Baguio (Hazards & Disasters)

Tropical Storm Washi on Dec. 16, 2011, The western half of Washi is over Minandao in the southern Philippines. Credit: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team

Meteorology (main)

Baguio

Published: March 29, 2010, 12:00 am

Updated: May 30, 2013, 11:23 am

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Meteorology (main) Oceans and seas (main) Atmospheric Science (main) Hazards & Disasters (main)

Baguio is a name sometimes given to tropical cyclones in the Phillipines, especially those occurring from July to November.

This article is written at a definitional level only. Authors wishing to expand this entry are inivited to expand the present treatment, which additions will be peer reviewed prior to publication of any expansion.

The term appears chiefly in the English or American literature regarding meteorology of the Phillipines region; moreover, the term is actually derived derived from the city of Baguio, where an historic 24-hour rainfall of 46 inches occurred during the passage of a tropical cyclone in July 1911.

Further Reading

• American Meteorological Society. 2012. Glossary of Meteorology
• Physical Oceanography Index
• David Longshore. 2010. Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones. books.google.com 468 pages

Citation

Baum, S. (2013). Baguio. Retrieved from http://editors.eol.org/eoearth/wiki/Baguio_(Hazards_&_Disasters)

2 Comments

C Michael Hogan wrote: 05-29-2013 23:20:26

Thanks for the insight, Gabrielle. Modification made.

Gabrielle Iglesias wrote: 05-28-2013 02:00:45

Baguio is the name of the city where a typhoon passed in 1911, and lent itself to be the Tagalog term for a typhoon. It is not a corruption of bagyo, strictly speaking. Here's a link: http://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Baguio