Northeasterly surface windflow to bring rains over Batanes, Babuyan islands

Batanes and Babuyan Islands will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms brought about by the Northeasterly Surface Windflow with possible flash floods or landslides due to moderate to at times heavy rains, PAGASA reported in its early morning forecast.

Visayas, Zamboanga Peninsula, Northern Mindanao, Palawan, Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms due to the Southwesterly Surface Windflow 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 due to the Southwesterly Surface Windflow and localized thunderstorms with possible flash floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms.

At 3 a.m. on Tuesday, a Low Pressure Area (LPA) was estimated at 1,140 kilometers east of Northern Luzon.

The weather bureau is also monitoring an active tropical cyclone outside the Philippine Area of responsibility (PAR), Typhoon Nesat (formerly Neneng), located at 650 kilometers west of northern Luzon packing maximum sustained winds of 140 kilometers per hour near the center, gustiness of up to 170 km/h, and moving west southwestward at 15 km/h.

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

The rest of Luzon will experience moderate to strong wind speed moving in the southwest to southeast direction while coastal waters will remain moderate to rough.

Visayas and Mindanao, meanwhile, will experience light to moderate wind speed moving in the south to southwest direction while coastal waters will be slight to moderate.

Sunrise will be at 5:48 a.m., sunset at 5:35 p.m. -- BAP, GMA News