The storm is predicted to make second landfall within the northern Aurora province as tens of hundreds are displaced.
Tremendous Storm Man-yi has uprooted bushes, bringing down energy traces and triggering tidal surges because it threatens to make its second landfall on the northeastern Philippine coast – the sixth main storm to hit the nation in lower than a month.
As of 2pm (06:00 GMT) on Sunday, Man-yi was approaching the northern province of Aurora with most sustained winds of as much as 185km/h (115mph), based on the nationwide climate company PAGASA. Its gustiness barely eased from 255km/h (158mph) to 230km/h (143mph).
Photos posted on social media by numerous Philippine TV shops on Sunday confirmed massive waves lashing the coast of Aurora amid howling winds and heavy rain. PAGASA additionally continued to warn of a “probably harmful and life-threatening” scenario as Man-yi strikes nearer to land.
Man-yi is the sixteenth storm to hit the Philippines in 2024.
On Saturday night time, it slammed into the japanese island province of Catanduanes in central Philippines with sustained winds of as much as 195km/h (125mph).
As of Sunday afternoon, there have been no speedy reviews of casualties from the storm, nevertheless it left Catanduanes with no energy after it knocked down bushes and electrical energy posts.
“The rain was minimal, however the wind was very robust and had this eerie howling sound,” Roberto Monterola, a disaster-mitigation officer in Catanduanes, advised The Related Press information company.
“Alongside a important boulevard right here, the tidal surges went as much as greater than 7 metres (23 toes) close to the seaside homes. It seemed actually scary.”
Almost half of the island province’s 80,000 folks had been sheltering in evacuation centres upfront of Man-yi’s landfall.
Within the northern Philippines, greater than 750,000 folks took refuge in emergency shelters, together with church buildings and a shopping center, resulting from Man-yi and two earlier storms, based on civil defence official Cesar Idio.
The uncommon variety of back-to-back storms and typhoons that lashed Luzon in simply three weeks killed greater than 160 folks, affected 9 million and precipitated such intensive harm to residential communities, infrastructure and farmlands that the Philippines might must import extra rice, a staple meals for many Filipinos.
In an emergency assembly as Man-yi approached, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr requested his cupboard and provincial officers to brace for “the worst-case state of affairs”.
Gopal Mukherjee, the Crimson Cross Philippines programme coordinator, advised Al Jazeera that hundreds of volunteers had been activated throughout the nation earlier than the storm.
“They’ve been making an attempt to help their neighbours and their communities, in addition to the native authorities,” he mentioned. “We’re additionally making an attempt to offer assist within the evacuation centres by way of non-food gadgets, like mats, blankets and kitchen utensils.”
Earlier than Man-yi’s landfall, at the least 26 home airports and two worldwide airports had been briefly shut and inter-island ferry and cargo providers had been suspended resulting from tough seas, stranding hundreds of passengers and commuters, based on the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines and the Philippine Coast Guard. On common, the Philippines is battered by about 20 typhoons and storms every year.
