ITCZ, easterlies to bring cloudy skies, rains over parts of Southern Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao

The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) will be affecting Southern Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao on Friday, PAGASA reported in its early morning forecast.

Metro Manila, CALABARZON, MIMAROPA, Bicol Region, Western Visayas, Central Visayas, Zamboanga Peninsula, and the provinces of Isabela, Aurora, Bulacan, Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms brought about by the ITCZ / easterlies with possible flash floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms.

The rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms also due to the ITCZ / easterlies with possible flash floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms.

The wind speed forecast for Visayas and Mindanao is light to moderate moving in the southwest to southeast direction while coastal waters will be slight to moderate.

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

The rest of Luzon will have light to moderate wind sped moving in the southeast to east direction while coastal waters will remain slight to moderate.

The sun will rise by 5:44 a.m.  and set by 6:12 p.m. -- BAP, GMA News