MANILA - The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) on Thursday said it has prepared for a brewing storm that may enter the country this weekend. The NDRRMC, in a statement, said its operations center will remain under red alert for the approaching low pressure area. READ: New storm threatens to form before New Year: PAGASA "As early as now, the DILG has alerted the LGUs concerned to take the necessary preparations especially in the recently affected communities by TS Urduja and TY Vinta," the statement read. "The public is advised not to discount weather advisories and warnings especially if there is a call for pre-emptive and force evacuation." Relief and search, rescue, and retrieval operations continue for typhoon-stricken communities, it added. The NDRRMC said the LPA is expected to enter the Philippine area of responsibility between Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, according to PAGASA. Philippines braces for brewing New Year storm
Looks like the track will be very similar to the last one but as of now with be only a tropical depression.
Had a little rain fall here before, maybe you would like to drop on over and explain to the Wife the difference between a Tropical Depression (Aussie Sun shower) and a Typhoon, to which she just came screaming in here telling me we are having a Typhoon... I love the 'Chicken Little attitude' here with the ''Sky is Falling'' each time they hear a sprinkle of rain on the Nipa roof! jeje Thanks mate; I was just looking for an update on this to appease the Wife that we will survive this latest onslaught! PMSL
Latest update on the track of this TD,looks like it will pass slightly closer to us than first predicted. So another winters day tomorrow brrrrrr. Signal no 1 is up now so no ferries. Looks like the worst of it will be around 5pm tue.
So it seems this thing passed to the north over night and sped up so thats the end of that. Lets hope for some sun.
Got a pretty good one last night (early hours Weds Morning around 3am/4am) here in Maluay, Zamboanguita. Earlier in the night I heard the thunder out over Cebu way and thought not much of it until this morning when it came down hard and fast! It went over pretty quickly and the lightning strikes were very close and many! The closest one put the power out instantly and shook the entire house with lots of smalls strings of lightning dancing around outside our window. I would say by the sounds from the creek they got good rain up in the mountain also. The Daughter thought it was the ticket out of her first day back at School, NO BANANA! lol
jesus cristo brian, i'm only a couple of shouts away from u and ya, wasn't that something!. i got under the bed. we never lost power so the lightening musta hit something by you.... i measured 1.98'' of rain. what happened in ur neck ó the woods, davyL? davyL's our local weatherman https://www.wunderground.com/weather/ph/dumaguete
Mate it was 1, 2, 3 naknak was under the covers beside her Mama and they were both cowering! lol It must have rained very well in the mountains from the sound of the water rushing down the creek compared to the rain we received. The one thing that amazes me, I grew up on the Sunshine Coast back in QLD (Australia) and I am use to wild storms, Cyclones, bad Storm Cells that bring Tornado like winds etc, but what amazes me about the Weather here in the Philippines is the THUNDER! It is HEAVY! It RESONATES through the ground! It seems to roll on forever, you hear it again, then again, then again and on and on... In Australia it is BANG! BOOM! That's it... It doesn't shake you fillings by getting up close and personal like here. Last year I was standing in my doorway, BIL standing in Papa's doorway which is next to ours, next minute KABOOM! FLASH! And then there was horizontal lightning dancing up and down the walkway outside our doors. BIL looked at me, I at at him, I asked him; "Did you see that?" And he just nodded his head in disbelief at what we both just witnessed. Lightning hit the Bamboo grove around 20 meters from us exploding one of the pieces of Bamboo, and it dispersed with horizontal lightning bolts dancing all around us. We both quietly retreated back inside... hehe
