A few days had passed since the arrival of Tropical Storm Sendong (International Name: Washi) which caused an unexpected deluge that cost the lives of already a 1000 residents of Cagayan De Oro and Iligan City in the Southern Island of Mindanao. Nothing paints a more graphic view of the devastation and aftermath than the pictures found in the Atlantic.
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The past few months have been terrible for the country of Thailand as their country was swamped with was is reported to be the worst flooding the country has experienced in 50 years. South East Asia was expecting large amounts of rain in 2011 after 2010’s El Nino since La Nina historically always follows afterwards, what we didn’t expect was this huge amount of rainfall lasting a long enough time to engulf an entire country underwater.
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Philippine Marine Biologists who have been studying the effect of the warming sea temperatures on the coral reefs of the Philippines for the past 2 years raised the alarm that they have detected abnormal rises in coastal temperatures in some areas that are affecting our coral reefs.
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We’ve often wanted to write an article on Global Warming for this site, that gives a summary on what Global Warming and Climate Change is all about, but never found the time to do so. That unfinished article just ended up gathering dust in the draft’s portion of the site, along with some other articles unlucky enough to have not garnered our attention.
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Summer is the time when kids are out of school and have a lot of time on their hands. Some families invest in summer schools for their kids, to keep them busy and occupied during the summer. I was one such kid, as my father never wanted us idle during the summer, so he had us attend such classes as drawing, speech, speed reading and even short hand writing.
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According to the Philippine Weather Bureau (PAGASA) today was the hottest day so far in 2009 with temperatures peaking at 35.3′C at 2PM. Well the sad news is that the Philippine summer isn’t even half way through yet so we could still expect more of the higher temperatures days in the coming weeks.
PAGASA had already released some safety tips for the public in anticipation of the summer climate. Along with that came the dire prediction that temperatures could reach 40′C.
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