Tropical storm Huanin struck Philippines
Baku, July 26 (AZERTAC). The Philippine Atmospheric Administration, Geophysical and Astronomical Services (PAGASA) in the last bulletin on its website informs that "christened" meteorologists "Huanin» (Juaning) storm, whose center was located Tuesday morning at 90 kilometers northeast of the capital of Northern Province Catanduanes town Virak, moving northwest at 19 kilometers per hour. "Huanin" carries with it a wind speed of 65 mph with gusts up to 80 miles per hour, in most northern provinces of the Philippines declared a storm warning of the first or second degree. Along the coast of Bicol region, which includes Catanduanes, missing eight fishermen, and huge waves washed ashore Province of South Camarines cargo ship MV Concepcion, which tried to shelter from bad weather in the port of San Pascual, reports news portal GMA News. Heavy rains prior to the fourth dumped on the Philippines for the past two months, storm flooded part of Metro Manila, noted on the website of the newspaper Philippine Daily Inquirer. In the three northern regions canceled classes in schools, and has arrived at the lessons students encouraged to return home immediately. Bad weather has forced to cancel some domestic flights, and in some ports in the northern Philippines vessels are in port. Each year during the rainy season from June to December at the Philippine archipelago falls about 20 storms and typhoons. A month ago, at least 18 Filipinos were missing and more than 75 000 have lost their shelter as a result of the passage to the east of the country`s tropical storm "Falcon" (according to international classification - "Meari"). The sad record for the number of victims in the country keeps a typhoon in 1991 that killed six thousand inhabitants of the island Leyte Philippines.
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