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NOAH mobile app a "Swiss-Army knife" of weather tools

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The NOAH mobile application was dubbed the “Swiss Army Knife of weather tools,” with its integration of timely and user-friendly data to provide near real-time weather information to Filipinos.  An article from the Yahoo! News Philippines included the NOAH mobile app in its top  “must-have” mobile applications for the rainy days. “Call it the Swiss Army knife of weather tools, combining multiple approaches to somehow understand and subsequently second-guess the[…]

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Hourly Updates on Tropical Storm GORIO

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Updates from PAGASA: At 1:00 p.m. 30 June 2013, the center of Tropical Storm “GORIO” was estimated based on all available data at 110 km West Southwest of Iba, Zambales (15.2°N, 118.9°E). Areas having public storm warning signal: Signal No. 1 (45 – 60 km/hr winds): Luzon: Metro Manila, Pangasinan, Zambales, Bataan, Cavite, Batangas, Mindoro Provinces, Lubang Island Visayas: None Mindanao: None Current storm track and visual can also be seen in the NOAH website: http://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/index.shtml http://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/wb/tc_up.html Project NOAH Website

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Gorio causes floods, stranded travelers in Eastern Visayas

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Tropical Storm “Gorio” stranded more than 10,000 passengers in Eastern Visayas on Saturday, June 29. “Gorio” made its first landfall in Hernani Eastern Samar by 8:00 am on June 29, 2013, bringing heavy to intense rain which caused flooding and landslides, and impassable roads. How Tropical Storm Gorio (Signal No. 2) looks like in Ormoc ( 9:30 am June 29, 2013). A bus tries to cross the flooded highway in[…]

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Standards for Safer, Healthier ASEAN Communities

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Original post from http://blogs.usembassy.gov/asean/tag/project-noah/ by Nalindra Annalia   Standards have made life easier for people. Just like getting on the weighing scale, we learn how much weight we need to put on or to reduce to be considered healthy. In the Philippines, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is the sole authority on standards. DOST, particularly its Metrology Laboratories, is the place to go for companies to validate their machines, equipment,[…]

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