{"id":5597,"date":"2012-12-02T23:01:55","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T23:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=5597"},"modified":"2012-12-02T22:27:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T22:27:16","slug":"an-update-on-typhoon-bopha-as-it-heads-towards-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/12\/02\/an-update-on-typhoon-bopha-as-it-heads-towards-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"An update on Typhoon Bopha as it heads towards the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick update on Typhoon Bopha (Pablo) as it churns its way towards the Philippines.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/tropical\/tracking\/wp201226.html\">The most recent forecasts<\/a> suggest that it will make landfall in the southern part of the Philippines on Tuesday as a category 3 storm, and then will rapidly weaken as it loses its energy source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/12\/02\/an-update-on-typhoon-bopha-as-it-heads-towards-the-philippines\/12_12-bopha-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5598\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5598\" title=\"12_12 Bopha 3\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/12\/12_12-Bopha-3.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/12\/12_12-Bopha-3.gif 640w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/12\/12_12-Bopha-3-300x225.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>This remains a very grave danger to Mindanao and associated areas.\u00a0 As I have noted before, even though meteorologists focus on wind speeds, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/09\/01\/reflections-on-hurricane-irene-its-as-much-to-do-with-water-as-wind\/\">most of the harm caused by tropical cyclones comes from\u00a0 water<\/a> &#8211; i.e. storm surge, floods and rainfall triggered landslides.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunstar.com.ph\/bacolod\/local-news\/2012\/12\/03\/negros-rescue-groups-alert-typhoon-pablo-256393\"> Efforts are being made to prepare for the storm<\/a>, but this has the potential to be very serious.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update on Typhoon Bopha (Pablo), which remains a very serious threat to the Philippines.  Landfall is expected on Tuesday<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":5598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[469,252,975],"class_list":["post-5597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-typhoon","tag-featured","tag-philippines","tag-typhoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}