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Typhoon Parma, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Pepeng, was the second-wettest typhoon to affect the Philippines, and the second typhoon to affect the country within the span of a week during September 2009.
Typhoon Melor, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Quedan, was a powerful typhoon that hit Japan in early October 2009, causing significant damage.As part of the 2009 Pacific typhoon season, Melor formed as a tropical depression on September 29 and rapidly intensified into a Category 4-equivalent typhoon just three days later.
The 2009 Pacific typhoon season was a below average season that spawned only 22 named storms, 13 typhoons, and five super typhoons. Despite this, it was a very deadly season, with the Philippines having experienced its deadliest season in decades due to the impact of typhoons Ketsana and Parma, while typhoon Morakot went on to become the deadliest storm to impact Taiwan in its modern history.
Typhoon Morakot, also known as Kiko, produced severe flooding in parts of the Philippines that left 26 people dead. In the Philippines, ten villages (Paudpod, San Juan, Batonloc, Carael, Tampo, Paco, San Miguel, Bining, Bangan, and Capayawan) have been submerged in 4-to-5-foot-deep (1.2 to 1.5 m) floods after the Pinatubo Dike overflowed. [34]
Fortune has an interesting story on the worst housing markets for 2009. 2008 was a brutal year across the country, but the experts predict that it will get a lot worse for quite a few cities over ...
Typhoon Chan-hom, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Emong, was an erratic tropical cyclone that hit the Philippines in early May 2009.The sixth tropical depression and the second tropical storm to develop during the 2009 Pacific typhoon season, Chan-hom developed out of an area of convectional cloudiness associated with an area of disturbed weather which originated from the remnants of ...
Word of the forecast spread around the world, with people overseas reporting on the tragedy-to-be -- but Californians remained disaster-free. LA Weekly spoke to a seismologist who says 9.8 wouldn ...
The Philippines is archipelagic country in Southeast Asia, located in the northwest Pacific Ocean. It consists of 7,641 islands. It consists of 7,641 islands. The country is known to be "the most exposed country in the world to tropical storms", with about twenty tropical cyclones entering the Philippine area of responsibility each year.