Westernpacificweather.com - Manila Floods, Haikui is over & Kirogi suprises Hokkiodo and Invest 93W

Manila Floods, Haikui is over & Kirogi suprises Hokkiodo and Invest 93W

Published on August 10, 2012 by robspeta in Daily Updates, Tropicals, Video Update

Nearly 90% of Metro Manila is under water today as flooding rains continue to drown the city with over a Meter of rainfall in the past week alone. This has resulted in over 60 Deaths 10 injuries and many with out power or having to suffer with there homes being damaged due to flood waters or landslides.

The La Mesa Dam has overflowed its top due to the excessive amounts of rain as well, this in return has also caused increase flooding in the area, but the good news is the intense rains should slow in the coming days, sadly though the rainy season is still on going and then we haft to contend with the possible development of a tropical system to the east of the Philippines at this time.

These record breaking rainfalls have been compared to Ketsana (Ondoy) from 2009 but in many ways these rains remain more dangerous due to there constancy and since they are not associated with a named system the warning for the rains was put out unnoticed by many until the situation got severe.

Meanwhile Haikui has weakened over China and at much relief to the area. Over 500 flights were cancelled this week in Shanghai and flooding continues to be of concern.

While a surprising storm Kirogi hit Hokkaido today packing gusty winds and rough seas, this storm was downgraded to a remnant low before making landfall but it still was packing the punch of a tropical storm as it moved in to Extreme Northern Japan.