Baguio News
& Weather Updates
First the Weather...
Plan your vacation better with a detailed forecast of local weather conditions. Here is my favorite weather sticker!
It delivers Baguio weather conditions, tem-perature, pressure, and wind information. It tells the time, changes colors depending on weather severity (the blue bar turns red to indicate importance), and allows users to instantly click over to detailed forecast information, radar images, and travel information. Should the weather conditions being reported in this sticker indicate severe weather or weather warnings, the blue bar the top becomes red to draw attention.
... Then the local Baguio News (just scroll down to view more)
Why is Baguio Always in the News?
As the seat of the Cordillera Administrative Region, the news desks of the major daily papers send stories and photos about the WHOLE region from here.
And this is news from a really large land area totalling 20,335.9 square kilometers (the City of Pines comprises a tiny 57.5 square kilometers or a mere .28% of the whole).
So every little accident, minor landslide, or petty crime in the Cordilleras, even if the incident occured some 400km away, is datelined "Baguio." Reading the papers, one would think our laid-back little town is disaster-prone and crime-ridden! Which is, of course, the complete opposite.
Residents and city officials would argue that we are is a "highly urbanized city" but that is just a technical definition the Philippine government in 1978 used to classify the city as to secure a larger share in national taxes, most probably in aid of tourism.
In my opinion, it is highly urbanized in terms of the existence of concrete and glass buildings and the availability of basic utilities such as electricity, indoor plumbing, internet access and all the comforts of modern life. We have large malls, too!
But based on attitude, Baguio remains a small town, where everybody knows everybody, where the pace is relaxed and life can be oh so graceful.
And since it is a small town, any news is big news!
At Baguio Insider
Read the truth behind the 2004 scare that devastated Baguio's economy
Practical tips for weathering
chilly days and nights in the Philippines' Summer Capital
On 16 February 2008 three
(3) buildings in the densely populated UB Compound are
hit by a raging fire -- and this is their third fire in 19 years
Find out how the influx of Korean students and tourists has affected the City of Pines
Finally, becase it is one of the most popular vacation spots in the Philippines, the whole country is always on the look-out for news about Baguio. And since it is a small town, any news is big news!
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