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Dozens injured as 'very strong' Typhoon Trami makes landfall in Wakayama
A powerful typhoon battered mainland Japan on Sunday after injuring dozens in the nation's southern islands. Weather officials warned that fierce winds and torrential rain could trigger landslides and floods. A woman in her 60s who went missing in Miyazaki Prefecture had been washed away ...
Philippine farmers struggle to rebuild lives after typhoon decimates crops
The destruction of crops by a powerful typhoon will push people in the Philippines deeper into poverty and prolong recovery efforts, aid agencies said as they called for more assistance for farmers. Typhoon Mangkhut tore across the northern part of the Philippines just over a ...
How to sum up Japan's summer of disaster in Japanese?
The summer of 2018 was one for the books — busting meteorological records, wreaking havoc and devastating entire regions along the coast of western Japan.
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Typhoon Mangkhut lashes southern China after earlier killing 36 in Philippines
Typhoon Mangkhut barreled into southern China on Sunday after lashing the northern Philippines with strong winds and heavy rain that left at least 36 people dead and dozens more feared buried in a landslide. More than 2.4 million people had been relocated in southern China's ...
Experts explain why deadly storms Florence, Mangkhut are as different as water and wind
Nature expresses its fury in sundry ways. Two deadly storms — Hurricane Florence and Typhoon Mangkhut — roared ashore on the same day, half a world apart, but the way they spread devastation was as different as water and wind. Storms in the Western Pacific ...
Floodwaters rise, leaving at least 11 dead as Tropical Storm Florence dumps epic rain on Carolinas
As the death toll from Florence mounted and hundreds of people were pulled from flooded homes, North Carolina is bracing for what could be the next stage of a still-unfolding disaster: widespread, catastrophic river flooding. After blowing ashore as a hurricane with winds of 90 ...
Ferocious Typhoon Mangkhut knocks out power as it plows through northeast Philippines
Typhoon Mangkhut slammed into the Philippines' northeastern coast early Saturday, its ferocious winds and blinding rain ripping off tin roof sheets and knocking out power, and plowed through the agricultural region at the start of the onslaught. The typhoon made landfall before dawn in the ...
Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina early Friday, pushing a life-threatening storm surge of floodwater miles inland and ripping apart buildings with screaming wind and pelting rain. More than 60 people had to be pulled from a collapsing motel at the height of the ...
The Philippines raised its storm warning on Friday and warned of major destruction hours before Typhoon Mangkhut was due to make landfall with fierce winds and drenching rains. Thousands have already fled their homes on the Philippines' northern coastal tip ahead of the early Saturday ...
Hurricane Florence closes in U.S. east coast; historic rain forecast
Hurricane Florence was on course Wednesday to deliver a devastating blow to the east coast of the United States, with millions urged to flee inland hours before it was due to announce its arrival with torrential downpours. Georgia joined four other coastal states issuing an ...
