Tropical Cyclone Inday Tracker
11 p.m., Sept. 8
Tropical storm Inday (international name: Muifa) has decelerated. It was last spotted 885 kilometers (km) east of Central Luzon with maximum sustained winds of up to 75 kilometers per hour (kph) and gustiness of up to 90 kph. It is moving westward at 10 kph.
Apart from the rain showers that its trough may bring in the Bicol region, Samar provinces, Calabarzon, and MIMAROPA, the weather disturbance remained less likely to cause heavy rains in the country.
5 p.m., Sept. 8
Tropical storm Inday (international name: Muifa) was last located 1,045 kilometers (km) east of northern Luzon with maximum sustained winds of 75 kilometers per hour (kph) and gustiness of up to 90 kph. It is moving westward at 20 kph.
Latest forecast scenarios show that hoisting of wind signals remained less likely. The weather disturbance’s trough, on the other hand, is now affecting and bringing cloudy skies with scattered rains in eastern Visayas.
Although less likely to bring heavy rains across the country, Inday may bring moderate to rough seas over the seaboards of extreme northern Luzon.
11 a.m., Sept. 8
Tropical storm Inday (international name: Muifa) accelerated westward as it moves over the Philippine sea east of northern Luzon, the state weather bureau said.
The weather disturbance was last spotted 1,130 kilometers (km) east of Central Luzon or 1,165 km east of northern Luzon. It has maximum sustained winds of 75 kilometers per hour (kph) and gustiness of up to 90 kph. It is moving westward at 20 kph.
Inday may reach severe tropical storm category within 24 hours. The possibility of rapid intensification is not ruled out, but it remained less likely to directly affect the country’s weather condition.
5 a.m., Sept. 8
Tropical storm Inday maintained its strength, said the state weather bureau on Thursday morning. It was last spotted 1,215 kilometers (km) east of Central Luzon with maximum sustained winds of 75 kilometers per hour.
Although less likely to directly affect the country’s weather condition, PAGASA warned that this weather disturbance may bring rough seas over the seabords of northern Luzon beginning Saturday, Sept. 10.
Inday is expected to exit the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR) on Sunday, Sept. 11 or Monday, Sept. 12. It entered PAR on Wednesday, Sept. 7 at 7 p.m.