By Dean Aubrey Caratiquet
After intensifying into a tropical depression earlier Sunday, Pilandok intensified and underwent several changes in its trajectory overnight.
In PAGASA’s 11:00 a.m. update, Pilandok was last located 1,160 km east of Extreme Northern Luzon, packing maximum sustained winds of 55 kph and gustiness of up to 70 kph as it is moving almost stationarily.
Due to its distance from the Philippine landmass, no wind signals or gale warnings were issued by PAGASA. However, the state weather bureau advised of very rough seas over the western seaboard of Babuyan Islands, with waves reaching up to 4.5 meters high.
Fisherfolk and owners of small vessels are likewise advised not to venture out to open waters due to rough seas over the following coastal waters:
- Up to 4.0 m: The seaboard of Batanes, Ilocos Norte, and northern Ilocos Sur; the northern seaboard of Babuyan Islands.
- Up to 3.5 m: The seaboard of northern La Union and Zambales; the western seaboards of Pangasinan and Bataan; and the remaining seaboard of Ilocos Sur.
- Up to 3.0 m: The western seaboards of Cavite, Batangas, Lubang Islands, northern Occidental Mindoro, and Calamian Islands; the southern seaboard of Bataan; the northern and western seaboards of Kalayaan Islands.
Tropical Depression Pilandok is forecast to slowly move northwestward for the next 36 hours before turning north northwestward for the remainder of the forecast period.
PAGASA, likewise, added that the weather system is less likely to make landfall over any part of the country and will remain distant from the Philippine landmass—but may intensify into a tropical storm on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the state weather bureau is currently monitoring two other weather disturbances outside the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR).
As of 8:00 a.m., a low pressure area (LPA) intensified and developed into a tropical depression. It was last located 545 km west northwest of Itbayat, Batanes, packing maximum sustained winds of 45 kph and gustiness of up to 55 kph as it is moving almost stationarily.
An LPA was also spotted 3,035 km east of eastern Visayas, with a medium chance of becoming a tropical depression in the next 24 hours.
These weather systems are expected to enhance the effects of southwest monsoon (habagat), which continues to bring rainfall over several regions in the Philippines.
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