Central Luzon-Quezon braces for Typhoon Rolly

Typhoon Rolly enters the Philippine Area of Responsibility and would likely hit Central Luzon-Quezon area, Pagasa said on its severe weather bulletin issued Thursday night.

At 10:00 PM last night, the eye of Typhoon Rolly was located based on all available data at 1,280 km East of Central Luzon.

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It is moving Westward at 20 km/h with maximum sustained winds of 120 km/h near the center and gustiness of up to 150 km/h.

Typhoon Rolly is forecast to move west-southwestward or southwestward tomorrow until Saturday evening. Afterwards, the typhoon will turn more west-northwestward as it moves over the sea off the coast of Bicol Region towards the eastern coast of Central Luzon-Quezon area. On the forecast track, the center of the eye of Rolly is likely to make landfall over the Central Luzon-Quezon area on Sunday evening or Monday morning.

Rolly was upgraded to typhoon category at 8:00 PM today and has rapidly intensified over the last 24 hours. The typhoon is forecast to continuously intensify over the Philippine Sea and is likely to make landfall at peak intensity of 165-185 km/h.

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Central Luzon-Quezon braces for Typhoon Rolly

The trough of the typhoon will bring light to moderate with at times heavy rains over Bicol Region, Eastern Visayas, Central Visayas, and Caraga. The rainbands of the typhoon will likely bring rains over Bicol Region and the eastern section of Northern and Central Luzon beginning on Saturday or Sunday.

No locality is currently under Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal (TCWS) #1. However, in anticipation of the arrival of strong breeze to near-gale conditions due to “ROLLY”, TCWS #1 may be raised over several provinces in the Bicol Region as early as tomorrow. Given that it is likely for this typhoon to continue intensifying prior to landfall, the highest possible TCWS that will be raised throughout the passage of this typhoon will be TCWS #3 or #4 (associated with destructive to very destructive typhoon-force winds).

Meanwhile, the Tropical Depression outside the PAR has intensified into Tropical Storm “ATSANI”. Its center was estimated at 2,430 km East of Mindanao.  However, it is less likely to bring severe weather over any locality of the country over the next 3 days. Once inside the PAR, “ATSANI” will be assigned the domestic name “SIONY”.

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