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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:900px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1731450914353OFEL.jpg" style="width:900px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"><span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">PAGASA</span> </span></span></span></div><p>MANILA — Ofel intensified into a typhoon before dawn on Wednesday, as it threatened to bring more rains to northern Luzon shortly after the onslaught of typhoon Nika. </p><p>State weather bureau PAGASA at 5 a.m. raised signal 2 over the eastern portion of mainland Cagayan (Baggao, Peñablanca, Gattaran, Gonzaga, Lal-Lo, Santa Ana) and the eastern portion of Isabela (Maconacon, Divilacan, Palanan), where 62 to 88 kilometer per hour winds were expected in at least 24 hours. </p><p>Signal 1 was also raised over Batanes, Babuyan Islands, the rest of mainland Cagayan, the rest of Isabela, Quirino, Nueva Vizcaya, Apayao, Kalinga, Abra, Mountain Province, the eastern portion of Ifugao (Dilasag, Casiguran), Ilocos Norte, and the northern portion of Aurora (Alfonso Lista, Aguinaldo, Banaue, Mayoyao, Hingyon, Hungduan).</p><p>Signal no. 4 will be the highest wind warning that will be raised during Ofel’s passage.</p><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hvxp8ETsHeo?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><p>At 10 a.m., Typhoon Ofel was spotted 610 kilometers east of Infanta, Quezon, with maximum winds of 120 kph and gusts up to 150 kph. It is moving west northwestward at 20 kph.</p><p>Ofel may intensify further and make landfall over Cagayan or Isabela Thursday afternoon at peak intensity.</p><p>It said Ofel would bring destructive winds, torrential rains, and storm surge during its passage in Northern Luzon.</p><p>Significant damage, flooding, and landslides were expected.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/11/11/nika-ofel-pepito-3-cyclones-may-slice-through-philippine-area-this-week-pagasa-1450">Nika, Ofel, Pepito: 3 cyclones may slice through Philippines this week - PAGASA</a></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>FOLLOWING NIKA&#x27;S TRACK  </strong></div><div><br/></div><p>&quot;It&#x27;s looking like it will follow the track of Nika,&quot; civil defense chief Rueli Rapsing of Cagayan province told AFP. </p><p>&quot;We preemptively evacuated 40,000 people that time, so we could be looking at the same scenario and evacuate 40,000 individuals again,&quot; he said, adding Cagayan officials will decide on it at a meeting on Wednesday.</p><p>Rapsing said the water level of the Cagayan river, the country&#x27;s largest, was four meters above normal, preventing more than 5,000 people who were previously evacuated from returning home.</p><p>He said he also dispatched a search and rescue team to Amulung town after two young men went missing while collecting driftwood from the Cagayan river&#x27;s swollen waters.</p><p>The local government also reported knee-high floods across Santiago, a city of 150,000 people along an upper bank of the Cagayan river.</p><p>In all, the government said it had  <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/regions/2024/11/11/nika-makes-landfall-in-aurora-939"></a><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/regions/2024/11/11/nika-makes-landfall-in-aurora-939">evacuated more than 32,000 people</a></span> from vulnerable areas in the northern Philippines ahead of Nika&#x27;s Monday landfall.</p><p>While the government reported no casualties from Toraji, it said around 15,000 people were still sheltering at mainly government-run evacuation centers on Tuesday.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/regions/2024/11/12/typhoon-nika-evacuees-in-cordillera-told-to-stay-put-ahead-of-ofel-1458">Typhoon Nika evacuees in Cordillera told to stay put ahead of Ofel</a></div><p>The evacuations follow Severe Tropical Storm Kristine, Typhoon Marce and Super Typhoon Leon, which killed a combined 159 people. </p><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Department of Social Welfare and Development has released some P1 billion worth of humanitarian assistance to areas affected by the recent typhoons. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">DSWD Undersecretary Edu Punay said the assistance included family food packs, hygiene kits, and drinking water. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The agency has also provided financial relief to families whose homes were partially or totally destroyed by the typhoons under their Assistance to Individuals In Crisis Situations (AICS).</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Punay admitted that the agency’s response to recent typhoons have taken a toll on the remaining funds of the DSWD, with only about P100 million left for disaster response.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“May natira pa tayo na P100 million standby funds for disaster response, but the good news ay mabilis ang replenishment ng pondo… dahil ang Quick Response Funds ay napakabilis ng paglalabas ng pondo ng Department of Budget and Management in terms of disaster response,” he said.</span></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>PEPITO </strong></div><div><br/></div><p>Meanwhile, tropical storm Man-yi may enter the Philippine area of responsibility as a typhoon on Thursday evening.</p><p>It will be assigned the local name Pepito. </p><p>At 10 a.m. Wednesday, Man-yi was located 1,965 km east of Eastern Visayas, with maximum winds of 65 kph and gusts up to 80 kph. It was moving west southwestward at 30 kph.</p><p>The disturbance may rapidly intensify up to super typhoon strength while moving over the Philippine Sea.</p><p>Man-yi could make landfall over Bicol on Saturday, November 16.</p><p>It may rapidly intensify and even reach super typhoon strength. The potential typhoon may be near or at peak intensity during landfall.</p><p>About 20 big storms and typhoons hit the archipelago nation or its surrounding waters each year, killing scores of people and keeping millions in enduring poverty.</p><p>A recent study showed that storms in the Asia-Pacific region are increasingly forming closer to coastlines, intensifying more rapidly and lasting longer over land due to climate change.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/11/12/typhoons-may-continue-until-first-quarter-of-2025-pagasa-1449">Typhoons may continue until first quarter of 2025: PAGASA</a><strong></strong></div><div><strong>— With reports from Ariel Rojas and Pia Gutierrez, ABS-CBN News; Agence France-Presse </strong></div>

<p>Ofel intensified into a typhoon before dawn on Wednesday, as it threatened to bring more rains to northern Luzon shortly after the onslaught of typhoon Nika.</p>

Ofel intensified into a typhoon before dawn on Wednesday, as it threatened to bring more rains to northern Luzon shortly after the onslaught of typhoon Nika.

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