Moderate to heavy rain expected over west, north Luzon areas

Metro Manila, the Ilocos and Cordillera Administrative Regions, the Batanes and Babuyan Islands, Cavite, Batangas, Bataan, and Zambales would experience moderate to occasional heavy rain due to the southwest Monsoon, PAGASA predicted in a Wednesday morning forecast.

The southwest monsoon would also bring cloudy conditions light to moderate rain and isolated thunderstorms over the rest of the Cagayan Valley Region, and over the Mimaropa, Central Luzon, and Calabarzon Regions.

The Bicol Region, and the whole of the Visayas and Mindanao would meanwhile be partly cloudy to cloudy with isolated rainshowers.

Winds would be strong to gale force from the southwest over the northern, western, and southern sections of Luzon; and over the eastern sections of northern and Central Luzon. Coastal waters along all these areas would be from rough to very rough.

Over the rest of the country, winds would be moderate to strong from the south to southwest with moderate to rough seas. — DVM, GMA News