Easterlies to bring cloudy skies, isolated rains over the country

The easterlies will be affecting the country on Tuesday, PAGASA reported in its early morning forecast.

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

As of 3 a.m., the Tropical Depression is located is located 1,640 kilometers east of Mindanao with maximum sustained winds at 45 kilometers per hour with gustiness up to 55 kph and moving in the west northwest direction at 10 kph.

Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms brought about by the Easterlies / Localized Thunderstorms with possible flash floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms.

Wind speed forecast for Luzon is moderate to strong moving in the northeast to north direction while coastal waters will remain moderate to rough.

In the Visayas, wind speed will be light to moderate moving in the northeast to north direction while coastal waters will be slight to moderate.

Mindanao will have light to moderate wind speed moving in the northeast to northwest direction while coastal waters will be slight to moderate.

Sunrise will be 5:44 a.m. while sunset will be at 6:10 p.m. -- BAP, GMA News