#WalangPasok: Up to date Checklist of Work and Class cancellations for September 17, 2024 (Tuesday)
Manila, Philippines – In response to inclement climate situations, a number of native authorities models (LGUs) determined to droop lessons for Tuesday, September 17. The announcement was made on Monday to make sure the protection of scholars and college employees.

Walang Pasok Updates: Setyembre 17, Martes
(As of 9:25pm, September 16, 2024) Right here’s an up to date record of cities, cities, and faculties that canceled lessons/work On Tuesday:
Mimaropa
- Palawan
- Coron – all ranges (private and non-private), till Tuesday, September 17
Negros Island Area
- Negros Occidental
- La Carlota Metropolis – all ranges (private and non-private), till Tuesday, September 17
Central Luzon
- Tarlac Metropolis, Tarlac (all ranges)
Ilocos Area
- Province of Ilocos Sur (all ranges)
- Province of Pangasinan (all ranges)
Western Visayas
Vintage
- Hamtic – preschool to senior highschool, private and non-private (supply)
- San Jose de Buenavista – no face-to-face lessons for preschool to senior highschool, private and non-private; shift to modular studying (supply)
Iloilo
- Iloilo Metropolis – no face-to-face lessons for preschool to senior highschool, private and non-private; shift to modular studying (supply)
Forecast Climate Circumstances
Climate Replace by PAGASA Issued at 4:00 AM, 17, Sept 2024
SYNOPSIS: At 3:00 PM immediately, the middle of Tropical Despair “GENER” was estimated primarily based on all obtainable knowledge at 305 km East of Tuguegarao Metropolis, Cagayan (17.4°N, 124.6°E) with most sustained winds of 55 km/h close to the middle and gustiness as much as 70 km/h. It’s shifting Northwestward at 10 km/h. Southwest Monsoon affecting Southern Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. TROPICAL CYCLONE OUTSIDE PAR AS OF 3:00 PM TODAY TROPICAL STORM “PULASAN” (2414) LOCATION: 2,190 KM EAST OF CENTRAL LUZON (16.2°N, 142.1°E) MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS: 65 KM/H NEAR THE CENTER GUSTINESS: UP TO 80 KM/H MOVEMENT: WEST NORTHWESTWARD AT 35 KM/H.
Place | Climate Situation | Prompted By | Impacts |
---|---|---|---|
Ilocos Norte, Cordillera Administrative Area, Cagayan Valley, Zambales, Tarlac, Nueva Ecija, Aurora, and Quezon | Rains with gusty winds | TD Gener | Potential flash floods or landslides resulting from average to heavy with at occasions intense rains. Minimal to minor menace to lives and properties resulting from sturdy winds. |
Palawan, Occidental Mindoro, Aklan, Vintage, and Negros Occidental | Monsoon rains | Southwest Monsoon | Potential flash floods or landslides resulting from heavy to intense rains |
The remainder of MIMAROPA, Western Visayas, and Negros Island Area | Occasional rains | Southwest Monsoon | Potential flash floods or landslides resulting from average to heavy rains |
The remainder of Central Luzon | Cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms | TD Gener | Potential flash floods or landslides resulting from average to at occasions heavy rains |
Metro Manila, Zamboanga Peninsula, BARMM, SOCCSKSARGEN, Caraga, Northern Mindanao, and the remainder of Luzon and Visayas | Cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms | Southwest Monsoon | Potential flash floods or landslides resulting from average to at occasions heavy rains |
The remainder of Mindanao | Partly cloudy to cloudy skies with remoted rainshowers or thunderstorms | Southwest Monsoon | Potential flash floods or landslides throughout extreme thunderstorms |
Tropical Despair “Gener”
Issued at 05:00 pm, 16 September 2024 (Legitimate for broadcast till the subsequent advisory to be issued at 8:00 PM immediately)
TROPICAL DEPRESSION “GENER” CONTINUES TO APPROACH NORTHERN LUZON.
HAZARDS AFFECTING LAND AREAS
- Heavy Rainfall Outlook
- Seek advice from Climate Advisory No. 21 issued at 5:00 PM immediately for the heavy rainfall outlook resulting from Tropical Despair GENER and the Southwest Monsoon enhanced by GENER and Tropical Storm PULASAN.
- Extreme Winds
- The wind indicators warn the general public of the final wind menace over an space because of the tropical cyclone. Native winds could also be barely stronger/enhanced in coastal and upland/mountainous areas uncovered to winds. Winds are much less sturdy in areas sheltered from the prevailing wind route.
- Minimal to minor impacts from sturdy winds are potential inside any of the areas beneath Wind Sign No. 1.
- The Southwest Monsoon enhanced by GENER and “PULASAN” can even deliver sturdy to gale-force gusts over the next areas (particularly in coastal and upland areas uncovered to winds):
- Right this moment: Batanes, MIMAROPA, Bicol Area, Visayas, Zamboanga Peninsula, Northern Mindanao, Caraga Area, and Davao Area.
- Tomorrow (17 September): Batanes, MIMAROPA, Bicol Area, Visayas, and Mindanao.
- Wednesday (18 September): Zambales, Bataan, Pampanga, Bulacan, Metro Manila, CALABARZON, MIMAROPA, Bicol Area, Visayas, and Mindanao.
HAZARDS AFFECTING COASTAL WATERS
- 24-Hour Sea Situation Outlook
- Gale Warning is in impact over a number of coastal waters within the western and southern seaboards of Southern Luzon, the seaboards of Visayas, and the western, northern, and jap seaboards of Mindanao. For extra info, consult with Gale Warning No. 5 issued at 5:00 PM immediately. Sea journey in these waters is dangerous for small seacrafts, together with all varieties of motorbancas.
- As much as tough seas over the next coastal waters:
- 1.5 to three.5 m: Batanes, Babuyan Islands, and the northern seaboards of Ilocos Area and Cagayan Valley
- 1.5 to three.0 m: The jap seaboard of Bicol Area, the seaboard of Visayas exterior Gale Warning areas, and the jap seaboards of Caraga Area and Davao Area.
- Mariners of small seacrafts, together with all varieties of motorbancas, are suggested to not enterprise out to sea beneath these situations, particularly if inexperienced or working ill-equipped vessels.
- As much as average seas over the next coastal waters:
- As much as 2.5 m: The remaining seaboards of the nation exterior Gale Warning areas.
- Mariners of small seacrafts, together with all varieties of motorbancas, are suggested to not enterprise out to sea beneath these situations.
TRACK AND INTENSITY OUTLOOK
- GENER is forecast to make landfall within the neighborhood of Isabela or Aurora tonight or tomorrow early morning and should doubtless emerge over the coastal waters of La Union or Pangasinan tomorrow (17 September) late morning or midday. The tropical cyclone will then transfer typically westward over the West Philippine Sea till Wednesday (18 September) earlier than turning northwestward on Thursday (19 September) because it heads in the direction of southern mainland China.
- GENER could exit the Philippine Space of Duty (PAR) between tomorrow late night and Wednesday morning.
- GENER will doubtless cross the landmass of mainland Luzon as a tropical melancholy, though the potential for reaching tropical storm class or slight weakening previous to landfall will not be dominated out. Over the West Philippine Sea, GENER could attain tropical storm class tomorrow night or on Wednesday morning.
Division of Training (DepEd) Class and Work Suspension Guideline:
Listed below are the rules for cancellation or suspension of lessons and work in public faculties from Kindergarten to Grade 12 the place there are typhoons, heavy rains, and floods primarily based on DepEd Order No. 37, s. 2022.
The Division of Training points these Tips on the Cancellation or Suspension of Lessons and Work in Colleges within the occasion of Pure Disasters, Energy Outages/Energy Interruptions, and different calamities to additional information faculties, their personnel, and learners, each inside the private and non-private establishments.

