Tag Archives: Philippines

Floods and Landslides in Brazil and the Philippines…Death Toll Continues to Rise

In YourWeatherBlog last week we talked about the devastating floods that hit Australia and today the government is saying it could be the country’s most expensive natural disaster to date. However, it’s not just Australia that’s dealing with disastrous floods. Heavy rain has also fallen in Brazil causing devastating floods and landslides. So far more [...]

El Niño and the Famous Rice Terraces

The famous Ifugao Rice Terraces in the Philippines and El Niño are rarely mentioned in the same sentence, but it’s been happening lately. Actually, you can link El Niño to lots of things that are affected by the unusually warm waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean off the coasts of South and Central America — [...]