MANILA, Philippines – Typhoon “Frank” (international name Fengshen) finally left the country late Monday night after wreaking massive destruction in the Visayas and Central Luzon and leaving about a thousand peole dead.
With this development, good weather condition is expected to prevail over the country in the next three days, the weather bureau said yesterday.
Weather branch chief Nathaniel Cruz of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said no tropical cyclone is likely to affect the country until Friday.
“Since there is no typhoon, we don’t expect strong monsoon in any part of the country,” he said. ”But scattered rain showers and thunderstorms are expected in the Visayas and Mindanao.”
In its advisory, Pagasa said the western sections of Luzon and Visayas would experience cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms brought by moderate to occasionally strong southwesterly wind flow.
The rest of the country would be partly cloudy to cloudy with isolated rain showers and thunderstorms, mostly in the afternoon or evening, Pagasa said.
It added that the coastal waters in Luzon and western Visayas would be moderate to rough.
Elsewhere, winds would be light to moderate blowing from the southwest with slight to moderate seas.
Frank, the sixth and strongest tropical cyclone to hit the country this year, left nearly 300 people dead and hundreds still missing.
Several provinces were placed under a state of calamity as towns remain flooded in the aftermath of the typhoon.
Pagasa said 20 tropical cyclones are expected to enter the country this year.