By Marisol Bo-oc | 02:48 PM November 13, 2023
The low pressure area nearing the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR) has strengthened into a tropical depression, the state weather bureau said on Monday.
Based on the 11 a.m. bulletin of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa), the tropical depression was last located 1,540 kilometers east of southeastern Mindanao, packing maximum sustained winds of 45 kilometers per hour (kph) and gustiness of 55 kph.
The cyclone was moving eastward at 20 kph.
It will be called Kabayan—the country’s first cyclone in November and the 11th this year—once it enters the PAR by Wednesday.
