Western sections of Northern, Central Luzon expected to have cloudy skies, rains due to Habagat

The Southwest Monsoon or Habagat will bring cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms over the western sections of Northern and Central Luzon, according to weather bureau PAGASA on Saturday.

PAGASA said it was also monitoring Tropical Storm Aere (formerly known as Domeng), which was last spotted 955 kilometers northeast of extreme Northern Luzon, or outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR).

It has sustained maximum winds of 85 kilometers per hour, and gustiness of up to 105 kph. It was moving north northwestward at 30 kph, the weather bureau said.

According to PAGASA’s 4 p.m. weather forecast, the Ilocos Region, Zambales, and Bataan will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms with possible flash floods or landslides due to moderate to at times heavy rains.

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

Meanwhile, the northern and western sections of Luzon will experience moderate to strong wind speeds moving south to southwest while coastal water conditions will be moderate to strong.

The wind speed forecast for the rest of the country will be light to moderate moving southeast to south, while coastal water conditions will be slight to moderate. —Richa Noriega/VBL, GMA News