Posted on 09/25/2022 6:18:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Philippines’ sprawling capital went into lockdown on Sunday as a super typhoon tore across the main island of Luzon, bringing hurricane-force winds and dumping heavy rain bound to cause deadly storm surges and landslides.
Noru – known locally as Karding – made its first landfall at around 5.30pm in Burdeos town on Polillo island, 100km east of Manila, with 195kmh winds, equivalent to a Category 3 hurricane.
Noru – the 11th and strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines so far in 2022 – slightly weakened as it made landfall again at around 8.20pm in Dingalan town, in Aurora province on the eastern part of Luzon.
It then tore through Luzon overnight, dumping torrential rain on Metro Manila, a metropolis of 16 cities. Luzon is home to half the Philippines’ population of some 110 million.
Images on social media showed tree trunks and other debris littered along roads at a town in Polillo island hit early in the day as Noru made its way towards land.
“Coconut trees were swaying while banana plants were brought down,” Polillo mayor Angelique Bosque told radio station DZRH.
Many areas in central Luzon were placed on the highest typhoon alert level of five. In Metro Manila, it was at four.
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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr ordered all schools and offices in Metro Manila and seven other regions to shut from Monday.
Evacuations were ordered in districts along coastlines, rivers and low-lying areas. Millions more living along Noru’s path were told to shelter at home. Flood alerts were issued in key cities in Metro Manila that lie along three river systems.
Airlines cancelled flights, and all affected ports and rail lines were shut.
Several malls in Manila closed early, and offered temporary shelters and free overnight parking and charging stations.
Weather forecasters said Noru would continue dumping heavy rain till Monday. “Widespread flooding and rain-induced landslides are expected,” they added.
Ms Rhea Tan, 54, a restaurant manager in Dingalan town, in Aurora province, opted not to evacuate.
“We live away from the coast, so we’re staying put so far. We’re more worried about the water from the mountains,” she told AFP.
The typhoon is expected to weaken late on Monday before heading towards Vietnam.
The Philippines – ranked among the nations most vulnerable to the impact of climate change – is hit by an average of 20 typhoons each year. In 2013, Super Typhoon Haiyan left at least 6,000 dead.
Noru, though, is following the pattern of Typhoon Ketsana, which in 2009 triggered floods in nearly a third of Metro Manila. Hundreds died as rivers broke their banks and swept away entire neighbourhoods.
The Department of Agriculture said on Sunday that farmland affected could reach 1.47 million ha, where 75 per cent of the nation’s standing rice crops are planted, and this risks fanning inflation.
Rice farmer Felix Pangibitan in Quezon province said on Facebook: “What a waste if the typhoon destroys my rice fields. I’m taking a video because I’m not sure what would happen tomorrow. Whatever happens is the Lord’s will. But how sad it is to be a farmer.”
Prayers up for Luzon Filipinos safety.
Just calling it a “typhoon” isn’t nearly sufficient, we’re way beyond that now.
I was in Super Typhoon Wynne in 1980. Darn thing lasted for three days.
How is it where you are?
I left Keesler, right before Camille hit in 69.
I didn’t even know there WAS a typhoon, till you asked about it. 🤪😆
Actually, typhoons use a different intensity scale instead of the Saffir–Simpson scale. They use names instead of Category numbers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone_scales
“ In addition to the national meteorological services of each nation, the United States’ Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) monitors the basin, and issues warnings on significant tropical cyclones for the United States Government,[9] assigning them two-digit TC numbers (with suffix “W”).[2] These warnings use a 1-minute sustained wind speed and can be compared to the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale; however, the JTWC uses their own scale for intensity classifications in this basin.[10] These classifications are Tropical Depression, Tropical Storm, Typhoon, and Super Typhoon.[10] The United States’ Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) unofficially classifies typhoons with wind speeds of at least 130 knots (67 m/s; 150 mph; 241 km/h)—the equivalent of a strong Category 4 storm on the Saffir–Simpson scale—as super typhoons.[11]”
That’s good to know.
Look at his photo of what happened around him. He lives in Florida which has another hurricane headed his way.
Catturd ™
People still don’t understand how completely destroyed the area I live was when Cat 5 hurricane Michael hit 4-years-ago.
Here’s an example of what it did to almost every property for miles around me. It looked like it was nuked. Mexico Beach still hasn’t fully recovered.
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1573815799298539529
Here is his thoughts on bad weather reporting.
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1574184459859116033
It’s really hard to plan for a Hurricane when this is what we’re getting every 4 hours
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1574131793518686209
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