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The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Filipino
Filipino language

The Filipino language is the national language and an official language of the Philippines as designated in the 1987 Philippine Constitution. It is an Austronesian language that is the de facto standard language of Tagalog language....
: Pangasiwaang Pilipino sa Palingkurang Atmosperiko, Heopisikal at Astronomiko, abbreviated as PAGASA, which means "hope" in Filipino
Filipino language

The Filipino language is the national language and an official language of the Philippines as designated in the 1987 Philippine Constitution. It is an Austronesian language that is the de facto standard language of Tagalog language....
) is a Philippine
Philippines

The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
 national institution dedicated to provide flood
Flood

A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land, a deluge. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide....
 and typhoon warnings, public weather forecasts and advisories, meteorological, astronomical, climatological, and other specialized information and services primarily for the protection of life and property and in support of economic, productivity and sustainable development.






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The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Filipino
Filipino language

The Filipino language is the national language and an official language of the Philippines as designated in the 1987 Philippine Constitution. It is an Austronesian language that is the de facto standard language of Tagalog language....
: Pangasiwaang Pilipino sa Palingkurang Atmosperiko, Heopisikal at Astronomiko, abbreviated as PAGASA, which means "hope" in Filipino
Filipino language

The Filipino language is the national language and an official language of the Philippines as designated in the 1987 Philippine Constitution. It is an Austronesian language that is the de facto standard language of Tagalog language....
) is a Philippine
Philippines

The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
 national institution dedicated to provide flood
Flood

A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land, a deluge. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide....
 and typhoon warnings, public weather forecasts and advisories, meteorological, astronomical, climatological, and other specialized information and services primarily for the protection of life and property and in support of economic, productivity and sustainable development. The government agency was created on December 08, 1972 by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 78. The Presedential decree reorganized the Weather Bureau into PAGASA.

PAGASA monitors tropical cyclone
Tropical cyclone

A tropical cyclone is a storm characterized by a large low pressure system center and numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds and flooding rain....
 activity and issues warnings within its area of responsibility. This area is bound by an imaginary line drawn along the following coordinates:

25°N 120°E, 25°N 135°E, 5°N 135°E, 5°N 115°E, 15°N 115°E, 21°N 120°E and back to the beginning.


Tropical cyclone bulletins are issued by PAGASA every six hours for all tropical cyclones within this area that have or are anticipated to make landfall within the Philippines, or twelve hours when cyclones are not affecting land. On August 27, 2007, Pagasa announced that it was putting up a tornado warning system
Warning system

A warning system is any system of biological or technical nature deployed by an individual or group to inform of a future danger. Its purpose is to enable the deployer of the warning system to prepare for the danger and act accordingly to mitigate against or avoid it....
, days after several more powerful and destructive tornadoes damaged houses in Central Luzon
Central Luzon

Central Luzon , also known as Region III , is an administrative division or Regions of the Philippines of the Republic of the Philippines, primarily serve to organize the 7 provinces of the vast central plain of the island of Luzon , for administrative convenience....
. It also advised residents in Western Luzon to expect more tornadoes (July to September) due to the abnormal weather patterns, the monsoon
Monsoon

A monsoon is a seasonal prevailing wind that lasts for several months. The term was first used in English in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and neighboring countries to refer to the big seasonal winds blowing from the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea in the southwest bringing heavy rainfall to the region....
 and climate change
Climate change

Climate change is any long-term significant change in the expected patterns of average weather of a specific region over an appropriately significant period of time....
. On August 23, 2007, a 2nd tornado destroyed 30 houses in 4 villages in San Miguel
San Miguel

San Miguel, Spanish language for Saint Michael, describes numerous locations....
, Bulacan
Bulacan

Bulacan , officially called the Province of Bulacan or simply Bulacan Province, is a first class Provinces of the Philippines of the Republic of the Philippines located in the Central Luzon Regions of the Philippines in the island of Luzon, north of Manila , and part of the Super regions of the Philippines....
, the first having damaged 27 houses in San Rafael
San Rafael

San Rafael is a common place-name in areas where that tongue is or was spoken:...
 on Aug. 8.

See also

  • 2008 Pacific typhoon season
    2008 Pacific typhoon season

    The 2008 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it runs year-round in 2008, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between May and November....
  • Amado Pineda
    Amado Pineda

    Amado Pineda is a Filipino people meteorologist who became the first widely recognized television weather forecasting in the Philippines.A meteorologist with the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration , Pineda began doing weather forecasts for the evening newscast of GMA Network in the 1970s until the 1...


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