Tropical Depression Emong exits PAR

Tropical Cyclone Emong weakened into a tropical depression with maximum sustained winds of 55 km/h and gusts of up to 70 km/h, and exited the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) at 7:10 am on Saturday, July 26.

PAGASA announced that Emong was already outside PAR, and there are no more rainfall warnings and tropical cyclone wind signals.

The tropical depression was hundreds of kilometers northeast of Itbayat, Batanes, and accelerated moving north northeast at 45 km/h.

Due to the increasingly unfavorable environment and fast translational speed, Emong is likely to degenerate into a remnant low within the next 12 hours.

The Southwest Monsoon (Habagat) will still bring occasional rains to the Ilocos Region, Zambales, Bataan, and Occidental Mindoro.

Metro Manila, the Cordillera Administrative Region, Cagayan Valley, CALABARZON, the rest of Central Luzon, and MIMAROPA can expect cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms.

The rest of the country will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms.

At its peak, Emong was a typhoon with maximum sustained winds of 120 km/h and made landfall twice as a typhoon in Pangasinan and Ilocos Sur.