Domeng intensifies, to bring rains until weekend

MANILA, Philippines — Tropical Depression Domeng has intensified while maintaining a north-northwest movement, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said.

As of 3 p.m. yesterday, the center of Domeng was estimated at 675 kilometers east of Casiguran, Quezon with maximum sustained winds of 55 kilometers per hour near the center and gustiness of up to 65 kph.

Domeng is forecast to move west at 15 kph. It is not expected to make landfall, but will enhance the southwest monsoon, which will bring moderate to heavy rains over Western Visayas and western part of Calabarzon and Mimaropa today. It will dump rains over  Metro Manila and the rest of the western part of Luzon over the weekend.

PAGASA warned concerned residents to brace for possible flash floods and landslides and coordinate with their local disaster risk reduction and management offices.

“Fisherfolk and those with small seacraft are advised not to venture into the eastern and western seaboards of Luzon,” the state weather bureau said in an advisory.