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THE National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council placed its rescue personnel on blue alert Tuesday evening after Typhoon “Goni” entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility and was locally renamed “Ineng.”
NDRRMC Executive Director Alexander Pama said half of the agency’s personnel were ordered to stand by for emergencies while local disaster councils were advised to monitor the weather due to the rains brought by typhoon-enhanced “habagat”.
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Ineng, the ninth tropical cyclone to affect the country this year, will enhance the southwest monsoon and will affect Visayas and Mindanao by Wednesday.
The storm is expected to affect the western part of Luzon, including Metro Manila by Thursday until weekend.
Pagasa forecaster Manny Mendoza said typhoon Ineng entered the country at 12 noon Tuesday and was located at 1,420 kilometers east of Aparri, Cagayan packed with maximum sustained winds of 170 kilometers per hour near the center and gustiness of up to 205 kph.
He said the typhoon is forecast to move west-northwest at 20 kph, but is not expected to affect the country until Wednesday when the typhoon is expected to strengthen the southwest monsoon and bring rains over Visayas and Mindanao.
By Thursday until weekend, rains would be experienced in western part of Northern, Central and Southern Luzon, including Metro Manila, he said.
He added the typhoon has high chance to make a landfall in extreme Northern Luzon or in the provinces of Batanes or in Calayan by Friday because of the presence of a high pressure area that blocks the movement of the typhoon.
However, he noted that if the HPA recedes, the typhoon may not make landfall and just follow the track of the previous typhoon Hanna.
He also said that by Thursday or Friday the state weather bureau would raise public storm warning signals over the provinces of Northern Luzon as the typhoon moves closer to the area.
Mendoza noted that if the typhoon maintain its present speed and movement, it will exit PAR by Saturday morning and head toward Japan.
Courtesy of manilastandardtoday.com
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