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Dodong out of Luzon island, now over Batanes


(Updated 9:43 a.m.) Typhoon Dodong (Noul) exited the Luzon mainland early Monday, according to state weather agency PAGASA, but not before leaving two people dead in its wake.

As of 8 a.m., PAGASA said Dodong was estimated to be over Basco, Batanes.

 

TC Update: as of 8AM today 11 May 2015, Typhoon #DodongPH was located over Basco, Batanes (20.6°N, 121.9°E).

Posted by Dost_pagasa on Sunday, May 10, 2015
 
 
 
 

 
Dodong, which weakened after making landfall Sunday, packed maximum sustained winds of 160 kph near the center and gustiness of up to 195 kph, and is forecast to move north at 19 kph, PAGASA said in its 5 a.m. update earlier.
 
By Tuesday morning, it projected Dodong to be 455 km north-northeast of Basco, Batanes. By Wednesday morning, Dodong is expected to be 1,230 km northeast of Basco, Batanes and outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR).

Remaining storm signals

Dodong's departure from the Philippines will nevertheless still bring heavy rain to parts of Northern Luzon, hence storm signals were raised in these areas.

As of 5 a.m., Storm Signal no. 3 was hoisted over Batanes and the Babuyan and Calayan group of islands. Storm Signal no. 2 was raised over Northern Cagayan, and Storm Signal no. 1 was raised over the rest of Cagayan, Apayao, and Ilocos Norte.
 
PAGASA said stormy weather with rough to very rough seas may be expected over Batanes, Calayan and Babuyan islands while Cagayan, Apayao and Ilocos Norte will have rain with gusty winds.
 
Cloudy skies with light to moderate rains and thunderstorms will be experienced over the rest of Northern Luzon, it added.
 
Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms.

Fatalities, blocked roads reported

Two residents from Aparri, Cagayan died of electrocution as Dodong passed through northeastern Luzon on Sunday, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said.

Fallen trees and power cables blocked roads in parts of Cagayan, affecting motorists in areas such as Sta. Ana where Dodong made landfall.

"The typhoon has moved away, but our problem so far is how to fix what was destroyed. The small houses of our poor townmates in coastal areas were badly hit," Darwin Tobias, mayor of Santa Ana town in Cagayan, said in a radio interview, Reuters reported.

More than 3,400 residents from Cagayan and Isabela provinces were moved to evacuation centers in schools, gymnasiums and town halls before the typhoon, officials said.
 
Tobias said some residents from his town started returning to their homes early on Monday when the rains stopped.
 
Despite the destruction wrought by Dodong, it also brought much needed rains to rice and corn farms that had been hit by intense summer heat.
 
"The rains brought by Dodong helped our farmers greatly," said James Geronimo, public information officer of Isabela, the country's top corn producer and the second biggest rice-growing province.
 
An average of 20 typhoons cross the Philippines annually, with the storms becoming fiercer in recent years. More than 8,000 people died or went missing and about a million were made homeless by Yolanda (Haiyan), a category 5 typhoon that struck the central Philippines in 2013, bringing 5-meter high storm surges. —Joel Locsin and Reuters/KG/TJD, GMA News

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