Latest Philippine Weather Forecast - October 11/4pm PAGASA

Here is the latest weather forecast from PAG-ASA for the Tropical Storm RAMON.

At 4:00 p.m. today, Tropical Storm "RAMON" was estimated based on satellite and surface data at 180 km East Northeast of Hinatuan, Surigao Del Sur (8.9°N, 127.9°E) with maximum sustained winds of 65 kph near the center with gustiness of up to 80 kph. It is forecast to move Northwest at 17 kph.

Forecast:
Central and Eastern Visayas and Northeastern Mindanao will experience stormy weather while Masbate, Romblon, Sorsogon and Western Visayas will have rains and gusty winds and the coastal waters along these areas will be moderate to rough. Central and the rest of Southern Luzon and the rest of Mindanao will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms. Northern Luzon will be partly cloudy to cloudy with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms.

Moderate to strong winds blowing from the Northeast to North will prevail over Southern Luzon and coming from the Northwest to Southwest over the rest of Mindanao. The coastal waters along these areas will be moderate to rough. Elsewhere, winds will be light to moderate blowing from the Northeast to North with slight to moderate seas.

The areas under Storm Signal No. 2 are:

Southern Leyte
Eastern Samar
Surigao del Norte
Siargao Island
Surigao del Sur
Dinagat Island

Those under Storm Signal No. 1 are:

Masbate
Ticao Island
Romblon
Sorsogon
Northern Leyte
Biliran Island
Bohol
Cebu
Northern Negros
Northern Samar
Western Samar
Panay Island
Guimaras Island
Agusan del Norte
Agusan del Sur
Misamis Oriental
Camiguin Island

Pacquiao is 80% Ready

Manny Pacquiao feels he is already in fighting form a little over a month before he collides with Juan Manuel Marquez on Nov. 12 in Las Vegas.

"Eighty percent," Pacquiao told Top Rank TV moments after his arrival in Los Angeles on Saturday night (late Sunday morning in Manila).

The remaining 20 percent will be added when he kicks off his training at the Wild Card Boxing Club starting Monday.

Pacquiao spent three weeks in Baguio City under Freddie Roach’s watch and in the remaining weeks, the Filipino will be made to double or even triple his efforts as Roach will field a fresher batch of sparmates.

In Baguio City, the 32-year-old Pacquiao sparred mainly with Venezuelan Jorge Linares and Roach told the on-line edition of The Ring magazine that their styles were made for each other.

Roach said Linares is “smart” like Marquez and “every punch that he throws has a meaning with it.”

While Linares’s style is not really a copy-cat of Marquez’s counter-punching ways, the 26-year-old puncher remains “very, very formidable,” noted Roach.

Marquez, meanwhile, is also in the thick of preparations in Mexico City under Nacho Beristain and a team of other experts from the fields of nutrition and conditioning.

Marquez, 38, said he was forced to tap these experts owing to the magnitude of the Pacquiao rubber match.

News source: Manila Bulletin