MANILA, Philippines — Typhoon Gardo is now outside the Philippine area of responsibility Tuesday night, state weather bureau PAGASA said.
“Gardo” left the PAR at 6 p.m.
It slightly strengthened before it left PAR. “Gardo” packed maximum sustained winds of 180 kilometers per hour from the previous 170 kilometers per hour near the center, and gustiness of up to 245 kilometers per hour from earlier’s 210 kilometers per hour.
“Gardo” did not make landfall.
Although the typhoon is already out of PAR, monsoon rains are expected to prevail over most of western Luzon starting Thursday and will continue to persist until Saturday. Metro Manila will also start experiencing monsoon rains on Friday.
PAGASA is also monitoring a low pressure area in the West Philippine Sea east of Hainan in China, which is bringing the southwest monsoon or habagat and another LPA outside PAR, which earlier was just a cloud cluster in Mindanao. — Philstar.com intern Christian De Lano Deiparine