Quiel exits PAR; tail end of cold front to bring rains to Ilocos, CAR, Cagayan Valley

Typhoon Quiel has exited the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) as of 5 a.m. Saturday, according to PAGASA.

Meanwhile, the tail end of a cold front affecting Northern Luzon will bring cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms over Ilocos Region, Cordillera Administrative Region, and Cagayan Valley.

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

Quiel continues to move away from the country. As of 3 a.m. on Saturday, Quiel was estimated at 560 kilometers west of Coron, Palawan with maximum sustained winds of 120 kilometers per hour near the center and gustiness of up to 150 kph and moving westward slowly.

The forecast wind speed in northern Luzon is strong moving northeastward  while coastal waters will be rough.

The forecast wind speed for the western sections of central and southern Luzon is strong moving in the southwest to southeast direction while coastal waters will be rough.

In the Visayas and the rest of Luzon, the forecast wind speed is moderate moving in the southwest to west direction while coastal waters will be moderate.

In Mindanao, the forecast wind speed is light to moderate moving in the southwest to west direction while coastal waters will remain slight to moderate. —BAP/KG, GMA News