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Tropical storm battering Philippines leaves at least 24 people dead in flooding and landslides
Tropical storm battering Philippines leaves at least 24 people dead in flooding and landslides
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Typhoon Yinxing battered the northern Philippines with floods and landslides before blowing away from the country on Friday, leaving two airports damaged and aggravating a calamity caused by back-to-back storms that hit in recent weeks. There were no immediate reports of casualties from Yinxing, the 13th major storm to hit the disaster-prone Southeast Asian archipelago this year. The typhoon, locally called Marce, was last tracked over the South China Sea about 100 kilometers (62 miles) west of the northern Philippine province of Ilocos Norte with sustained winds of up to 150 kilometers (93 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 205 kph (127 mph), according to government forecasters.
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STORY: :: Eyewitness video shows violent winds battering a home as Typhoon Yinxing hits the Philippines:: Margarette Tomaneng Asuncion:: November 7, 2024:: Gonzaga, PhilippinesReuters was able to confirm the location by the bridge, road layout, trees and terrain seen in the videos which matched file and satellite imagery of the area. The date was verified by the reports of typhoon winds and rain in the area.Yinxing, with winds up to 175kph (109mph) and gusts up to 240kph (149mph), made landfall in the northern tip of Cagayan Province on Thursday. At least 17,000 people were evacuated to temporary shelters, while government agencies have stockpiled supplies and readied emergency response for the affected residents.Around 20 storms strike the Philippines each year on average, bringing heavy rains, strong winds, and deadly landslides.
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The catastrophic torrential rains that overflowed rivers and normally dry canals in eastern Spain last week triggered flash floods that submerged entire communities and killed scores of people. The deluge left behind a landscape of devastation, especially in Valencia, the hardest-hit region. The historic floods caused 219 deaths, 211 of them in the Valencia region alone.
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STORY: :: Mount Fuji gets its latest first snowfall in at least 130 years:: November 7, 2024:: Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan:: Mamoru Matsumoto, Japan Meteorological Agency's Kofu Weather Station:: "There is an overall trend that the observation of the first snowfall on Mount Fuji is getting later. However, the cause is not yet clearly understood, but one reason we can raise is that the temperature around the summit of Mount Fuji has been high since the autumn this year. // My main feeling is that I'm relieved to finally see the snow.":: "So when I first got here that day I saw no snow, I was like what, like it doesn't even look like Mount Fuji. But the next day we got, we ended up getting a little bit of snow and just, it's such a huge difference between no snow and snow."The Kofu Weather Station, which makes the annual official announcement, said its staff had visually confirmed some snow near the 12,388 ft summit of the country's tallest volcano on Thursday morning.While some snowfall was seen from the southern side of the mountain on Wednesday (November 6), clouds obscured the view of the peak, delaying official confirmation.The "first snowfall" on Mount Fuji is defined as when all or part of the mountain is covered with snow or "white-looking solid precipitation", and can be viewed from the Kofu observatory for the first time after summer.This year's official snowcap confirmation marks the latest since records began in 1894.
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