Typhoon Co-may impacting our home Provence in Luzon, Philippines.

[Gavin O'Brien]

Hi all,

The strongest typhoon to impact the Provence in 16 years is about to cross our home Provence, La Union , about 250 km north of Manila. The eye will most likely cross Aringay in the next few hours .

So far everyone is safe although some relatives have had to evacuate their home due to a combination of River flooding and a storm surge backing up the Aringay River. They have already had serious flooding due to a strong Monsoon rains. The path of the Typhoon was unusual as it looped around the South China Sea for several days before intensifying yesterday.

I will keep you posted.

Gavin.

[Blair Trewin]

OFFICIAL

Surprised it's the strongest in 16 years given how regularly the rest of the Philippines gets hit (looks like it was the equivalent of an Australian category 2?). Major impacts look to be from flooding as you say.

 

It's actually been a pretty quiet year so far for tropical cyclones in the Northern Hemisphere, with few intense systems. The North Indian Ocean hasn't had any at all (possibly related to the unusually early start to the Indian monsoon).

 

Blair

 

OFFICIAL

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[Gavin O'Brien]

Hi Blair,

The typhoon was the strongest to impact our Provence. You are correct that much stronger Typhoons have crossed the Philippines. Super Typhoon Haiyan will for a long time remain in our memories.

Our region is on the west coast of Luzon and most Typhoons cross Luzon from the east, weakening as they cross the 2,000 metre mountains. By the time they reach our Provence they weaken and often a new centre develops off the coast over the South China Sea,they can "leapfrog" over northern Luzon. This one came northeast out of the South China Sea so intensified prior to to crossing the coast south of our town. We have photos of the flooding in Aringay. The Aringay River heads in the mountains near Baguio (2,300 metres) . It is now over 2 kilometres wide and just below the roadway about 30 metres above the river bed. Trees were blown down in town. The house is okay. Relatives near the River have evacuated to higher ground in town.

All are okay.

Cheers 

Gavin 

On Sat, 26 July 2025, 8:50 am JimbaranEng, <ad...@jimbaraneng.com> wrote:

Hi Gavin,
Sending all positive thoughts to your family over there.

Love to you both xxx
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