Video Of Tropical Storm Washi Philippines

Tropical storm Washi has devastated coastal areas of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan, Philippines.The view from a storm Washi very sad. Homes were destroyed, the tree collapsed and cars were overturned. Residents who lost their homes were forced to take shelter in refugee camps.

Based on the record of the Philippine Red Cross, until Monday, December 19, 2011, the death toll from the storm Washi reached 652 people. The possibility of the death toll to rise. Section, 900 people are reported missing has not been known to live or die.

Washi storm has passed the southern Philippines on Monday morning local time. More than 135 thousand inhabitants the second largest island in the Philippines affected by the storm is expected, and 47 thousand of whom were in evacuation centers, as published by CNN.

The government says the survivors are now really need clean water, medicines, and more shelters. United States and China has offered assistance to provide food assistance, clothing, shelter, and energy to assist in the rescue. Filipinos can breathe a little sigh of relief because the Board of Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Philippines did not issue a storm warning of aftershocks. However, they still have to clean up the devastated areas after the storm.

Areas most severely affected by floods is Iligan and Cagayan de Oro, where many houses are swept away by floods that rush when you're fast asleep. The Philippine government said was criticized for being less intense storm warning. See the video area of ​​Iligan and Cagayan de Oro that the storm-ravaged

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Washi Storm Already Kills 1,000 People

Philippine President Benigno Aquino yesterday pledged assistance to flood victims in the southern region. Until yesterday the death toll and missing reached 1,000 people. The Philippine government has finally announced the status of a national disaster after floods and landslides causing loss of nearly 1,000 people. Washi storm induced disasters have also caused tens of thousands of people homeless.

Aquino visited the island of Mindanao to inspect the Port of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan are submerged mud and garbage. Hundreds of corpses are rotting feared could spread the disease. "I guarantee that the government will help you rebuild your home. However, we ask that you do not go back to where you live before a disaster-prone, "said Aquino, quoted by AFP.

Aquino promised to fix the roads and damaged irrigation systems, relocate residents to a safe area of ​​the disaster, as well as installing an early warning system for river water levels across the country so that it can help people avoid similar disasters in the future. The government said as many as 957 people were killed and 49 people missing after the floods that hit the two port cities and surrounding areas on Friday night (16/12) during a tropical storm Washi. Washi storm brought heavy rain that made the river overflow, resulting in flooding and landslides in the middle of the night. The number of victims continues to grow as several bodies being dragged out to sea are found.

"They are under the water surface during the first three days, but now, when the bodies were decomposing, they float on the surface of the water," said Benito Ramos, head of the Philippine Civil Defense Agency. Mass funeral plans were announced the day after yesterday was postponed because local officials want to take fingerprints and DNA samples for identification. Ministry of Justice urged the Philippines to do a good documentation of all deaths

"The first priority is to relocate to an area which is no longer harm them," said President Benigno Aquino, Tuesday (12/20/2011), in a meeting in Cagayan de Oro. He promised the government would seek to prevent casualties as small as possible in the event of a disaster of this magnitude again.

Washi storm that hit the Philippines, Saturday (17/12/2011) and then, causing flood flash floods and landslides in various areas. Recent data reported by the Philippine National Disaster Agency said the death toll was 957 people and 49 people missing. Total casualties 338,000 people in 13 provinces with 43,000 people still displaced. Areas most severely affected in the two cities, the city of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan in Mindanao region.

Aquino's spokesman, Ricky Carandang, said, with the announcement of the status of a national disaster, it is more free to open help from the outside. In addition to channeling relief and rehabilitation, one of the things that are also of concern is the anticipated spread of the disease after disaster.

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Weather

The weather system includes the dynamics of the atmosphere and its interaction with the oceans and land. Weather includes those local or microphysical processes that occur in minutes through the global-scale phenomena that can be predicted with a degree of success at an estimated maximum of two weeks prior. The Weather theme is important to the NASA Earth Science for two reasons. First, the improvement of our understanding of weather processes and phenomena is crucial in gaining an understanding of the Earth system. It is directly related to the Climate and Water/Energy Cycle Themes. In both cases, the dynamics are to a large degree controlled by "weather processes." Second, there is an infrastructure in the U.S. for operational meteorology at NOAA, the FAA, the DoD, and others that requires the introduction of new technologies and knowledge that only NASA can develop.

NASA has been a strong contributor to the National weather forecasting goals in the past, and will continue in the future, primarily through the development and use of data from space-based sensors. Satellite-based profiles of temperature and moisture have been routinely used in the operational system for more than two decades, and new NASA sensors hold promise for more accuracy and spatial resolution. A geostationary Lightning Mapper Sensor (LMS) will provide dramatic improvements in the operational use of sounding data for real-time diagnosing of severe storms. Recent developments in the assimilation of radar and passive microwave data from TRMM and the Advanced Infrared Sounder (AIRS) data from Aqua have been shown to improve weather forecasts.

This image shows Tropical Storm Flossie as it was moving westward in the East Pacific shortly before it became a hurricane. The image was taken by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (or TRMM) satellite at 07:40 UTC on the 10th of August 2007 and shows the horizontal pattern of rain intensity within the storm. Rain rates in the center of the swath are from the TRMM PR, and those in the outer swath come from the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI). The rain rates are overlaid on infrared (IR) data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner (VIRS). Although the storm is still fairly asymmetric with most of the rain (blue and green areas indicating light to moderate rain intensities, respectively) south of the center, an eye is beginning to emerge, and there is good banding (curvature) in the rain field. There is also an area of more intense rain (dark indicative of a mature, intense hurricane. At the time of this image, maximum sustained winds were estimated at 55 knots (63 mph) by the National Hurricane Center.

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GOES-13 Looks at Thanksgiving Travel Conditions, Sees No Tropical Cyclones

The GOES-13 satellite captured a look at the cloud cover and weather systems around the U.S. on Nov. 24 as Thanksgiving travelers make their way to their holiday celebrations. With six days left in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Ocean hurricane season there is not a tropical cyclone in sight.

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) series of satellites are operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NASA's GOES Project, located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. creates some of the satellite images and animations from the GOES satellites.

The GOES-13 satellite captured an image of North America on Wednesday, November 24 at 1445 UTC (9:45 a.m. EST) showing a large area of cloud cover stretching from the Gulf coast north into the upper Midwest. That cloud cover is associated with a warm front that stretches from the Tennessee Valley west to Kansas where an associated low pressure area is located.

Residents the in the Tennessee and Ohio valleys can expect rain from that system, and severe storms are possible in Missouri, northern Arkansas and eastern Kansas and eastern Oklahoma today.

Ahead of the large blanket of cloud cover, high pressure is currently keeping the U.S. east coast in sunshine, but that will change as the clouds track east by Thanksgiving Day.

Behind the blanket of cloud cover appears to be a long line of clouds from south to north that resembles an exclamation mark. Those are clouds associated with a front that's bringing snow to Minnesota, the Dakotas, western Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, northern Arizona and eastern Utah today. Snows in North Dakota and the Colorado Rockies may be heavy.

To the west of that line of clouds there is a high pressure system centered over northern Nevada which will bring mostly clear conditions to Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, and California.

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