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Pagasa needs, hopes for rain gauge radars.
(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Byline: Norman Bordadora
THE MISERY brought by Tropical Depression Winnie underlines once again the need to forecast with some degree of accuracy how much rain would fall in a particular area so that people could protect themselves against tragedy, officials said yesterday.
For that purpose, they said, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration would need several rain gauge radars, each capable of forecasting the amount of rainfall over a 20-km radius.
With Pagasa's P2.7 billion modernization program still in the government's bureaucratic back burner, the purchase of rain gauge radar equipment and typhoon tracking radars could not be expected for at least a couple of more years.
Each radar would cost P35 million to P40 million, Pagasa officer-in-charge Dr. Prisco Nilo told the Inquirer.
"Metro Manila would need two to cover the area end to end. But these two could already also service nearby areas (in Central Luzon and Southern Tagalog)," Nilo said in an interview.
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