Typhoon Hagupit was still bringing heavy rain to the central Philippines on Monday, three days after it first made landfall in the country as a Category 3 typhoon. The heavy rains are falling in the flood-prone capital of Manila, home to about 12 million people
So far, the storm has killed at least 21 across several islands, and driven more than a million to evacuation shelters. However, the storm has not caused the widespread flooding and landslide damage that weather forecasters and emergency management officials had feared.
Although the storm was once a feared super typhoon, it has largely spared the Philippines from the devastation wrought last year from Super Typhoon Haiyan. The two storms have presented dramatically different hazards. Haiyan was one of the most intense storms on record to hit land, at high-end Category 5 intensity, and it drove a 17-foot storm surge into the city of Tacloban, killing at least 7,000 people Read more...
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