Habagat continues to affect Visayas, southern Luzon

The Southwest Monsoon or Habagat continues to affect southern Luzon and the Visayas region Thursday afternoon, PAGASA has said.

According to the weather bureau's latest bulletin, a low-pressure area (LPA) has developed 1080 kilometers east of extreme northern Luzon.

PAGASA also is continuously monitoring an active tropical cyclone outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR). As of 3 a.m. today, the tropical depression was last seen 1,835km east of extreme Northern Luzon. It is moving northward at 25km/h while packing maximum sustained winds of 55 km/h and gustiness of up to 70 km/h.

The Southwest Monsoon and LPA will bring cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms over the Bicol Region and the provinces of Quezon, Cavite, Batangas, Mindoro, Romblon, Bataan, and Zambales, the agency said.

Partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms, meanwhile, will prevail over Metro Manila and the rest of the country due to the Southwest Monsoon and the localized thunderstorms.

Forecast winds over the country will be light to moderate while coastal water conditions will be slight to moderate.

Minimum temperature was recorded at 26.3°C at 5 a.m. while maximum temperature was at 32.4°C at 2:30 p.m.

The sun will set at 6:27 p.m. It will rise Friday at 5:39 a.m. — Sundy Locus/BM, GMA News