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Device for Measuring Rainwater by Maria Antoinette Del Castillo
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Due to the typhoons that hit the Philippines last month, “Pedring” and “Quiel”, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration or PAGASA has been prodded to develop a device which would also calculate the amount of rainwater that a typhoon carries. Device for Measuring Rainwater According to PAGASA, storm signals don’t indicate the amount of rainwater a typhoon possesses, only its wind speed. This is because the device that PAGASA to measure a storm’s signal is based on its wind speed and gustiness, and not the amount of rainwater. This is the reason why PAGASA wasn’t able to announce the amount of damage that Ondoy could cause before it made a landfall in the Philippines. It was also because of the lack of a device which could calculate the amount of rainwater a typhoon carries that Filipinos weren’t prepared when typhoons Peding and Quiel had passed through the Philippines. It was because of these, according to latest Philippines Weather reports, that PAGASA had undertaken a research with Taiwan’s Typhoon and Flood Research Institute to develop a model that would allow flood-risk mapping based on an analysis of rainfall. According to reports, PAGASA and the University of the Philippines’ National Institute of Geological Sciences (NIGS) will start this research with their Taiwanese counterpart between now and 2013. It was actually one of the researches that both the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (Meco) and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (Teco) agreed to jointly undertake for the next two years at last week’s Third Joint Science and Technology Commission Meeting in Taipei according to a report. The other research projects that the Meco and Teco agreed to undertake concerned pest management in tomato and squash; biodiversity, estuarine and near-shore fishes as indicators of environmental changes, among others, according to Yumul. Latest Weather Report According to latest Weather Philippines report, a low pressure area is embedded along the intertropical convergence zone, which is said to affect southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Eastern and Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao will experience cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms becoming cloudy with widespread rains over Aurora, Quezon, Bicol region, Eastern Visayas and Eastern Mindanao, which may trigger flashfloods and landslides, Pagasa said.
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