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MANILA, Philippines – Batanes is currently experiencing “damaging hurricane-to-storm-force winds,” while the Babuyan Islands are experiencing “strong breezes to near-gale conditions” due to severe tropical storm “Siony,” the Administration Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services of the Philippines (Pagasa) said on Friday.
According to the severe weather bulletin issued by Pagasa at 2pm, Batanes remains under Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal (TCWS) No. 2, while Babuyan is now only under TCWS No. 1.
“Areas under the tropical cyclone # 2 wind signal are currently experiencing damaging gale-to-storm winds, while those under TCWS # 1 are currently experiencing strong breeze to near-gale conditions,” said Pagasa.
Pagasa said that “the passage of ‘Siony’ will bring light to moderate rains with sometimes heavy rains over Batanes and the Babuyan Islands.”
“Floods (including flash floods) and rain-induced landslides can occur during heavy or prolonged rains, especially in areas identified on geohazard maps as highly or very highly susceptible to these threats,” added the meteorological office. .
According to Pagasa, the weather disturbance is forecast to move west-northwest and pass over the sea off the southern coast of Taiwan in 12 hours.
Siony is expected to leave the Philippines Area of Responsibility (PAR) on Friday evening. It will then turn southwest on Saturday morning over the sea to southwest Taiwan and move over the Western Philippine Sea.
At 1 pm, the center of Siony was sighted 95 kilometers northwest of Itbayat, Batanes. It is moving west-northwest at 20 kilometers per hour and has maximum sustained winds of 95 kilometers per hour near the center and gusts of up to 115 kilometers per hour.
Pagasa said the tropical cyclone is forecast to maintain its strength over the next 12 hours, then weaken significantly due to “increasingly unfavorable conditions associated with increased northeast winds” over the Western Philippine Sea. Then it can be downgraded to a low pressure area on Sunday afternoon.
Meanwhile, an area of low pressure outside PAR was last sighted 1,075 east of Mindanao. It is forecast to move generally to the west-northwest or northwest and may enter PAR this Friday afternoon.
Pagasa said the LPA is heading into eastern Visayas and will likely arrive in the area by Saturday afternoon or evening. This weather disturbance can turn into a tropical depression within the next 48 hours and will be called “Tonyo.”
EDV
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