1. Storm
In-person and on-line lessons in any respect ranges are robotically canceled in faculties located in Native Authorities Items (LGUs) issued with Tropical Cyclone Wind Indicators (TCWS) 1, 2, 3,4, or 5 by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Providers Administration (PAGASA).
If the TCWS is issued at a time when lessons have already begun, the college shall instantly droop the lessons and work and ship everybody house whether it is secure to take action. Nonetheless, faculties are obligated to maintain the scholars and personnel safely at school if touring has turn out to be unsafe.
Native Chief Executives shall determine on the cancellation or suspension of lessons in circumstances the place there are sturdy winds in particular or all areas of the LGU however will not be resulting from a storm.

2. Heavy Rainfall
In-person and on-line lessons in any respect ranges are robotically canceled in faculties located in LGUs issued with Yellow, Orange, and Pink Rainfall Warning by the PAGASA.
If the Warning is issued when lessons have already begun, the college shall instantly droop the lessons and work and ship everybody house whether it is secure to take action. Nonetheless, faculties are obligated to maintain the scholars and personnel safely at school if touring has turn out to be unsafe.
Native Chief Executives shall determine on the cancellation or suspension of lessons in circumstances the place there are torrential rains in particular or all areas of the LGU however will not be issued a Heavy Rainfall Alert by PAGASA.

3. Flood
In-person and on-line lessons in all ranges are robotically canceled in faculties located in LGUs issued with a Flood Warning by the PAGASA.
If the Flood Warning is issued at a time when lessons have already begun, the college shall instantly droop the lessons and work and ship everybody house, whether it is secure to take action. Nonetheless, faculties are obligated to maintain the scholars and personnel safely at school if touring has turn out to be unsafe.
Native Chief Executives shall determine on the cancellation or suspension of lessons in circumstances the place there may be flooding in particular or all areas of the LGU however will not be issued a Flood Warning by PAGASA.

