{E} Current PAGASA Doppler Radar status

All images are retrieved from ClimateX.ph. No copyright infringement intended.
All Doppler radar stations are owned by PAGASA-DOST and such data are being shown via Project NOAH and ClimateX.

Notes:
Online - radar images/animations from the PAGASA radar station can be seen in Project NOAH and/or ClimateX websites.
Operational but not online - these Doppler radars are working but not yet available online.
Station under construction - future Doppler radar stations of PAGASA, construction not yet completed, however, the weather bureau is hoping that these stations may finally be operational by the end of the year.

Doppler radar images below show their 240 kilometer (km) coverage, but they have the capacity to cover as far as 480 kms. especially during severe weather conditions.

LUZON
1. Baguio City (online since 201207, 201212)

Within 240km Radius Coverage:
CAR: Baguio City, Apayao (southern part), Kalinga, Mountain Province, Ifugao, Benguet, Abr
Region I: Ilocos Norte (southern part), Ilocos Sur, La Union, and Pangasinan
Region II: Cagayan (southwestern part including Tuguegarao City), Isabela (western and central parts including Cauayan and Ilagan cities), Nueva Vizcaya, and Quirino
Region III: Aurora, Nueva Ecija, Bulacan, Tarlac, Pampanga, Zambales, and Bataan (except southern part)
Region IV-A: Quezon (northernmost part only), Rizal (northern part)
NCR: Caloocan, Malabon, Navotas, Valenzuela, Quezon City (northern part)

2. Subic, Zambales (online since 201206)


3. Tagaytay City, Cavite (online since 201206)


4. Baler, Aurora (operational but not online)
5. Virac, Catanduanes (operational but not online)
6. Aparri, Cagayan (operational but not online)
7. Busuanga, Palawan (station under construction)
8. somewhere in southern Palawan (status uncertain)

VISAYAS
1. Mactan, Lapu-Lapu City (online since 201206)


2. Guiuan, Eastern Samar (operational but not online)
3. Iloilo City (station under construction)

MINDANAO
1. Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur (online since 201206)


2. Tampakan, South Cotabato (online since 201301)


3. Zamboanga City (station under construction)

Read more:
{Type E} Didn't Hinatuan Radar really work in the wake of Typhoon Pablo?
{Type M} Project NOAH, ClimateX, and PAGASA Doppler radars

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{E} Didn't Hinatuan Radar really work in the wake of Typhoon Pablo?

Recently, I read a news article from Mindanews.com dated Dec. 6, 2012 saying that Philippine president Noynoy Aquino was not aware that the country's state weather agency PAGASA's[1] Doppler radar station (or equipment) in Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur was not working at the time Typhoon Pablo[2] ravaged the supposed "typhoon-free" Mindanao.

Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas himself was not aware of the problem, and said that the President was not noted about it.

Read more: {E} Latest Track for Typhoon BOPHA (PABLO)

The eye of Typhoon Pablo (Bopha) over Davao Region
as shown in this Doppler radar imagery from the Hinatuan station.
From PAGASA's Facebook page

But, PAGASA's Facebook page posted one of Hinatuan radar's images showing the eye of Pablo over somewhere between Davao Oriental where it made landfall and the adjacent province of Compostela Valley December 4 morning.

I'm not saying that the news is completely wrong. No. The reporter(s) who asked Sec. Roxas perhaps consulted the Project NOAH website for the rainfall amount Typhoon Pablo had. And at that time, the Hinatuan radar is "under maintenance" (sorry, I don't have snapshots of it for proof), so he/she/they may had concluded it as "down".

Read more: {M} Project NOAH, ClimateX, and PAGASA Doppler radars

Nevertheless, with that image as basis, Hinatuan radar station was really working at that time.

I think, it is just the "connectivity problems" of the radar equipment with Project NOAH which was needed for resolution.

So this time, we cannot blame the radar equipment again for the loss of more than a thousand people, two years in a row.

Sorry peeps.

The thing is, our Doppler radars are now reliable in giving us rainfall updates in most parts of the country. I can't wait for all of them to appear in Project NOAH. I'm so excited to see it, very soon.

(Sorry to those who may have been struck and hurt by this blog post. I just based everything "on facts, not fiction".)

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Footnotes: [1] stands for Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration
[2] internationally known as Typhoon Bopha