Typhoon USAGI / Odette upgraded to Category 2
Typhoon USAGI / Odette is now a Category 2 Typhoon after it rapidly intensified overnight while over the Philippine Sea. The storm also increased its forward speed to 15 km/h in direction west-southwest.
CAUTION: This typhoon will continue to enhance the Southwest Monsoon (Hanging Habagat). In Camiguin we just measured gusts of 75 km/h and noticed heavy rainfall.
PAGASA has declared Storm Signal #1 in:
- Batanes Group of Islands
- Apayao
- Isabela
- Cagayan including Calayan
- Babuyan Group of Islands.
Luzon Dam Status:
3 dams have spill gates open: Ambuklao, Binga, Magat.
Ambuklao dam has only 26 centimeters left before overflow.
3 dams have spill gates open: Ambuklao, Binga, Magat.
Ambuklao dam has only 26 centimeters left before overflow.
Storm data:
| Name (INTL. / local): | USAGI / Odette |
| Class: | Typhoon Category 2 |
| Time/Date of observation: | 05:00 AM on September 19, 2013 |
| Location of Center: | 17.0º North 128.3º East |
| Moving Direction and Speed: | WSW at 15 km/h |
| Moving towards: | Batanes Islands / Taiwan |
| Distance from the Philippines: | 625 km E of Palanan, Isabela |
| Estimated Date / Time of Landfall: | n/a |
| Max. Wind Speed near Center: | 165 km/h |
| Peak Wind Gusts: | 205 km/h |
| Minimum Central Pressure: | 956 hPa |
| Diameter: | 890 km (large) |
| 24h Rainfall near Center: | 400 mm |
| Max. Wave Height: | 7.5 m |
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