The Philippine capital Manila was put under a storm warning Sunday after super-typhoon Juan, internationally called Megi, changed track and began moving south, threatening the coast of the northern province of Cagayan.
The Philippine weather bureau said the super-typhoon had sustained windspeeds of 140 miles per hour, according to the Phillippine Daily Inquirer, with the center of the storm located 180 miles east northeast of Tuguegarao (over 200 miles north of Manila) at 10 p.m. Sunday night.
The storm was moving west southwest at 12 miles per hour and expected to pass over the north end of the island of Luzon within 24 hours. The center is expected to pass north of Manilla, but the capita,l with an estimated 20 million inhabitants, will experience heavy rains.
Graciano Yumul Jr., official at the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said, according to the Inquirer, that a similar alert during the storm Ondoy in September, resulted in a flood that covered most of the city. Cagayan and Isabela in northern Luzon remained under the most serious alert.
