Moderate to heavy rains possible in Metro Manila on Thursday

The southwest monsoon will be affecting the western section of Luzon on Thursday, PAGASA reported in its early morning forecast.

A Low Pressure Area (LPA), meanwhile, was estimated at 1,965 kilometers east of the Visayas outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR).

Due to the southwest monsoon, the Cordillera Administrative Region, Ilocos provinces, Batanes and the Babuyan Group of Islands will have cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms.

Eastern and central Visayas, CARAGA, and the regions of Davao and northern Mindanao will have cloudy skies and scattered rains and thunderstorms brought about by the trough of the LPA.

Meanwhile, Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers due to localized thunderstorms.

The state weather bureau warned that residents in the areas mentioned of possible flashfloods and landslides due to moderate to occasionally heavy rains or thunderstorms.

The coastal water conditions in Luzon is moderate to rough and slight to moderate in the Visayas and Mindanao.

PAGASA is also monitoring two storms that are outside the PAR.

Tropical Storm Bebinca, which is 1,280 kilometers west of extreme northern Luzon, has maximum sustained winds of 75 kilometers per hour near the center, gustiness of up to 90 kph and moving west northwest at a speed of 10 kph.

The other weather system is Tropical Storm Rumbia, which is 1,085 north northeast of extreme northern Luzon with maximum sustained winds of 65 kph near the center, gustiness of up to 80 kph moving in the north northwest at a speed of 15 kph. — BAP, GMA News