Heavy rains seen over parts of Luzon due to Super Typhoon Rosal —PAGASA

Super Typhoon Rosal will bring heavy, at times intense, rains over parts of Luzon on Wednesday, PAGASA said.

In its 4 a.m. weather bulletin, PAGASA said the provinces of Batanes, Ilocos Norte, Apayao, Cagayan, Isabela and Catanduanes are expected to be battered by the super typhoon's gusty winds.

"Possible flash floods or landslides due to moderate to heavy rains with at times intense rains" are expected, the weather bureau added.

Eastern Visayas, Ilocos Sur, Quezon, and the rest of the Cordillera Administrative Region, Cagayan Valley, and Bicol Region will experience cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms due to Rosal.

Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms as a result of localized thunderstorms.

As of 3 a.m., the center of the eye of Super Typhoon Rosal was estimated at 1,015 km east of Northern Luzon with maximum sustained winds of 215 km/h near the center and gustiness of up to 265 km/h. It is moving west northwestward at 30 km/h.

Sunrise is at 5:49 a.m. and sunset is at 5:43 p.m. —LDF, GMA News