Cloudy skies, light rains over Batanes, Babuyan Islands due to northeast monsoon

The northeast monsoon will be affecting extreme northern Luzon on Thursday, PAGASA reported in its early morning forecast.

Batanes and Babuyan Islands will be partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains brought about by the northeast monsoon with no significant impact.

Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms due to localized thunderstorm with possible floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms.

Extreme northern Luzon will have moderate to strong wind speed moving in the northeast to east while coastal waters will be moderate to rough.

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

The sun will rise by 5:59 a.m. and set by 5:24 p.m. -- BAP, GMA News