Cloudy skies, scattered rains over eastern Visayas, parts of Mindanao due to easterlies

The northeast monsoon will be affecting extreme northern Luzon while the easterlies will affect the rest of the country on Thursday, PAGASA reported.

Eastern Visayas and the provinces of Sorsogon, Surigao, Dinagat, Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms brought about by the easterlies with possible flash floods or landslides during moderate to at times heavy rains.

Batanes and Babuyan Islands will have cloudy skies with light rains due to the northeast monsoon with no significant impact.

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

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

For the rest of the country, wind speed forecast is light to moderate moving in the east to northeast direction while coastal waters will be slight to moderate.

Sunrise will be at 5:57 a.m. while sunset will be at 6:08 p.m. -- BAP, GMA News