Courtesy: PAGASA 

MANILA — The two low pressure areas (LPA) around the country may form into tropical cyclones, state weather bureau PAGASA said Monday. 

The LPA inside the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR) was spotted 830 kilometers east northeast of Luzon’s northern tip at 2 p.m. This system is moving westward and will be assigned the local name Ferdie when it forms into a tropical depression, PAGASA said in a Facebook post. 

The other LPA was located 2,435 km east of Eastern Visayas. It is forecast to track northwestward and may enter the PAR as a tropical cyclone by the weekend, according to forecaster Robert Badrina. 

It will be assigned the local name Gener once inside the PAR.

Badrina added that the potential Gener could enhance the southwest monsoon or habagat that would dump rains over Southern Luzon, Visayas, and parts of Mindanao this weekend.

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Courtesy: PAGASA 

Apart from these potential storms this week, two more weather disturbances are possible in the third week of September – one with moderate chance over the northern Philippine Sea and the other with low chance over the northern West Philippine Sea.

PAGASA earlier predicted 2 or 3 storms could form inside or enter the Philippine area this September.

ENTENG & LA NIÑA

At the start of September, tropical cyclone Enteng formed east of Visayas, bringing torrential rains which led to massive flooding in Northern Samar, Naga City, and Rizal. It made landfall over Aurora and rapidly intensified into a super typhoon once over the West Philippine Sea.

It left 20 dead, 20 injured, and 26 missing in its wake. 

Enteng affected almost 2.8 million individuals across 10 regions. Almost 29,000 people remain in 365 evacuation centers, according to the situational report from the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council Monday morning.

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Cumulative damage to agriculture and infrastructure has reached nearly P1.4 billion.

The government provided almost P225 million assistance to 222,000 families, the NDRRMC reported.

Meanwhile, La Niña has a 66 percent chance of forming this September-October-November 2024 season, PAGASA said.

It may persist through the first quarter of 2025.

La Niña brings above-normal rainfall to the country with tropical cyclones forming closer to the Philippine landmass. The eastern section of the country will bear the brunt of this climate pattern.

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