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MANILA, Philippines – Severe Tropical Storm Siony weakened slightly as it approached the northwestern boundary of the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR), the state meteorological office said Friday afternoon.
The latest severe weather bulletin from the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said that at 4:00 pm, Siony was last seen 145 kilometers northwest of Itbayat, Batanes.
It now has maximum sustained winds of 95 kilometers per hour (kph) and gusts of up to 115 kph. It is moving west northwest at a speed of 20 kph and can leave PAR on Friday night.
As of now, only Batanes remains under a tropical cyclone No. 1 wind signal, as all other wind signals have been removed.
Siony is expected to maintain its strength in the next 24 hours, but may dissipate in the next few days, as cold winds from the northeast surface wind flow will make conditions unfavorable for the storm.
Still, strong winds will affect Batanes, which means that gale warnings over the coastlines of the extreme northern Luzon area plus the entire Cagayan coastline, and the northern area of Ilocos Norte would remain.
Meanwhile, the LPA that is being monitored by Pagasa entered PAR and was last seen 955 kilometers east of Visayas. State meteorologists said the LPA has a high probability of turning into a tropical depression in the next few days.
If it becomes a cyclone, it will be given the local name “Tonyo”. But regardless of whether the LPA intensifies into a storm, it is expected to bring rain over Visayas and Mindanao over the weekend when its depression makes landfall.
EDV
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