Cloudy skies, scattered rains over southern Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao due to LPA, southwest monsoon

The Low Pressure Area (LPA) was estimated at 555 kilometers east of Infanta, Quezon with southwest monsoon will be affecting southern Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, PAGASA reported in its early morning forecast.

Visayas, Bicol Region, MIMAROPA, Zamboanga Peninsula, Bangsamoro and SOCCSKSARGEN will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms brought about by the southwest Monsoon and LPA. The weather bureau warns residents that flash floods or landslides may occur during severe thunderstorms.

Cagayan Valley, Ilocos Region and Cordillera Administrative Region will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains due to the northeasterly surface windflow with no significant impact.

Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers due to localized thunderstorms and southwest monsoon with the possibility that flash floods or landslides may occur during severe thunderstorms.

The bureau is monitoring an active tropical cyclone located outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR).

Tropical Storm Chan-Hom is located 1,800 kilometers east northeast of extreme northern Luzon with maximum sustained winds of 75 kilometers per hour near the center with gustiness up to 90 kph moving in the north northwest direction slowly.

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

In Palawan, wind speed will be moderate to strong moving southwestward while coastal waters will be moderate to rough.

The eastern sections of central and southern Luzon will experience light to moderate wind speed moving in the northeast to northwest with slight to moderate coastal waters.

For the rest of Luzon, wind speed will be light to moderate moving in the southwest to southeast direction with slight to moderate coastal waters.

The rest of the country will have light to moderate wind speed moving southwestward while coastal waters will remain slight to moderate.

The sun will rise by 5:46 and set by 5:42 p.m. -- BAP, GMA News