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‘One typhoon may possibly hit NMI, Guam directly this year’
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Posted on May 26 2012
By Ferdie de la Torre
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One typhoon will possibly hit the CNMI and Guam directly this year, according to Weather Forecast Office Guam warning coordination meteorologist Charles “Chip” Guard on Thursday.
Guard said there will probably be three typhoons this year and one of the islands in the Marianas region may get a direct hit.
“But it’s not a supertyphoon.probably just a category 1 or two typhoon,” he said.
Guard said the best chance of a direct hit will be in June through September, and in October through December.
Guard was the lecturer at the Emergency Management Office’s two-day Annual National Weather Service Tropical Cyclone, Disaster Preparedness, and Climate Workshop that kicked off Tuesday at LaoLao Bay Golf Resort Saipan’s Caladium Banquet Hall.
On Thursday, Guard held a three-hour disaster preparedness course with the media at the EMO Building on Capital Hill.
One of the many topics that Guard discussed was the predicted typhoon risk for islands from June 2012 through May 2013.
He said in June through September, there will be a 25-percent chance of tropical cyclone risk for the CNMI/Guam. In October through December, the chance of typhoon risk is 30 percent.
Guard said in January 2013 to March 2013 the chance is 15 percent, while in April 2013 through July 2013 the chance is only 10 percent.
“We have a chance of getting hit by a typhoon every five years,” he said, citing that Typhoon Chaba directly hit Rota in 2004 and another in 2002.
