Two tropical cyclones could enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) after the next three days, the state weather bureau said Thursday.
At a Laging Handa public briefing, PAGASA Administrator Undersecretary Vicente Malano said in the next three days, no tropical cyclone was forecast to enter PAR.
“We are, however, expecting that after three days, a tropical cyclone will enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility,” Malano said.
“The characteristics of these two tropical cyclones are similar to weather disturbances ‘Caloy’ and ‘Domeng,’ which entered PAR recently. Domeng headed towards the northern part of the country while the other one traversed the direction going to China,” he added.
PAGASA has said the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) will bring inclement weather over Southern Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
It said Metro Manila and the rest of the country would have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms.
The La Niña phenomenon will bring scattered rainfalls in several parts of the country and is expected to last until the end of this year, Malano of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Thursday.
He said frequent rainfall will likely prevail in parts of Mindanao, Eastern Visayas, as well as Central and Eastern Luzon due to the La Niña episode.
In the last few days, Malano said the low-pressure area has brought rains in parts of the Zamboanga Peninsula and Northern Mindanao, especially in Cagayan de Oro City.
Scattered rain showers and thunderstorms are likewise expected to persist in parts of Eastern Visayas, Central Philippines, Bicol Region, Palawan, and Mindanao.
“This is because of the LPA inside the ITCZ (Intertropical Convergence Zone) and it is expected that we will continue to experience it in the presence of the so-called La Niña. And this La Niña phenomenon is expected until the end of this year,” Malano said.
Light to moderate rains will most likely prevail in Visayas, Bicol Region, Palawan, and other parts of Eastern Mindanao, he added.
So far, four typhoons have entered the country’s area of responsibility this year.
Malano said about 11 to 14 more typhoons will enter the PAR before the end of the year.
“Most likely typhoons will hit land towards the end of the year and we will experience stronger typhoons during the last quarter of the year,” he added.