FROM PHILIPPINE WEATHER WATCH

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You are seeing this correct. This super typhoon Uwan is massive and it’s going to carry a lot of water with it. So this is a 2 day rain accumulation and it’s what I expected. Anywhere from 300 to 414 mm of rain from Uwan.

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