Widebody; Low Wing; 2 Turbojet Eng
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Situational Awareness; Distraction; Confusion; Workload
ATC Issue All Types; Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence
General None Reported / Taken
Weather; Airport; Procedure
The METAR at Clark was reported as 16003 6000 -RA SCT030 OVC090 and the next hourly METAR was 23002 6000 -RA SCT030 OVC090. We landed at approximately ten minutes after the last METAR from a VOR Approach; as it was the only functioning approach at the airport. The level of intensity of the rain when we landed was quite possibly the most severe that I had encountered in twenty-five years of flying. In the last 200 feet of the approach the PAPIs were barely visible and the centerline of the runway was extremely difficult to see due to the intensity of the precipitation. The heavy rain was never reported to us by Tower. This airport lacks the resources to report current field conditions or maybe they just don't care. Either way it is totally unacceptable and unsafe.
A pilot landed at Angeles City; (Clark) Philippines in what was described at the most intense rain he had ever seen just ten minutes after the Tower reported light rain with no more recent verbal updates.