TROPICAL STORM Jelawat has rapidly weakened as it continues to move east northeastward, the state weather bureau said in an advisory on Sunday before noon. The storm was estimated as of that bulletin at 2,445 kilometers (kms) east of Basco, Batanes, already out of the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR). Jelawat will be 2,735 kms further along that direction by Monday morning.
