Quedan out of PAR by Saturday morning

SEVERE Tropical Storm Quedan is expected to be outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) by Saturday morning, Oct. 28, the state weather bureau said in an advisory at 11:00 a.m. of Friday that was due, as of this writing, to be updated 12 hours later that day.

The storm is forecasted to be 835 km northeast of Basco, provincial capital of the Batanes archipelago, by Saturday morning, and 1,420 km northeast of Basco by Sunday morning.

As of 10:00 a.m. of Friday, the storm’s center was at 795 km east of Basco. Quedan had maximum sustained winds of up to 90 kph near the center and gustiness of up to 115 kph, the advisory read.

“Estimated rainfall amount is from moderate to heavy within the 750 km diameter of the Severe Tropical Storm,” the advisory also read. “Sea travel is risky over the seaboards of Northern Luzon, Eastern seaboard of Central and Southern Luzon and Eastern seaboard of Visayas.”