Typhoon Chedeng News Today

Prices of vegetables are still on an upward trend despite earlier assurance from the Department of Agriculture that prices would normalize this week.

Prices of vegetables are expected to stabilize this week after a P20 per kilo increase last week brought about by heavy rains in many parts of the country, a ranking official of the Department of Agriculture said yesterday.

The water level of Angat Dam and five other dams in Luzon continued to drop despite rains experienced last week in many areas in the country, according to latest data from the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration.

The retail prices of vegetables increased by P20 per kilo amid rains experienced in many areas in the country last week.

Typhoon Chedeng (Guchol) is already 990 kilometers east of extreme Northern Luzon early Sunday, June 11, but it continues to enhance the southwest monsoon

No tropical cyclone wind signal has been hoisted over any part of the country, although PAGASA said it may cause moderate to rough seas in extreme northern Luzon in the next 24 hours.

The moderate to heavy rain being experienced in parts of Luzon as well as Antique on Sunday, June 11, is from the southwest monsoon, which is still being enhanced by Typhoon Chedeng (Guchol)

Typhoon Chedeng intensifed in the middle of the Philippine Sea while the Southwest Monsoon or Hanging Habagat continues to bring cloudy and rainy weather in the western sections of Luzon and Visayas.

Typhoon Chedeng has sustained its strength before entering a weakening trend on Sunday, the state weather bureau says.

The Department of Social Welfare and Development is geared up for potential calamities as the country faces the unrest of two volcanoes and the effects of a typhoon blowing through Philippine seas, Secretary Rex Gatchalian said on Saturday.