Posts Tagged ‘Asia/Pacific’

Tropical low pressure centered off the east of the Philippines as of Thursday could become a named tropical storm during the late week. Localized flooding will accompany the system’s path through the Philippines region, even if the weather system fails to develop. Formation of a tropical storm would imply potentially damaging winds.

Sensors on the seafloor off eastern Japan have measured movement of up to 24 meters, or 79 feet, following the devastating magnitude 9.0 great quake of March 11. A seabed sensor, located near the quake epicenter about 130 km, or 81 miles, east of the Port of Sendai, measured a shift of 24 meters toward [...]

In what should be one of the hottest, driest times of the year, rainfall totals of more than 50 inches within little more than a week have left swaths of southern Thailand under water. Nearly 1 million people have now been impacted by the recent flooding. At least 25 people have been killed in the [...]

Cold and wet weather will spread a damp chill over the quake- and tsunami-stricken northeast of Japan Tuesday into Wednesday. A storm headed eastward south of Tokyo will spread rain northward from the nation’s capital into the disaster area. Over the hills and mountains, snow will fall, and as temperatures fall Tuesday night, snow may [...]

PARIS—Experts monitoring weather patterns for any fallout from Japan’s stricken nuclear plant said Tuesday the winds had so far been favorable but they were less confident about the outlook later this week. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said winds on Saturday and Monday – when two blasts occurred at Fukushima – were blowing to the [...]

A severe Pacific storm has abated after having lashed western British Columbia with high winds, slashing rain and mountain snow Wednesday into Wednesday night. During the height of the storm, there were reportedly 55,000 BC Hydro electric customers without power, owing to downed trees and lines. Ferry service on seven routes was halted.

The cyclone that thrashed a still-soggy Queensland yesterday has re-energized an ongoing debate Down Under over what Australia can expect from a warmer planet and what the nation – the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide per capita – should do about it. Front and center in the fray is Ross Garnaut, the government’s climate [...]

BUTUAN CITY,PHILIPPINES (MindaNews/06 January) – Seventeen of the 25 persons nationwide who died from drowning or landslides brought about by flash floods spawned by heavy rains since Sunday were from Mindanao, the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council reported in its 6 a.m. January 6 update. A total of 467,916 persons in 586 barangays were [...]

Losses are still being assessed off the eastern Mediterranean Sea in the aftermath of a severe weekend storm that struck from Egypt to Turkey and beyond. The storm unleashed damaging winds, widespread blowing dust, torrential rain and even heavy snow. In Egypt, which was hit by blinding dust storms and torrential rain, the death toll [...]

Typhoon Chaba strengthened to a Category 3 Storm over the Pacific Ocean south of Okinawa and is forecast to gain power as it approaches the Japanese island tomorrow, the U.S. Navy Joint Typhoon Warning Center said. Chaba, the 16th storm of the northwestern Pacific season, was about 500 kilometers (310 miles) south of Naha, Okinawa [...]