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Update of Tropical Cyclone Yolanda Issued at: 11:00 a.m., 07 November 2013  MTSAT ENHANCED-IR Satellite Image 11:57 a.m., 07 November 2013 Storm Signal Signal 3: Eastern Samar  Samar Leyte Southern Leyte Siargao Island Dinagat Province   Signal 2: Northern Samar Biliran Province Bantayan and Camotes Islands Northern Cebu including Cebu City Bohol Surigao Del Norte Camiguin Surigao Del Sur Agusan Del Norte Signal 1: Camarines Norte Camarines Sur Catanduanes Albay Mindoro Provinces Burias Island,  Romblon  Marinduque  Calamian Group of Island  Southern Quezon Aklan Capiz Iloilo Antique, Guimaras, Negros Occidental and Oriental Rest of Cebu Siquijor Misamis Oriental Agusan del Sur

Satellite Picture at 10:30 a.m., 04 December 2012  "PABLO" is 50 km East of Malaybalay, Bukidnon   as of PAGASA's Weather Bulletin Number EIGHT issued at 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, 04 December 2012. Below are the list of provinces under Storm Signal: Signal No. 3 - Bohol - Siquijor - Southern Cebu - Southern Negros Oriental - Southern Negros Occidental - Misamis Oriental - Bukidnon - Lanao del Sur - Lanao del Norte - Misamis Occidental - Zamboanga del Norte - Camiguin Signal No. 2 - Northern Palawan - Calamian Grp. Of Islands - Cuyo Islands - Southern Leyte - Antique - Iloilo - Rest of Cebu - Camotes Island - Rest of Negros Oriental - Rest of Negros Occidental  - Surigao del Norte - Siargao - Surigao del Sur - Dinagat Province - Agusan del Norte - Agusan del Sur - Davao del Norte - Samal Island - Compostela Valley - Davao Oriental - North Cotabato - Zamboanga del Sur - Zamboanga Sibugay - Maguindanao Signal No.1 - ...

I just read this one from yahoo news.  About solar storms, this idea never came up into my mind and now I've realized how scary it was. According to the news our sun now has dozens of sunspots.  It has 17 and one is about the size of the earth.  After years of quiet, the sun is coming alive with solar storms in a big way. The outer solar atmosphere, the corona, is structured by strong magnetic fields, which when closed can cause the atmosphere to suddenly and violently release bubbles or tongues of gas and magnetic fields called coronal mass ejections which streak out through the interplanetary medium, impacting any planets or spacecraft in its path. So, it might be possible that out planet will be hit by one of these.... Scarry 

I've read this news from yahoo and I find it very interesting, so I posted it here. To this woman I salute you and you are an angel sent by God to save the child. BEIJING (AP) — A two-year-old Chinese girl left unattended fell 10 stories from her family's apartment window and survived after being caught by a woman passing by, state media reported Sunday. The toddler was in critical condition Sunday with internal bleeding and other unspecified injuries while the woman who saved her suffered a broken arm, China Central Television and the Xinhua News Agency said. The girl, named Zhang Fangyu but known by the nickname Niu Niu, was in the care of her grandmother Saturday afternoon when the older woman left the 10th-floor apartment outside the eastern city of Hangzhou to run an errand, CCTV said. Neighbors saw Niu Niu dangling from the apartment window for several minutes, Xinhua said, and when the girl fell, Wu Juping "kicked off her high-heeled shoes" and ran to ...