By NITZ ARANCON
Correspondent .
THE Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) yesterday said it was expecting as many as seven more storms to enter Philippine territory until December.
The forecast came even as Pagasa spotted a potential storm brewing outside Mindanao. The low pressure area is hovering over the Pacific Ocean, east of Mindanao, and is expected to enter the Philippine area either today or tomorrow.
Luz Mercado, a weather specialist at Pagasa’s Mindanao station in El Salvador, Misamis Oriental, said the weather system would be called “Paeng” by the state weather bureau if it intensifies into a storm.
Exactly how Mindanao would be affected by the weather system remains unclear at presstime, according to Mercado, but there’s a big chance that it would turn into a storm.
Yesterday’s rains here came in the wake of the onset of the wind direction transition. Mercado said the habagat or southwest monsoon is being replaced by the cold northeastern winds or the hanging amihan.
Mercado said during this period, the intertropical convergence zone would spawn low pressure areas that could develop into storms.
She said Pagasa was expecting at least five to as many as seven storms to hit the country between this month and December.
“Basta panahon na gani sa ITCZ, magtapok nianang panahona ang mga nagkatagkatag nga mga panganod, mag-convergence sila ug ma-develop dayon sa pagka LPA. Og ma-develop na ang LPA, ma-develop pud dayon ang tropical depression,” Mercado explained.
Pagasa expects the southwest monsoon to be replaced by the northeast monsoon before the end of September.
By November up to March, Mindanao and other parts of the country would experience the full effects of the hanging amihan, and the storms that would come with it, she said.
“Magsugod na gani ang hanging amihan, mapadpad padulong dinhi sa southern hemisphere ang mga dag-om gikan sa northern hemisphere. Ma-o nga mga magdaghan ang formation sa clouds sa southern hemisphere. Mao nang kon dunay ma-develop nga typhoon, dili gyud makalikay ang Mindanao, Southern Luzon ug Visayas sa mga bagyo,” Mercado said.
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