Habagat to bring cloudy skies, thunderstorms over Ilocos provinces, Batanes, Babuyan Islands

The effects of the southwest monsoon will be felt across northern and central Luzon on Tuesday, PAGASA reported.

Ilocos provinces, Batanes, and the Babuyan Islands will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms brought about by the southwest monsoon. These areas, PAGASA warned, may experience flash floods or landslides due to moderate with at times heavy rains.

Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers due to the southwest monsoon and localized thunderstorms with the possibility that flash floods or landslides will occur during severe thunderstorms.

The weather bureau continues to monitor the active Tropical Cyclone outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR), Typhoon Bavi (formerly Igme), located 990 kilometers north northeast of extreme northern Luzon packing maximum sustained winds of 140 kilometers per hour with gustiness up to 170 kph moving slowly in the north northwest direction.

The wind speed forecast for the northern and western sections of northern Luzon  is moderate to strong moving southwestward while coastal waters will be moderate to rough.

The rest of Luzon will have moderate wind speed moving southwestward while coastal waters will remain moderate.

Wind speed for the rest of the country is light to moderate moving in the southeast to southwest direction while coastal waters will be slight to moderate.

The sun will rise by 5:44 a.m. and set at about 6:13 p.m. -- BAP, GMA News