MIKE WOOTTON
MIKE WOOTTON

Another major weather event has just passed us by, Super Typhoon Ruby, but then it is the typhoon season, June to November, so about 20 or so are to be expected as usual. As we well know, these weather events cause a lot of problems, and following the Haiyan disaster both in preparedness and effect, public sensitivities are readily focused on the potential risks of big typhoons heading towards land. Lots of people, including me, were constantly checking the weather information to try to assess what the effects will be in their own or their family’s locality. At one stage, several different tracks were being forecast by various agencies, weather forecasting being the rather inexact science that it is. What did become fairly evident, though, was that the typhoon was weakening fast by the time it made its first landfall in Samar on Saturday.

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