Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR)

• The exact dimensions of this domain are the area of the Western North Pacific bounded by imaginary lines connecting the coordinates.
• 5ºN 115ºE

  15ºN 115ºE

  21ºN 120ºE

  25ºN 120ºE

  25ºN 135ºE

  5ºN 135ºE
• Typhoon tracking and forcasting

  • involves the prediction of the path of a typhoon every 6-12 hours over a period of atleast 5 days.
• Signs of an approaching typhoon

  • increasing wave height and frequency
  • increasing cloudiness
  • falling air pressure
  • heavy rainfall