WITH Typhoon Ofel already whipping parts of Northern Luzon, another tropical cyclone named Man-yi (which will be called Pepito) was forecast to enter the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR) as a typhoon on Thursday evening, the state-run weather agency said Wednesday.

The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said Man-yi, estimated at 1,965 kilometers east of Eastern Visayas, outside the PAR, could become a super typhoon before making landfall over the eastern coast of Luzon Saturday or Sunday.

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