Tag: weather disturbance

PAGASA: Cloud cluster east of PAR may become LPA or tropical disturbance

(Eagle News)–The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is monitoring a cloud cluster east of the Philippine Area of Responsibility that may become a tropical disturbance or a low pressure area. In a recent weather update, weather forecaster Raymond Ordinario said the southwest monsoon was affecting Palawan and Visayas. Batanes, Cagayan and the Batanes Island Group are expected to have  cloudy skies with scattered rains. He said the rest of Luzon including Metro Manila […]

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Weather disturbance forecast to enter PAR over the weekend intensifies into a typhoon

(Eagle News) — The weather disturbance that was forecast to enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility in the following days has intensified into a typhoon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said once “Kammuri” enters PAR possibly between Saturday and Sunday morning, it  will be named “Tisoy.” PAGASA said a Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal Number 1 may be raised over the eastern portion of Bicol Region-Eastern Visayas area on Sunday. Maritime travel may also […]

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Weather disturbance monitored by PAGASA intensifies into severe tropical storm

“Wutip” still outside PAR, though (Eagle News)–The weather disturbance being monitored by the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration has intensified. In a weather update around 5 a.m., PAGASA said “Wutip” was now a severe tropical storm as of 3 a.m. So far though, “Wutip” was still outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility, 2775 kilometers east of Mindanao, packing maximum sustained winds of up to 105 kilometers per hour, and gustiness of up to […]

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DSWD on alert for first weather disturbance this year

QUEZON CITY, Jan. 9 – The Field offices of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) along the path of Tropical Depression Auring are now on alert status to monitor the occurrence of this first weather disturbance in the country this year. Based on the predictive analytics for humanitarian response of the DSWD-Disaster Response  Operations Monitoring and Information Center (DROMIC),  some 976,704 families or 4,883,546 persons are exposed to areas that are highly to very highly susceptible to landslide or flooding […]

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8 more provinces in Mindanao placed storm signal no.1 due to TD ‘Caloy’

MANILA, March 21 (PNA) — Eight more provinces in Mindanao are now under public storm warning signal no. 1 as tropical depression “Caloy” has slightly accelerated as it moves closer to Surigao del Sur and Davao Oriental area, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said on Friday. Earlier, PAGASA raised public storm warning no. 1 in four other provinces in Mindanao. In an interview, PAGASA weather forecaster Gener Quitlong said as of […]

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