STORM PAOLO (international name: Lan), which intensified yesterday into a severe tropical storm, could further strengthen into a typhoon category today, Oct. 18, according to weather bureau PAGASA’s bulletin as of 11 a.m. Tuesday. As of 10:00 a.m. yesterday, Paolo was located 765 kilometers (km) east of Guiuan, Eastern Samar. The storm is not expected to make landfall, but would bring moderate to heavy rains within its 450-km diameter. Scattered light to moderate with possible occasional heavy rains were forecasted over the Bicol Region, and in the Visayas and Mindanao. On the western side of the country, a low pressure area (LPA) was located 395 km west of Coron, Palawan as of yesterday morning, which would bring scattered light to moderate with possible occasional heavy rains over Palawan.

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