ITCZ to bring scattered rains, thunderstorms over Mindanao, Eastern Visayas, Central Visayas

A Low Pressure Area (LPA) was spotted by PAGASA early Saturday morning at 585 kilometers east of Davao City and embedded along the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) that is affecting Mindanao.

With the ITCZ, Mindanao, Eastern Visayas, and Central Visayas will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms with the possibility that flash floods or landslides may occur due to severe thunderstorms.

Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers due to the easterlies or localized thunderstorm.

The wind speed forecast for the eastern section of Visayas and Mindanao is moderate to strong and moving in the northeast to north direction while the coastal waters will be moderate to rough.

For northern Luzon the wind speed is expected to be light to moderate moving in the east to southeast direction while coastal waters will be slight to moderate.

For the rest of the country, the forecast wind speed is light to moderate moving in the east to northeast direction while coastal waters will remain slight to moderate. -- BAP, GMA News