Philippines typhoon kills a hundred: 8,00,000 displaced

Typhoon Haiyan in Philippines has killed more than 100 and left 800,000 people displaced. Typhoon Haiyan tore through the eastern and central Philippines on November 9, 2013. It is one of the strongest to hit the Philippines, which is battered by at least 20 cyclones every year. It was stronger than Typhoon Bopha that left more than 1,800 people dead or missing in the southern region of Mindanao in 2012. According to the Meteorologists Haiyan is the largest typhoon in the world since Typhoon Tip in October 1979, which killed nearly 100 people in Japan and Guam. It is unofficially the strongest land falling tropical cyclone in recorded history. According to the national weather bureau, Haiyan was packing maximum winds of 95 km and gusts of up to 275 kph when it hit and went “island-hopping” in the Philippines. The other weather organisations placed its maximum winds at 315 kph and gusts at 380 kph. The storm weakened after making six landfalls in the eastern and central Philippines, with its maximum winds easing to 175 kph and gusts to 210 kph, the weather bureau said. It was expected to be out of the Philippines on November 9, afternoon. Typhoon: A typhoon is a mature tropical cyclone that develops in the western part of the Pacific Ocean between 180° and 100°E. This region is referred to as the Northwest Pacific Basin. For organizational purposes, the northern Pacific Ocean is divided into three regions: the eastern (North America to 140°W), central (140°W to 180°), and western (180° to 100°E). The Regional Specialized Meteorological Center (RSMC) for tropical cyclone forecasts is in Japan, with other tropical cyclone warning centers for the northwest Pacific in Honolulu (the Joint Typhoon Warning Center), the Philippines, and Hong Kong. While the RSMC names each system, the main name list itself is coordinated amongst 18 countries that have territories threatened by typhoons each year. The Philippines uses their own naming list for systems which approach the country. For instance a typhoon is called Yolanda Philippines.

What: Typhoon Haiyan kills a hundred people and 800,000 left displaced When: November 8, 2013