WITH climate change making storms stronger and more damaging, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) should have all the funding support it needs to be able to efficiently perform its function of forecasting weather events accurately.

The good news is PAGASA’s budget for this year is up by 525 percent to P3.46 billion from the P396.5 million of last year.

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