Southwest monsoon will bring cloudy skies, isolated rains over Metro Manila, other parts of the country

The southwest monsoon will be affecting extreme northern Luzon on Friday while the effects of the ridge of High Pressure Area will be felt in the rest of Luzon, PAGASA reported in its early morning forecast.

Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms brought about by the southwest monsoon / localized thunderstorms with possible flash floods or landslides due to severe thunderstorms.

Extreme northern Luzon will have moderate to strong wind speed moving in the southwest to west direction while coastal waters is moderate to rough.

The rest of the country will have light to moderate wind speed moving in the southeast to southwest direction while coastal waters will be slight to moderate.

Sunrise will be at 5:28 a.m. while the sun will set by about 6:27 p.m. -- BAP, GMA News