The Office of the Civil Defense has started preparations for typhoons that could hit the country in the coming months.

Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr., who also heads the National Disaster Coordinating Council, urged ore than 200 deputized civil defense coordinators to prepare early for disaster.

He said that the government has shifted its policy of disaster response to disaster risk management.

As of Thursday, weather bureau PAGASA said that no typhoon is affecting the country.

However, a diffused tail-end of a cold front affecting Extreme Northern Luzon while an Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is over Eastern Visayas and Mindanao.

PAGASA also said that Extreme Northern Luzon will experience mostly cloudy skies with light rains. Eastern Visayas and Mindanao will have mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms.

The rest of the country will be partly cloudy to at times cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms, it added.