by V. Manalo, 2010, Proceedings (CD-ROM) of the Earthquake and Severe Wind Exposure and Vulnerability Workshop, Tagaytay City; co-organized by PAGASA, PHIVOLCS, and Geoscience Australia.
Summary and Commentary (by R.E.R.Aquino): The presentation discussed some basics of meteorology, i.e. definitions of wind storms or weather systems commonly occurring in the Philippines such as thunderstorms, tornadoes, northeast monsoon winds ("amihan"), southeast monsoon winds ("habagat"), and tropical cyclones. It included a slide which shows that around 30% of all tropical cyclones occurring world wide yearly are formed in the Northwest Pacific, which are the ones affecting the Philippines. The presentation also includes "historical" (recorded) maximum wind speed maps on a monthly basis as well as damages caused by selected numbers of very strong tropical cyclones. One mention is that of Typhoon Reming of 2006, which is reported to have 320 kph (89 m/s) peak gust speeds recorded. A question though on my mind is, are our instruments reliably capable of measuring more than 80 m/s wind speeds?
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