Easterlies to bring cloudy skies, isolated rains over Metro Manila, the rest of the country

The easterlies will be affecting parts of the country on Thursday, PAGASA reported in its early morning forecast.

Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms brought about by the easterlies with possible flash floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms.

The weather bureau is also monitoring an active tropical depression outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR), which was located 1,655 kilometers east of central Luzon with maximum sustained winds at 45 kilometers per hour near the center and gustiness of up to 55 kph and moving northwestward at a speed of 15 kph.

The whole country will experience light to moderate wind speed moving in the east to southeast direction while coastal waters will be slight to moderate.

The sun will rise by 5:43 a.m. and set by 6:17 p.m. -- BAP, GMA News