The latest storm information from the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said that at 4:00 a.m. on November 18, the center of the storm was at about 18.0 degrees north latitude; 118.9 degrees east longitude, 145 km west of Sinait, Ilocos Surt, in the eastern sea of the northern East Sea. The strongest wind near the center of the storm is level 11-12 (103-133 km/h), gusting to level 15, pressure 965 hPa, storm cloud radius 280 km. The storm is moving northwest at a speed of about 25 km/h.
The storm forecast of the Vietnam Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting said that at 4:00 a.m. on November 19, the center of the storm was at about 19.1 degrees north latitude, 114.6 degrees east longitude; in the northern East Sea; about 370 km northeast of Hoang Sa archipelago of Vietnam. The storm intensity is level 10, gusting to level 12. The storm is moving west-northwest, about 20 km/h, continuing to weaken. Dangerous area: latitude 16.5 - 21.0 degrees north; east of longitude 113.0 degrees east. Level 3 natural disaster risk in the northern East Sea.
At 4:00 a.m. on November 20, the center of the storm was at about 18.3 degrees north latitude, 111.2 degrees east longitude; in the western area of the northern East Sea; about 210 km northwest of Vietnam's Hoang Sa archipelago. The storm intensity was level 8, gusting to level 10. The storm moved west-southwest at about 15 km/h, continuing to weaken.
Forecast as of 4:00 a.m. on November 21, the center of storm No. 9 is at about 17.3 degrees north latitude, 109.5 degrees east longitude; in the sea off the Central Central Coast. The storm intensity is below level 6, moving southwest at about 10 km/h, gradually weakening into a tropical depression, then a low pressure area.
Earlier, at around 3:20 p.m. on November 17, super typhoon Man-yi made landfall for the second time on the northeastern coast of the Philippines - the sixth major typhoon to hit the country in less than a month.
Before making landfall, according to PAGASA, the strongest winds near the storm's center reached 185 km/h, with gusts of 305 km/h in the late afternoon of November 17.
Man-yi is the 16th storm to hit the Philippines in 2024.
On the night of November 16, the storm made landfall in the eastern island province of Catanduanes in the central Philippines with maximum winds near the storm's eye reaching 195 km/h.
As of the afternoon of November 18, there were no immediate reports of casualties from the storm, but it left Catanduanes without power after downing trees and electricity poles.
“There was very little rain, but the wind was very strong and howling. Along a main avenue here, the tide rose to more than 7 meters near the houses along the coast. It was really scary,” Roberto Monterola, a disaster mitigation official in Catanduanes, told the AP.
Nearly half of the island province's 80,000 residents took shelter in evacuation centers before Typhoon Man-yi made landfall.
In the northern Philippines, more than 750,000 people have taken refuge in emergency shelters, including churches and a shopping mall, due to Typhoon Man-yi and two previous storms, according to civil defense official Cesar Idio.
The back-to-back typhoons and super typhoons that have hit Luzon in just three weeks have killed at least 160 people, affected 9 million people and caused such extensive damage to communities, infrastructure and farmland that the Philippines may have to import more rice.
