Tropical Depression Zoraida Moves Through as Haiyan Relief Continues

Even as relief efforts ramp up in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan, another tropical disturbance is crossing the Philippines.

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Tropical Depression Zoraida, as named by the Philippine weather agency PAGASA, has brought locally heavy rain to parts of the southern and central Philippines. Davao City, the largest city on the main southern island of Mindanao, reported 82 mm (3.2 inches) of rain in the 24-hour period ending at 8 a.m. Philippine time Tuesday. The Philippines are 13 hours ahead of U.S. Eastern time.

Davao is one of the largest cities in the Philippines, with over 1.4 million people in the city and 2.2 million people in its metropolitan area.

Weather reports from the hardest-hit areas of the central Philippines are limited as most of the infrastructure was wiped out by Super Typhoon Haiyan.

(FORECAST: Davao City, Philippines)

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PAGASA downgraded Zoraida to a remnant low at 3:30 p.m. local time Tuesday, but the Japan Meteorological Agency – the official tropical cyclone forecasting center for the western Pacific – has maintained it as a weak unnamed tropicaldepression. The center of the system was, as of Tuesday afternoon U.S. time, centered over the Sulu Sea, between Mindanao and the narrow southwestern island of Palawan. Movement was to the west at 22 mph, according to the JMA.

However, most of the rain and thunderstorm activity is well north and west of the center of circulation. This means that a large amount of the thunderstorm activity is already starting to push west of the Philippine island chain.

Little if any intensification of this system is expected as it emerges west of the Philippines in the coming days.

Stay with The Weather Channel and weather.com as we follow the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.