Shear Line to bring cloudy skies, scattered rains over Batanes, Cagayan

The shear line will be affecting extreme northern Luzon on Tuesday, according to the morning forecast posted by PAGASA.

Batanes and Cagayan will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms brought about by the shear line with possible flash floods or landslides during moderate to at times heavy rains.

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

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

As of 3 a.m., the tropical depression is located 1,590 kilometers east of the Visayas with maximum sustained winds of 55 kilometers per hour with gustiness up to 70 kph and moving northwestward at a speed of 15 kph.

The wind speed forecast for Luzon is moderate to strong moving in the east to northeast direction while coastal waters will be moderate to rough.

In the Visayas and Mindanao, wind speed forecast is light to moderate moving in the east to northeast direction while coastal waters will remain slight to moderate.

The sun will rise by 6:05 a.m. and set by 5:25 p.m. -- BAP, GMA News