4. Earthquakes
In-person and on-line lessons in all ranges are robotically canceled in faculties located in LGUs the place the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHILVOCS) declares an earthquake with PHILVOCS Earthquake Depth Scale (PEIS) V or above.
Native Chief Executives shall determine on the cancellation or suspension of lessons in circumstances the place the PEIS is IV and beneath.
College Principals can cancel lessons at any Depth Scale if of their evaluation, constructing and different buildings are seen to be at risk of collapsing or is discovered to have main injury.
The College Catastrophe Threat Discount and Administration (DRRM) Workforce Head ought to clear the return of scholars and personnel in buildings and different buildings.

5. Energy Outages/ Energy Interruptions/ Brownouts
There will likely be no automated cancellation or suspension of lessons if there are energy outages/energy interruptions/brownouts in faculties. If energy outages/energy interruptions and brownouts have resulted in a poor studying setting, college officers can cancel or droop lessons at their discretion.
6. Changes to Studying Supply On account of Suspensions/Cancellations of Lessons
If canceled or suspended lessons happen, distance studying or make-up lessons shall be carried out to make sure that studying competencies and aims are nonetheless met.
In adherence to the supply of DepEd Order No. 14, s. 2021, learners who miss studying actions resulting from class suspensions led to by varied disruptions like disasters and/or emergencies resulting from pure or human-induced hazards shall be accorded due consideration within the completion of their studying duties.
7. Upkeep of Workforce and Activation of DRRM Groups
Instructing college personnel, together with ALS academics, and non-teaching college personnel in faculties, Division Places of work, Regional Places of work, and the Central Workplace, shall not be required to report back to work, besides those that are mandated to render safety, security, finance, engineering, sanitation, well being, and catastrophe response duties.
Colleges, then again, should at all times be able to implement distant work with measured output.
Central, Regional, and Colleges Division Places of work and faculties shall activate their DRRM Groups to arrange, monitor, and reply to the scenario. DRRM Workforce members, significantly DRRM Coordinators and Engineers, shall be required to report back to work within the aftermath of the catastrophe to proceed enterprise response, early restoration, and reporting primarily based on established DRRM protocols (e.g., an inspection of faculty amenities to vet damages as reported by College DRRM Coordinators, detailed evaluation of broken amenities for functions of growing the Program of Works for infrastructure costing in rehabilitation and restoration plans, and participation in coordination conferences with LDRRMCs). Different DRRM Workforce members could likewise be required to report back to work as wanted.
Officers of personal faculties shall train discretion relative to the work association of their DRRM personnel.
8. Use of faculties as Evacuation Heart or COVID-19 Quarantine and/or Isolation Facility/Vaccination Heart
Colleges shall not be used as quarantine and/ or isolation amenities or vaccination facilities. The authority given to Regional Administrators in permitting faculties to be designated as quarantine and/or isolation amenities/ vaccination facilities beneath Workplace Memorandum OM-Osec-2020-004 (Steering to Regional Administrators for Motion Requests by Native Authorities Items to Use DepEd Colleges and Have interaction DepEd Personnel in Actions Associated to COVID-19), is hereby lifted. Workplace Memorandum OM-OSEC- 2021-03-003 (Use of DepEd School rooms and Different Services as Vaccination Facilities) is likewise hereby repealed.
In different disasters, faculties could also be used as a right away evacuation website that ought to not final greater than fifteen days. LGUs mustn’t use faculties as long-term shelters for evacuees.
9. Conduct of Psychological First Help
As the upkeep of a conducive studying setting requires addressing the rapid wants of affected learners and personnel within the aftermath of disasters, all Colleges Division Places of work, with the assist of Regional Places of work, shall assess Psychological Well being and Psychosocial Help wants and companies and lead the conduct of Psychological First Help (PFA). This shall embrace the mobilization of educated PFA suppliers and companions and if wanted, referral pathways for learners and personnel recognized for additional specialised psychological assist companies. Required well being requirements shall at all times be utilized.
10. Duty of Dad and mom or Guardians
The DepEd nonetheless maintains that folks or guardians are chargeable for figuring out whether or not their kids ought to attend lessons contemplating their bodily and/or psychological well being throughout disasters and calamities. This is applicable even when no order for cancellation or suspension of lessons has been issued.
Nonetheless, it’s also the accountability of the dad and mom or guardians to make sure that their baby can meet up with the wanted competencies that the learners ought to grasp.
For extra info, learn DO 37, s. 2022: https://bit.ly/DO37S2022
*Suspension of lessons for the tertiary stage (faculties and universities) will likely be on the discretion of faculty administration.
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Philippine Climate Updates: Some Lessons Monday, September 16, 2024, have been canceled resulting from Tropical Despair “Gener” that impacts some areas of the Philippines.
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