Typhoon Glenda is expected to make landfall in Luzon on Wednesday, July 16 as a typhoon category. This puts central Luzon or northern Luzon in the direct path of Glenda (international name Rammasun).
After briefly having weakened to a tropical depression, Glenda (Rammasun) strengthened back to a tropical storm early Sunday morning local time as it prepared to enter Philippine Area of ResponsibilIty (PAR) Sunday night or Monday morning.
State bureau weather forecasters said the tropical depression, identified as “09W” by the Hawaii-based Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC), is capable of developing into a typhoon while it is over the Pacific Ocean.
PAGASA said the weather disturbance is some 2,000 kilometers east of Southern Luzon and moving west-northwest at 20 kilometers per hour.
Once it entered PAR, the tropical cyclone Rammasun will be named “Glenda”.
entered Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR)
Accuweather.com said “impacts from Rammasun are expected to begin in the eastern Philippines as early as Tuesday, local time, but significant impacts will not arrive until Tuesday night, Wednesday and Wednesday night.”
“The greatest impacts are expected across the northern Philippines,” it added. “If the storm reaches typhoon strength, locals in the Philippines will need to brace for damaging winds and heavy, torrential rainfall that could lead to mudslides.”
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