The Philippine authorities elevated this Saturday to the rank of super typhoon to tropical storm Man-yi (Pépito, in the Asian country) and They evacuated more than 100,000 peoplebefore the sixth cyclone which threatens the country in less than a month.
The Philippine Meteorological Agency (PAGASA) warned in its Saturday morning bulletin that “Pepito” It has become a super typhoon as it moves towards the Bicol Peninsula, in the southeast corner of the island of Luzon, the largest in the country.
According to PAGASA forecasts, the super typhoon will pass over the coast of Cantaduanes (Bicol) on Saturday night or early Sunday morning, with sustained winds of 195 km/h, and will move towards the northwest of the country, across the Ilocos region. .
Several areas in the Bicol region have already been flooded this Saturday due to storms caused by the approaching super typhoon, while authorities evacuate residents, the ABS-CBN network reported.
The Bicol Civil Defense estimates that more than 177,000 residents have already been evacuated due to the risk of landslides and flooding.
Likewise, Philippine authorities have ordered all ships to return to dock on the affected coasts.
This Friday, the Philippines put parts of the north and center of the country on alert due to the advance of Man-yi, the sixth cyclone to hit the archipelago in less than a month, an “unusual” situation according to NASA.
Although the Philippines usually experiences around 20 cyclones per year, the country has experienced a rapid succession of storms in recent weeks that have claimed the lives of more than 160 people and forced the preventive evacuation of tens of thousands of others.
The NASA Earth Observatory, the organization dedicated to producing NASA publications, shared Thursday “a rare satellite view” of four active storms simultaneously in the Pacific Ocean on November 11.
These are Yinxing, Toraji and Usagi, which made landfall last Thursday in the northern Philippines, as well as Man-Yi. This is “the first time since records began in 1951 that so many storms coexist in the Pacific basin in November,” NASA said, citing the Japan Meteorological Agency.
Added to these four storms are Trami and Kong-rey, which hit the Philippines at the end of October and Between them they caused 162 deaths.as well as a trail of destruction.
