TYPHOON The state-run weather bureau warned that “Jenny” is unlikely to directly impact the nation when it leaves the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) on Thursday afternoon or evening.
However, according to meteorological expert Aldczar Aurelio of the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, the typhoon is expected to make landfall over the southern part of Taiwan early on Thursday.
Jenny is moving westward at 10 kilometers per hour (kph), with maximum sustained winds of 175 kph around the center and gustiness of up to 215 kph, and is estimated to be 140 kilometers north-northwest of Itbayat, Batanes.
Pagasa stated in a 5 a.m. report that Signal No. 3 was still in place over Batanes and Signal No. 2 was over the northern Babuyan Islands, which included the Calayan Islands.
Signal No. 1 is still in place over the remaining Babuyan Islands, the northern part of mainland Cagayan (Santa Ana, Gonzaga, Buguey, Santa Teresita, Lal-Lo, Camalaniugan, Pamplona, Claveria, Ballesteros, Abulug, Allacapan, Sanchez-Mira, Santa Praxedes, Lasam, and Gattaran), the northern part of Apayao (Calanasan
According to Pagasa, Batanes is anticipated to have 100 to 200 millimeters of rainfall from Thursday night to Friday night.
In the coming three days, according to Aurelio, the typhoon will continue to strengthen the southwest monsoon (“habagat”) and deliver sporadic downpours to the western parts of Luzon, including Metro Manila and Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon).
He noted that a gale warning was in effect for the Northern Luzon seaboards’ coastal waters.
