainfall With More Monster Rain On The Way For Australia

THE biggest September rainfall in a century has drowned Victoria while South Australia has copped a monster drenching as wild weather lashes Australia.   A series of cold fronts combined with warmer than average ocean conditions have produced higher than…

Typhoon Gener intensifies as it moves toward northern boundary of PAR

The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) on Saturday warned that Typhoon Gener (international name: Malakas) has intensified further as it moved toward the northern boundary of the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR).   In a severe weather…

China on yellow alert for Typhoon Malakas

CHINA’S meteorological authority issued a yellow alert for Typhoon Malakas on Saturday, forecasting strong winds and heavy rain.   Malakas, the 16th typhoon in 2016, was observed 135 kilometers off Taiwan’s east coast at 10 a.m. Saturday, bringing winds of…

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