Even before storm Ondoy in 2009 and the southwest monsoon rains that submerged Metro Manila and some provinces in Luzon last week, flooding has already been a perennial disaster for the ...

In light of recent rainfall forecasts from the Department of Science and Technology - Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (DOST-PAGASA), the Department of ...

Two tropical cyclones outside the Philippine area of responsibility continue to enhance the southwest monsoon, bringing moderate to heavy rains over parts of Luzon, according to the Philippine ...

LEGAZPI CITY (PIA)—State volcanologists have warned Albay province of possible mudflows along the gulleys of Mayon Volcano as ...

A total of 3,009 barangays have been identified as highly susceptible to floods and rain-induced landslides due to the ...

Nearly 400,000 people have been affected across Bicol by the combined effects of the south-west monsoon (habagat) and ...

The Department of Education (DepEd) has denied that classes in elementary and high school levels in the country would again ...

WHEN I was a young professor several decades ago, a colleague and I found ourselves wading through near waist-deep floodwaters in Metro Manila after a heavy downpour. We were simply trying to get home ...

So intense was the rainfall brought by the enhanced southwest monsoon (“habagat”) in the past three days that it breached the average amount of rainfall for the entire ...

TWO TROPICAL cyclones in the Philippines were beginning to interact as they drew closer to each other, a weather phenomenon that could enhance the southwest monsoon and bring heavier rains, according ...

The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) announced Wednesday that tropical ...

The number of fatalities from the combined effects of the Southwest Monsoon (Habagat) and tropical cyclones Crising, Dante, ...