Tropical depression expected to exit PAR on Friday morning
(Eagle News) — Tropical Depression “Basyang” continues to move toward southern Palawan and may make landfall there tonight, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said.
PAGASA said that as of 7 a.m., the center of “Basyang” was found 255 kilometers south of Cuyo, Palawan or 310 kilometers west southwest of Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental.
The tropical depression is packing maximum sustained winds of 45 kilometers per hour near the center and gustiness of up to 60 kilometers per hour.
It is forecast to move west southwest at 26 kilometers per hour.
On Thursday morning, “Basyang” is expected to be 190 kilometers west southwest of Puerto Princesa, Palawan.
On Friday morning, it is expected to exit PAR.
Signal Number one remains hoisted over Palawan including the Calamian and Cuyo groups of islands.
“Scattered to widespread moderate to heavy rains will prevail in the next 24 hours over Palawan and Western Visayas,” PAGASA said.
It said “scattered light to moderate with at times heavy rains (are) expected over the rest of Visayas, Bicol Region, Zamboanga Peninsula, Northern Mindanao, and Caraga.”
“Residents of these areas must continue monitoring for updates, take appropriate measures against possible flooding and landslides, and coordinate with their respective local disaster risk reduction and management offices,” PAGASA said.
It added sea travel “remains risky over the seaboards of areas under Tropical Cyclone Warning Signals (TCWS), as well as the seaboards of Northern Luzon and Palawan, the eastern seaboards of Central Luzon and of Visayas and the eastern and western seaboards of Southern Luzon due to the Tropical Depression and the surge of the northeast monsoon.”
