Philippines: Southwest Monsoon enhanced by Tropical Cyclones Maymay and Dolphin, 2026 was recorded by Global Incident Tracker on Thursday, 13 August 2026 at 00:00 UTC. The event is classified as a cyclone / hurricane incident with a severity rating of Severe, and was detected through IFRC.
Recorded by the IFRC (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) as an emergency a national society responded to. Unlike a warning or a news report, this means a humanitarian response was actually mounted.
Where this happened
The incident is located in Philippines (Asia), whose capital is Manila. Historically, Philippines is most affected by typhoons, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and floods. You can follow every incident recorded in this country, updated live, on the Philippines incident tracker.
Approximate coordinates of the reported event are 12.900°, 121.800°. The marker on the map above shows this position; for news-derived reports the location reflects the place named in media coverage and may represent a district or city rather than an exact site.
Understanding cyclone / hurricane events
Tropical cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons with damaging wind and surge. Tropical cyclones cause harm through four separate mechanisms: sustained wind, storm surge, inland flooding from rainfall, and tornadoes embedded in outer bands. Historically, storm surge and inland flooding kill far more people than wind.
How severity is rated
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Data and verification
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Timeline and sources
Officially recorded
An official record exists from IFRC. That confirms the event was recorded; figures quoted from news reports are not confirmed by it.
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· received · event time 13 Aug 2026, 00:00 UTCFirst report Humanitarian agency report
First recorded from IFRC.
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· receivedSource revised Humanitarian agency report
IFRC revised its report: "PHL: Cyclone - 08-2026 - Philippines Southwest Monsoon enhanced by Tropical Cyclones Maymay and Dolphin" became "Philippines: Southwest Monsoon enhanced by Tropical Cyclones Maymay and Dolphin, 2026".
Times are when this site received each report, in UTC; the event time is shown where the source gave one. Copies of one syndicated story count as one report.
Conditions at the time
Light rain of 1.3 mm was recorded, and the temperature peaked at 29°C, and winds reached 45 km/h.
Weather reanalysis for this location and date via Open-Meteo.