All the heat and air. Ondoy's rainfall remains unmatched by other typhoons that followed.
Almost 5 years after Ondoy, Tropical Storm Mario (international name: Fung-wong) hit almost the same areas affected by Ondoy. Send us a quick mail using our contact form how you would like to get involved with ThePhilippines.PH :). A one night mighty typhoon that marks on Philippine typhoon history wherein it shatters a lot of Filipinos lives and livelihood and not sparing even Philippine celebrities in just One Night.Everyone was caught in a surprise by this super One Night typhoon wherein the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration or PAGASA have not exactly forecast its forthcoming and have fore warn the public, thus so it goes, Ondoy stealthily creep in and pour its fury in just one night where everyone is not expecting its forthcoming and escape or slide away after it devastate too much the Luzon part of the Philippines. For other storms of the same name, see This article is about the 2009 typhoon. Most typhoons form in a region in the northwest Pacific known as typhoon alley, where the planet's most powerful tropical cyclones most frequently develop. The soil can absorb between 40–60 mm (1.6–2.4 in) in 6 hours without flooding, so many areas were heavily flooded and the provinces of Camarines Norte, On September 24, 2009, Ketsana was estimated to be 330 km (210 mi) northeast of At 2:00 PM PST (0600 UTC) that day, Ketsana approached On the afternoon of September 26, Gilbert Teodoro declared an overall At the height of the flooding, around 100,000 liters of bunker oil from the paper manufacturing firm Noah's Paper Mill in On September 28, PAGASA lifted all public storm signals in the country as Ketsana left the The Vietnamese government evacuated some 170,000 people as floodwater rose high to the country's six central provinces. For the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration or PAGASA still could not have such high-tech facilities that could predict another Ondoy because as they complain, according to the reports, there is no too much funds allotted to them by the government and some high learned officials of PAGASA were resigning and transferring into another country because the salary in PAGASA is just low or minimum for the important service they give to the public.Thanks for sharing this valuable information with us, I am very much surprised after reading this blog.Hello ! For other storms of the same name, see Ketsana shortly before being upgraded to a typhoon on September 28

Ondoy was like a mighty man who cast out all it has on a one Big One Night Stand. The thunderstorms convert the moisture into heat.

An estimated 50-80% of the rainfall in 6 hours and 65-95% of the rainfall in 9–12 hours was recorded. Typhoon Ketsana, known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Ondoy, was the second-most devastating tropical cyclone of the 2009 Pacific typhoon season, causing $1.09 billion in damages and 747 fatalities, only behind Morakot earlier in the season, which caused 789 deaths and damages worth $6.2 billion. Thanks. Yes, a One Night of heavy spilling and blowing its mighty strength upon the navel of Philippines’ Luzon Island that resulted into massive large flooding and casualties. Who is among the Filipinos who could not remember “Ondoy”? of the storm which causes more evaporation. Typhoons start off as tropical thunderstorms. Typhoon Ketsana formed in a reverse-oriented MT that provided a favorable large-scale environment with high humidity and abundant low-level cyclonic vorticity for TC formation (not shown).
Most tropical cyclones form on the side of the subtropical ridge closer to the equator, then move poleward past the ridge axis before recurving north and northeast into the main belt of the Westerlies. Areas west of Japan and

Ketsana formed early about 860 km (530 mi) to the northwest of Throughout September 25 the intensification of Ondoy was hampered by the system moving into an area of moderate vertical During September 27, Ketsana gradually developed further and was upgraded to a typhoon by the JTWC and the JMA early the next day, as multiple convective bands were continuing to consolidate more tightly around the low-level circulation center, leading to the formation of a disorganized eye.

1. There were two low-level jets at each side of the monsoon trough; the westerlies to the south were particularly strong. Arayat at purok 6 San Juan Bano Arayat, as it was reported. The heat causes more air to flow to the center. On the evening of the same day, Ketsana was forecast to be moving toward There was major flooding in the southern and central provinces of Some 48 hours after Ketsana struck Metro Manila, the Philippine government appealed to the international community and the In the Philippines, the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) headed the rescue and relief operations for the citizens affected by Ketsana's flooding. Ketsana was the sixteenth tropical storm, and the eighth typhoon of the season. Due to the damage and deaths caused by the storm, the names Nilo left PAGASA after Graciano Yumul, Jr., took Nilo's vacant seat.

There was also a counterpart private-sector effort among companies and Vietnamese officials and media reported that Chinese naval forces mistreated Vietnamese fishermen who tried to take shelter from the typhoon in the disputed Nguyen Viet Thang, chairman of the Vietnam Fishery Association, said his organization was preparing an official protest to China over the incidents. I just added your site to my bookmark page.We are looking for your stories, videos, local news and opinions.