Cebu weather to improve Sunday as some sea trips resume

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CEBU will see improved weather starting Sunday, July 12, even as Typhoon Inday's (international name: Bavi) enhanced southwest monsoon continues to bring gusty winds and cloudy skies, the state weather bureau said.

Cebu was forecasted to experience cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms on Saturday, July 11, with moderate to strong southwest winds, and moderate to rough coastal waters, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration- Visayas (Pagasa-Visayas) stated in its 5-Day Regional Weather Outlook.

Conditions are expected to ease starting Sunday, when Cebu's skies turn partly cloudy with only isolated rainshowers and thunderstorms.

However, Pagasa cautioned that the improvement will not be immediate across the board.

In its 11 a.m. tropical cyclone bulletin Saturday, the weather bureau said the enhanced southwest monsoon and the periphery of Inday would still bring strong to gale-force gusts over most of Luzon and Visayas, including Cebu, on Sunday, even as the typhoon itself moves farther away.

As a result, several sea trips to and from Cebu remain suspended as of Saturday, according to separate advisories issued by shipping firms and the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA).

On the other hand, some voyages resumed the same day due to improved sea conditions, including ferry routes covering Toledo-San Carlos City and Danao-Camotes.

Gustier winds are expected to persist into Monday, July 13, over Western Visayas and Negros Occidental, before conditions broadly settle by midweek.

Inday exited the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) at 8:20 a.m. Saturday, with its center estimated 590 kilometers north-northeast of Itbayat, Batanes, packing maximum sustained winds of 140 kilometers per hour and gusts of up to 170 kph.

The typhoon was moving north-northwestward at 20 kph and is expected to make landfall over mainland China's eastern coast tonight or Sunday morning, before weakening into a severe tropical storm further inland.(RBE)