Situation Overview The typhoon, known locally as Typhoon Karding, strengthened rapidly from Saturday to Sunday, arriving as a super typhoon with maximum sustained winds of 240 kilometers per hour (about 150 miles per hour). Super Typhoon Karding made landfall on Burdeos, Quezon on Sunday afternoon, September 25, with maximum sustained winds of 195 km/h and...
Category: Bicol Region
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Typhoon Karding (I.N. Noru) Situation Report #1 September 25, 2022 5 PM
Situation Overview On September 22, The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAG-ASA) issued the first weather bulletin regarding Super Typhoon ‘NORU’. It was a low-pressure area spotted in the East of Central Luzon that turned into a tropical depression. It was named “Karding” with an international name “Noru”. At around 2:00 pm it...
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Mount Bulusan Eruption Situation Report #1 June 06, 2022 11:00 am
Situation Overview The restive Mount Bulusan had been under alert level 0 (normal) for more than eight months until its explosion yesterday, June 5 at around 10:30 am in the morning. Several portions of Sorsogon Province were covered in ash after Bulusan’s phreatic or steam-driven eruption with steam-rich gray plumes rising about a kilometer and...
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Delivering hope to Typhoon-affected farmers in Bicol
Bicol, Philippines – Maritess is a svelte, stout woman in her golden years. For years, she is the leader of “Samahan ng mga Kababaihang Magsasaka ng Concepcion Grande” in Naga, Camarines Sur. She never lost her assertiveness even in interviews. Maritess is a poor farmer from Naga, Camarines Sur in the Bicol Region, a region...