ILOILO CITY — Torrential rains enhanced by the Southwest Monsoon (Habagat) inundated 56 barangays in Iloilo City on Monday night, forcing hundreds of families to flee their homes and seek shelter. The downpour intensified at 8:10 p.m., prompting the city’s disaster monitoring sensors to record extreme hourly rainfall rates and issue a Violet Alert, the highest level for extreme torrential rain. Average rainfall rates reached 70 millimeters per hour, with cumulative rainfall peaking at 160 and 165 mm over six hours, according to the city’s monitoring data. READ: Habagat to persist over parts of Luzon, Visayas Tuesday The heavy rains quickly […]...Keep on reading: 479 families flee floods in Iloilo City