Tropical depression forms east of Philippines, still outside PAR
MANILA, Philippines — A low-pressure area that PAGASA forecasters had been tracking east of the Philippines strengthened into a tropical depression on Monday, July 13, and was given the international name Haishen.
As of 8 a.m., Haishen was 1,275 kilometers east of Eastern Visayas, with maximum sustained winds of 55 kilometers per hour and gusts of up to 70 kph, PAGASA said in a 10 a.m. update.
Haishen was moving west-northwest at 30 kph.
The weather disturbance is still outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility.
It has not been given a local name, which the bureau assigns only to cyclones that enter that zone.
The Philippines typically sees about 20 tropical cyclones enter its area of responsibility each year, most of them between July and October.
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