‘Jenny’ intensifies as it heads northwest

This satellite image from Pagasa shows the current location of severe tropical storm Jenny.

This satellite image from Pagasa shows the current location of severe tropical storm Jenny.

Severe tropical storm “Jenny” (international name: Dujuan) slightly intensified as it continued to move in the same speed, the state weather bureau said midday Friday.

The storm packed maximum sustained winds of 105 kilometers per hour near the center and gusts of up to 135 kph, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said.

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It was heading northwest at 7kph and was last located 1,135 kilometers east of Calayan, Cagayan.

No storm signals were raised but it will bring moderate to heavy rains within its 600 kilometer diameter.

Pagasa warned fishermen to avoid the eastern seaboards of Southern Luzon and of Visayas and of Mindanao. Frances Mangosing/IDL

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