{"id":6578,"date":"2016-07-05T14:01:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T06:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=6578"},"modified":"2016-07-05T14:01:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T06:01:28","slug":"tropical-storm-butchoy-expected-to-enter-par-later-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/07\/05\/tropical-storm-butchoy-expected-to-enter-par-later-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm \u201cButchoy\u201d expected to enter PAR later today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Less than a week after \u201cAmbo\u201d brought rains to the country, another tropical storm is set to bring more rain to parts of the Philippines. Severe tropical storm Butchoy (international name \u201cNepartak\u201d) is set to enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) on Tuesday afternoon, July 5.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6579\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/07\/Satellite-Image.gif\" alt=\"Satellite Image\" width=\"770\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>FIRST IN JULY. TS Butchoy will be the first out of many tropical cyclones to hit the country this year. Image courtesy of <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph\/index.php\/general-weather\/daily-weather-forecast\"><em>PAGASA<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">According to the latest public weather forecast from the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), Butchoy was last spotted 1,460 km east of Virac, Catanduanes. The tropical storm brings maximum sustained winds of 105 kph near the center and gustiness of up to 135 kph, moving northwest at 30 kph.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">It is not expected to make landfall in the country if it continues on its current track, which shocws it hitting Taiwan and the Ryuku Islands according to a report from <a href=\"http:\/\/cnnphilippines.com\/news\/2016\/07\/03\/pagasa-tropical-storm-butchoy-nepartak.html\">CNN Philippines<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">In the same forecast, cloudy skies with light to moderate rains will be experienced over CALABARZON, MIMAROPA, Western Visayas, Davao Region, and over the provinces of Zambales and Bataan. Metro Manila and the rest of the country will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph\/index.php\/general-weather\/daily-weather-forecast\"><em>PAGASA<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/cnnphilippines.com\/news\/2016\/07\/03\/pagasa-tropical-storm-butchoy-nepartak.html\"><em>CNN Philippines<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/interaksyon.com\/article\/129945\/butchoy-intensifies-to-severe-tropical-storm---pagasa\"><em>InterAksyon.com<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/cebudailynews.inquirer.net\/97016\/tropical-storm-butchoy-to-enter-ph-on-tuesday\"><em>Cebu Daily News<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rappler.com\/nation\/special-coverage\/weather-alert\/138616-20160705-philippine-weather-forecast-tropical-storm-nepartak\"><em>Rappler<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a week after \u201cAmbo\u201d brought rains to the country, another tropical storm is set to bring more rain to parts of the Philippines. Severe tropical storm Butchoy (international name \u201cNepartak\u201d) is set to enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) on Tuesday afternoon, July 5. \u00a0 FIRST IN JULY. TS Butchoy will be the first out of many tropical cyclones to hit the country this year. Image courtesy of PAGASA. \u00a0 According to the latest public weather forecast from the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), Butchoy was last spotted 1,460 km east of Virac, Catanduanes. The tropical storm brings maximum sustained winds of 105 kph [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/07\/Satellite-Image-e1467697030241.gif","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6580,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578\/revisions\/6580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}