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Weather Today – December 14, 2015 | Typhoon “Nona” to make landfall tonight

Despite the busy days of preparing for the Christmas celebration, PAGASA alerts the public to monitor the weather as well. At 7:00AM today, the eye of typhoon “Nona” was last spotted at 135 kilometers east of Catarman, Northern Samar. Packing winds of up to 150 kilometers per hour and gustiness of up to 185 kilometers per hour, Nona is expected to move west at 17 kilometers per hour.

If Nona maintains speed and direction, it will possibly be at its closest distance to Northern Samar by early afternoon today. The typhoon will then make landfall over Sorsogon early tonight. After hitting the landmass, it will cross Albay province and may head towards Burias Island.

As Nona approaches the land, more areas were put under Public Storm Warning Signals (PSWS).

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Areas under Signal Numbers 3 and 2 are alerted against possible flash floods, landslides and storm surges of up to 4 meters.

Residents of Samar provinces, Sorsogon, Albay, Catanduanes, Camarines Sur, Leyte, Masbate, Romblon, Marinduque, Camarines Norte, Southern Quezon and the islands of Ticao, Biliran and Burias must prepare for stormy weather with rough to very rough sea condition. Rains with gusty winds are expected over Metro Manila, Southern Leyte, Northern Cebu, Northern Negros Occidental, Capiz, Aklan, Mindoro, Batangas, Cavite, Laguna, Rizal, the rest of Quezon, Dinagat and the islands of Bantayan, Camotes, Lubang, Polillo and Siargao.

Meanwhile, cloudy skies with light to moderate rains and gusty winds may be experienced over the rest of Visayas and Mindanao, while Cagayan Valley may have light rains due to the “Amihan”. The rest of Luzon will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains.

Gale Warning is also up over the eastern seaboards of Central Luzon and the northern and eastern seaboards of Northern Luzon. Fishing boats and other small seacraft are not allowed to venture into the sea as rough to very rough sea conditions with wave height reaching 4.5 meters may be observed.

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Meanwhile, another weather disturbance was spotted outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR). According to PAGASA, the Low Pressure Area (LPA) is still too far to affect the country.